Tomato ‘Indian River’

Indian River is a round fruited variety with thick fleshed, smallish to medium sized, red/orange fruits. It tends to fruit a bit later than many other varieties. This variety is fairly disease resistant.

• Botanical name: Solanum lycopersicum
• Planting: Plant in late spring after frosts are unlikely. Plant 60-100cm apart.
• Care: This tomato is best staked to keep the plant off the ground as it grows. Make sure to plant in well fertilised soil and water regularly.
• Harvest: Harvest when at full colour with the colours bright.
• Diseases: Tomatoes can fall prey to some viral diseases so don’t plant in the same place that tomatoes were growing in the past two years. .
• Cooking: An all purpose variety suitable for everything from slicing to cooking.
• Seed Saving: Tomatoes are self pollinating so you don’t need bees or other insects to pollinate them. That said, although they won’t usually cross with other tomatoes you should plant at least 4 metres away from other tomatoes to make sure. Keep in mind that ‘potato leaf’ varieties will readily cross with other tomatoes so if you are also growing a potato leaf variety it will be best to net either this tomato or that one away from insects to make sure it doesn’t cross with it.

30 seeds