$2.99
Availability: In Stock
Sku: AOS4200
Pkg Qty: 20

A classic Amish variety from 1895 and still perhaps the best eating tomato ever. Purplish-red Beefsteak-type fruit averages 250-300 g (9-11 oz) in size. Great taste!

Now you can enjoy even more home-grown goodness from Botanus. We’re thrilled to offer a select line of top quality, certified organic vegetable seeds. Aimer’s Organic Seeds is one of Canada’s most respected seed suppliers. Their mission is to provide only the best seeds available from certified organic producers whose quality meet the Canada No.1 standards.

Seeds will be shipped as soon as the order is processed. When ordering seeds please place the order separately from other products.

350 seed/gram. Sow seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before your last spring frost date – use a soil-less growing mix for germinating and growing seedlings indoors. The temperature of the seeding mix should be 21-24 C (70-75 F) for prompt germination. When the seedlings are 4 cm (1.75") high, transplant each into individual peat pots, reduce temperature to 15–18 C (59-65 F) and grow on under lights until hardening off and planting in the garden in late May. Transplant into well-drained organic soil 60 cm (24") apart for determinate varieties and 90 cm (36") apart for indeterminate varieties. Tomatoes need warmth, direct sunlight & a steady supply of water. Keep plants well-watered and apply the water to the soil rather than showering down over the plants. Rotate the crop position in the garden every year and wait three years before using the same patch again for tomatoes. A the end of the season dig out and discard diseased plants - do not compost them. It is also very important to keep plants evenly watered as fluctuations in available soil moisture can lead to a host of problems such as fruit cracking or splitting, irregular fruiting and increasing the chance of blossom end rot developing. Apply a mulch of straw around plants to protect them from soil borne diseases and to help conserve soil moisture.
 High Summer
 Annual
 Start Indoors
 7 to 10
 Full Sun
 Bushy
 Medium (24-32"/60-80 cm)
 Killed by Frost
 80
 Easy
 Heirloom
 Solanaceae
 Solanum lycopersicum
 Certified Organic
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