Tomato Grape Jelly Bean Red & Yellow
Lycopersicon lycopersicum
Days to maturity: 70
Jelly Bean tomatoes should be in everyone’s garden! These grape-shaped beauties are as delicious as they are fun to eat. Toss in salads & pastas, use for relish trays, or pop them in your mouth like candy fresh from the vine! Large clusters of 15 - 30 fruits over a long harvest period. Jelly Bean Red seeds are dyed red, while the Yellow tomato seeds are natural, so you will know what seed you are sowing produces which color tomato. Provide support for vigorous vines that easily reach 6 feet. Crack resistant and disease resistant.
This packet plants approximately 24 plants when started indoors.
Days to Emerge: 5 - 10 days
Seed Depth: 1/8"
Seed Spacing: A group of 3 seeds every 24"
Row Spacing: 3'
Thinning: When 2" tall thin to 1 every 24"
When to sow outside: Recommended for mild winter climates only: 1 to 2 weeks before average last frost and when soil temperatures are at least 60° F.
When to start inside: RECOMMENDED. 6 to 8 weeks before average last frost.
Harvesting: Harvest tomatoes when fully colored and firm. About 1 month before the average first fall frost, clip all blossoms and any undersized fruit off the plant. This will steer all the plant’s remaining energy into ripening what’s left. If you have a lot of underripe tomatoes near the end of the season, and a frost is approaching, pick them and store them indoors in a single layer away from direct sunlight to ripen.
Artist: Angela Overy