Tomato 'Gardeners Sweetheart'

Gardener's Sweetheart is an overachiever. It produces trusses as long as your forearm, laden with cute red tomatoes, shaped like anatomical hearts. Unusually for most heirloom varieties, Gardener's Sweetheart has a high resistance to splitting so you can leave whole trusses of tomatoes to ripen before picking them.  The tomatoes have a lovely firm texture (they make great sauces too) and sweet flavour. 

As with many tomatoes, the flavour of this variety is deadened with over-watering. Once plants are established, water the absolute bare minimum (if growing in open ground) and you will be rewarded with the sweetest fruits. 

Gardeners Sweetheart is a vining, (indeterminate) variety which is best grown undercover, grown up strings - either in the ground or in containers.

• Sow: March, with heat (25C)
• Harvest: July-September
• Kitchen: Pairs with savoury (anchovies, capers, cured pork), aromatic (basil, coriander, thyme), spicy (anise, clove, cinnamon), fats (avocado, cream cheese).

Solanum lycopersicum

Approx 20 seeds). We pack seeds by weight, the number of seeds in a packet is an estimate.

Germ Rate: 100% Oct 25