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Chocolate Cherry Tomato
Sweet gems great for snacking and salads!
Chocolate Cherry Tomato
Sweet gems great for snacking and salads!
Add a gourmet flavor and look to your salads with these sweet little gems! The 1" round, cherry-type tomatoes are rich, brick red with deep chocolate shading. They're perfect for canning, adding to... Read More »
- Zone 3-9
- Height 4 - 6 feet
- Flowering Date NULL
- Sun Exposure Full Sun
- Ship As 2" POT / 3
* Your final payment amount will be calculated at the time of checkout.
Cannot ship to: AE AK CA GU HI NJ OR PR WA
Product Description
Add a gourmet flavor and look to your salads with these sweet little gems! The 1" round, cherry-type tomatoes are rich, brick red with deep chocolate shading. They're perfect for canning, adding to veggie trays or tossing in salads. The indeterminate, open pollinated plants produce fruit throughout the season, until first frost. Grows 4-6' H. Zones 3-9. Three plants. Lycopersicon esculentum 'Chocolate Chef'
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Product Details
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Botanical Name:
Lycopersicon lycopersicum 'Chocolate Cherry' - Form: vegetable, fruit, tomato, seed, open pollinated, heirloom
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
- Height/Habit: 4 - 6 feet
- Spread: 36 - 48 inches
- Spacing: 18 - 24 inches
- Hardiness Zone: 3-9
- Flowering Date: NULL
- Planting Instructions: 18 - 24 inches between plants, 3 -5 feet between rows.
- Winter Care: If early frost threatens in Fall, covering the plants with burlap or blankets at night may help extend the harvest season.
- Shipped: 2" POT / 3
- Growth Rate: Moderate growth rate.
- Shipping Season: Spring
- Flower Color: yellow
- Flower Form: Small yellow flowers.
- Foliage Type: Green foliage.
- Pruning: Prune by cutting out suckers (axillary shoots between the stems and the leaves) to produce larger fruit. Fruit also ripens earlier since the sun can reach it more easily.
- Soil Requirement: Rich, deep, well-drained soil pH 5.5-6.8
- Watering Requirement: Water deeply, plants also repsond well to trickle or drip irrigation. Indeterminate varieties are usually sliced. Harvest by picking when fruit is fully ripe as flavor is better when ripened on the vine.
- Additional Information: Clusters of delicious cherry tomatoes offer a complex sweet & delicious, gourmet flavor. Plants are loaded with these little gems, colored with a unique palette of rich reds & chocolates. Heirloom, open pollinated variety.
- Restricted States: AE AK CA GU HI NJ OR PR WA
Shipping
When will my order ship?
Plants will be shipped at the proper planting time for your area of the country during the shipping timeframes outlined below:
| 2020 Spring Shipping Schedule | |
| Zone | Basil |
|---|---|
| 3A-4B | 5/11/20 - 6/26/20 |
| 5A | 5/11/20 - 6/26/20 |
| 5B | 5/11/20 - 6/26/20 |
| 6A | 5/11/20 - 6/26/20 |
| 6B | 5/11/20 - 6/26/20 |
| 7A & 7B | 5/11/20 - 6/26/20 |
| 8A & 8B | 4/13/20 - 6/26/20 |
| 9A-10B | 4/13/20 - 6/26/20 |
| Last Order Date | All Zones: 6/22/20 |
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