Tomato

At Kings, we have one of the best online ranges of tomato seeds available with over 50 varieties to choose from including new F1 hybrids and trusted heritage and heirloom varieties. Why not try and grow your own from seeds, choosing from our range of cherry, plum and juicy beefsteak tomatoes.
Main crops are the most widely grown tomato, and include varities such as moneymaker and alicante.
Cherry tomatoes are small tomatoes which are perfect for adding to salads or cooking whole as part of a dish.
Beefsteak tomatoes are big with a meaty texture, perfect for slicing, grilling or layering in a gourmet sandwich.
Plum tomatoes are long tomatoes commonly grown for sauces and/or canning.

There can hardly be a glasshouse in the country that does not have a few tomato plants growing in it. Nothing tastes quite like a tomato freshly picked from your own garden. The range of colours, shapes and sizes is wide as is obvious from our list of over 30 varieties. Even if you only have a window box you can produce your own tomatoes but they are not without problems. Tomato plants are very delicate, they succumb to disease, they need a fair amount of attention and just smell of a hormone spray from a neighbouring garden or field can result in deformed fruits and plants - but they're still worth the effort. Most of the varieties can be grown outside, in a greenhouse or in polytunnels. Outdoor crops will always be later to start fruiting. The best results come from the F1 hybrid varieties, which have the best disease resistance, including blight resistant!

Sow seeds under glass from January to April 0.5cm (1/4“) deep in pots or trays of good seed sowing compost and lightly cover with a sprinkling of vermiculite or compost. Place containers in a propagator at a temperature of 18-21°C. Prick out seedlings, once large enough to handle, into 9cm (31/2”) pots. Transplant to the greenhouse border soil, or individual large pots, or 3 plants per growbag when 20cm (8”) high. Can also be planted outdoors once all risk of frost has passed 45cm (18”) apart and 75cm (30”) between rows. Some varieties will require sideshooting, removing the small shoots as they appear at the leaf joint. Stake and support plants for the best yields. Take out the growing point when plants reach the glasshouse eaves or after 4-5 trusses if growing outdoors. Water and feed plants regularly with a high potash feed once the first truss has set. Uneven watering can cause fruits to split and black blotches to form on the base of fruits - known as blossom end rot. If growing outdoors try growing one of the blight resistant varieties.
INDETERMINATE TYPES - single stem, remove side shoots
DETERMINATE - bush type, do not remove side shoots
SEMI-DETERMINATE - similar to determinate, slightly taller, do not remove side shoots

We also have a range of organic tomato seeds available.