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*2006* This variety available mail order *2006*
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Plant Details
  Tomato Cerise Lycopersicon esculentum
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Organic Cultivation

Description
A miniture tomato popular with children and cocktails, this sweet tasting fruit grows in abundance. Also in yellow.
Culture
Grow on the plugs in pots before planting out after all risk of frost has passed in a sunny and sheltered place. Prick out the growing tip after the 4th truss to promote ripening.Will need supporting by tying at 30cm spacing. Pinch out side shoots when they are about 2.5cm long. Remove a few leaves below each fruit truss as they become yellow - but not too many. Water regularly.
Harvest/Use
Harvest individual fruits or thecomplete truss as fruits ripen. Great for picnics.