How to Sow Gardeners Delight Tomato Seeds

This variety is reliable and prolific whether grown outdoors or in the greenhouse. Height: 200cm (79″). Spread: 50cm (20″).

Tomato Gardeners Delight can be grown outdoors in a sheltered spot with rich, well drained soil, or a 9” pot or a gro-bag. Plant out Tomato Gardeners Delight plants after all risk of frost has passed and when first flowers are showing.

Gardeners Delight, like other tomatoes, is planted out from May and into June, when all risk of frost as passed. If you are planting in a greenhouse or polytunnel, then you can plant out a little earlier than you would do if you are growing your plants outdoors.

Bush varieties don’t need staking and are suitable for growing in pots, some even in hanging baskets. Some varieties are suitable for growing outside, particularly in southern regions. Lycopersicon esculentum ‘Gardener’s Delight’ is a popular and reliable indeterminate tomato, bearing delicious cherry sized fruits.

1. Fill trays with compost and press down.
2. Create a hole half a cm deep in each cell and then sow 2 seeds per cell, you can get rid of the smallest later.
3. Sprinkle fine compost on the top and press down the compost.
4. Then, water your cells and keep it moist as they grow.

tomato (cherry) ‘Gardeners Delight’ Once all danger of frost has passed, plant into greenhouse borders or into growbags, or harden plants off and plant outside in rich soil in a sunny spot. Tie in to supports and pinch out side shoots: keep well-watered and feed weekly once flowers form.

You DO NOT remove the side shoots. This group include varieties like ‘Moneymaker’, ‘Alicante’, ‘Sungold’, ‘Gardeners Delight’ and ‘Black Krim’ This group contains the largest number of varieties that most people grow in greenhouses and you DO remove the side shoots from these plants.

Gardeners Delight Overview Official Plant Name Solanum lycopersicum ‘Gardeners Delight’ Plant Type Fruit Native Area N/A (Cultivated) Hardiness Rating H1C Toxicity Toxic except for the fruits

Which is why it is a popular choice, and has long been a popular choice, for many UK gardeners. Gardeners Delight was first introduced to British gardeners by breeders and seed producers Benary. They sold it to a number of seed suppliers in Britain over thirty-five years ago.

Gardeners usually obtain around 6-8 fruits per truss, which are great for enlivening a summer salad. Like other tomatoes, Gardeners Delight is usually sown indoors or under cover between late January and April.

Gardeners Delight is an open-pollinated variety, not an F1 hybrid, so should come true from seed. As a heritage variety, saving your own seeds should yield plants that are the same as the parent, evolving just slightly.