Lycopersicon esculentum

Tomato contains plenty of fiber, as well as vitamins and lycopene, an antioxidant that lowers your risk of certain diseases.

By adding homegrown fresh mini tomatoes in your salads, cocktails and sandwiches, you're already winning the health game!

Sprouts in: 1 - 3 weeks

Harvest in: 14 - 18 weeks

• Tomatoes love the warmth and hate sudden temperature changes e.g. cool breeze. They do well in hot climates and can even grow in temperatures up to 35 °C / 95 °F. Overall grows best at temperatures between 20 - 35 °C / 68 - 95 °F.

• After sprouting, decrease the number of plants to one per pod to ensure enough space for the plant to grow. You can find more info and a video about thinning here.

• The tomato doesn’t need that much care. You can pinch off any lower leaves which may turn yellow.

• The small yellow blossoms need to be artificially pollinated. For that gently shake your plant or use a clean paintbrush to move pollen from one blossom to the next. You can pollinate with your fingertip as well. A guide to pollination can be found here.

• Tomatoes need some time to ripen. During that time, plant care consists of cleaning the plant from its natural debris.

• It will take 70 to 110 days from planting the pod to harvesting ripe tomatoes. How long it takes to grow tomatoes can also be checked here. 

• Once the tomatoes have ripened, the plant will start to degrade. The pod has fulfilled the purpose of its life - to produce fruits that contain its seeds.

• If your plant starts to bend because of its own weight, you can just stick a chopstick in the soil and support your plant with it. You can find a guide to staking here.

• Mini Tomato has a determinate growth style - so it really is a dwarf cultivar and it does not grow taller.

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” ― Miles Kington