Tomato 'Blue Beauty'
Tomato 'Blue Beauty'
Solanum lycopersicum
Unusually coloured medium sized 100-200gm fruit with almost black shoulders and red bottoms and interior. Mid-season tomato with good flavour, sunburn and crack resistant, on highly productive plants.
- Mid Season
- Indeterminant
- Great production
- 100-200g round fruit with the very dark blue Anthocyanin almost black shoulders and red interior
- Sweet flavour
- Crack and sunburn resistant
Bill gates from Wild Boar Farm creation crossing Beauty King with a blue tomato. Bill Gate’s continues to add to the new tomato range with wonderfully coloured and flavoured varieties. He uses traditional cross breeding techniques, stabalising the tomatoes over many generations.
SEED COUNT: 25 approx.
Seed Raising, Growing and Harvest Information
| Plant Type | Site | Spacing | Height | Sowing Depth |
Days to Germination |
Days to Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tender Annual |
Full Sun | 60cm apart in rows 60-70cm apart |
100-120cm | 3-5mm | 5-10 days @ 21-27 degrees |
80 days |
TRANSPLANT (recommended) – Start transplants 5- 6 weeks before planting date. Sow seeds 6mm deep, 4 seeds/2.5cm. Lightly cover. Keep mix at 23-28°C. Pot up into 5cm or larger cells after first set of true leaves appear. For growing transplants, maintain temperature at around 22°C during the day and 18°C at night
Harden off plants by slightly reducing temperature to 15-18°C and reducing water for 2-3 days before transplanting.
NOTE - Don't start too early—leggy, root-bound, or flowering transplants can cause stunting and reduce early production. Avoid exposing unprotected plants to consecutive nightly temperatures below 7°C.
