Perfect Harmony Tomato
Perfect Harmony Tomato is a space-saving heirloom variety bred specifically for small-space growers and container gardeners. Developed by the volunteer-led Dwarf Tomato Project, it produces high yields of large, flavourful beefsteak-style fruits on compact, sturdy frames.
Fruit weights range from 50 to 500 grams. Flavours are rich, distinctly tart, and deeply savoury with a lemon-like tang. Plant height is 1.2 to 1.5m tall.
Thanks to Patrina for sending me the seed.
When to Sow: Start on a heat mat ideally in late August to October (Cool Climate) and plant out after frost risk and soils around 10 deg at night (after 7 days consecutively).
Can start earlier if planting in a hothouse. 8 weeks on average from sowing to planting if using a heat-mat.
Cool Climate: mid JUL – NOV (Heat mat)
Temperate: SEP – DEC
Sub – Tropical: MAR – DEC (Humidity induces disease)
Tropical: mid APR to JUL (Humidity induces disease)
- Tomatoes enjoy lower humidity and 20-30 degree daytime temps and night times above 8 to 10 degrees. Plant out only after risk of frost (protect if late frost)
Spacing – 50cm
- Back to Tomatoes
- How I Grow my tomatoes post
- Tomatoes on the Wiki
- The wild ancestor of the tomato is native to western South America. These wild versions were the size of peas. Aztecs and other peoples in Mesoamerica were the first to have domesticated the fruit and used in their cooking.
- The Spanish first introduced tomatoes to Europe, where they became used in Spanish food.
- In France, Italy and northern Europe, the tomato was initially grown as an ornamental plant. It was regarded with suspicion as a food because botanists recognized it as a nightshade, a relative of the poisonous belladonna.
- This was exacerbated by the interaction of the tomato’s acidic juice with pewter plates.
- The leaves and immature fruit contains tomatine, which in large quantities would be toxic. However, the ripe fruit contains no tomatine.
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