'Ground Cherry' (Non-GMO) Husk Tomato (Heirloom) - 500mg
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CA$2.49
CA$2.49
(Heirloom Variety)
Golden yellow when ripe, this variety produces exotic bite-sized flavourful fruit. These are so interesting to exhibit to your friends and neighbours. Harvest them when the husks become the same colour as straw.
Golden yellow when ripe, this variety produces exotic bite-sized flavourful fruit. These are so interesting to exhibit to your friends and neighbours. Harvest them when the husks become the same colour as straw.
How To Grow:
1,200 seeds/gram Sow seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before last spring frost date – use a peat moss based growing mix for germination and growing seedings. 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 – reducing temperature to 15–18 C (59 - 65 F) until planting in the garden late May. After hardening off, 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 Apply the water to the soil rather than showering down over the plants. Rotate the crop position in the garden every year. Wait three years to use the same patch in the garden. Dig out and discard diseased plants. Do not compost. 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.
Blooming Season Begins: High Summer
Life Cycle: Tender Perennial Grown as an Annual
Propagation: Start Indoors for an Earlier Crop or Sow Direct
Days to Emergence: 10 to 14
Light: Full Sun
Growth Habit: Trailing
Frost Tolerance: Killed by Frost
Days to Harvest: 65
Degree of Difficulty: Easy
Heritage: Heirloom
Family Name: Solanaceae
Latin: Physalis pruinosa
1,200 seeds/gram Sow seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before last spring frost date – use a peat moss based growing mix for germination and growing seedings. 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 – reducing temperature to 15–18 C (59 - 65 F) until planting in the garden late May. After hardening off, 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 Apply the water to the soil rather than showering down over the plants. Rotate the crop position in the garden every year. Wait three years to use the same patch in the garden. Dig out and discard diseased plants. Do not compost. 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.
Blooming Season Begins: High Summer
Life Cycle: Tender Perennial Grown as an Annual
Propagation: Start Indoors for an Earlier Crop or Sow Direct
Days to Emergence: 10 to 14
Light: Full Sun
Growth Habit: Trailing
Frost Tolerance: Killed by Frost
Days to Harvest: 65
Degree of Difficulty: Easy
Heritage: Heirloom
Family Name: Solanaceae
Latin: Physalis pruinosa