Tomato - Cherokee Purple

Product Info

Sweetly flavored, colorful fruit. Very productive heirloom variety with dusky rose-purple fruit and deep red flesh. The soft flesh has a rich, pleasingly sweet flavor, excellent for slicing. A thin-skinned, beefsteak-type tomato averaging 10 to 12 ounces. Stake or cage for best production. Expect some shoulder cracking. Indeterminate habit.

Water:	Water regularly for 1 week after setting plants in the garden. Tomatoes need at least 1" of water per week, maybe more depending on the weather. Water early in the day, deeply at the roots. Avoid splashing on leaves as moisture retained on foliage overnight could trigger disease on your tomatoes. Do not overwater.
Mature:	85 days
Harvest:	Eat fresh from the garden or can be used for canning. Will ripen to a dusky rose to pink color. Prone to some green shoulders and cracking. You can reduce this damage by picking early and ripening inside. Take a ripe apple and place it in a paper bag with the tomatoes. The apple gives off ethylene gas which will help ripen the fruit.
Exposure:	Full Sun
Spacing:	24"-36" apart
Soil pH:	5.5-7.0

NOTICE: Please note that not all plants are available all the time. The color and size can vary from photographs.