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Description

Create a tomato garden that all your friends and neighbours will be envious of. This fabulous collection will provide you with an abundance of delicious toms that are pack full of vitamin C and antioxidants. In this collection you will receive:

Tomato Shirley: A lovely variety of tomato that have a deliciously sweet and rich flavour that is perfect for your sandwiches, salads, and sauces. A versatile all-round tomato, you will have masses of bright red and juicy, medium-sized fruits that can be grown in either unheated greenhouses or outdoors. A cordon variety, they will produce prolifically when their side-shoots have been pinched out. Each plant will provide you with a succession of fruit-laden trusses that ripen from July to October.

Tomato Gardeners Delight: This heavy cropping, super-sweet, large cherry tomato is the perfect choice for both beginners and experienced growers. 'Gardeners Delight' can be reliably grown in either a greenhouse or outdoors, producing trailing vines with approximately 10-14 fruits per truss throughout the summer months. Cropping from early summer through to October, this tomato plant will reward with sweet and rich fruits with lovely and glossy red skins. Very easy to grow, plant your tomato plugs in well-drained and fertile soil, or in special grow bags and or containers where they will need a nice sunny but sheltered spot in the garden.

Tomato Moneymaker: A delicious and very popular variety of tomato that is a firm favourite with many home-growers thanks to its delicious flavour, heavy cropping, and uniformed fruits. They are very easy to grow and with excellent disease resistance, a cordon variety, they will produce prolifically when their side-shoots have been pinched out. Each plant will provide you with a succession of fruit-laden trusses that ripen from July to October.

Delivered as 12 x plug plants (4 of each variety), ready to grow on before planting out.

Top Tips

Feed with high Potash feed once first flowers appear and water well, especially when the fruits begin to develop.
Remove side shoots (shoots that grow where side branches join the main stem) for better crops.

Care Information

Where to grow: Grow in growing bags or large pots or baskets in a sunny, sheltered position. Plants need 6-8 hours of sun a day.
When to grow: Plant as soon as possible, protecting from frost. Plants can be temporarily potted on in to 4in pots and planted out when all risk of frost has passed. Harvest from July depending on variety.

How to grow:

Tomatoes are best grown in a growing bags or large pots of compost where they can be fed and watered regularly.
Plant up into their containers from April onwards. Plant 2-3 plants per growing bag or 1 per pot, burying up to the first set of true leaves. Leggy plants can be buried deeper as the underground stems will root. Water in well and add your plant label.
Grow on for a couple of weeks before placing outside after hardening off. Cover plants with horticultural fleece on any unexpectedly cold nights.
As plants grow, keep them watered every day and feed once a week with a tomato feed.
Support the plants as they get taller with a stake (or leave them to tumble in a basket), tying in the stems.
Pick tomatoes when they are fully ripe.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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