Description
Oaxacan Jewel is the earliest of our beef tomatoes.
The variety is less vigorous but productive, with a good, pleasant mild taste.
Oaxacan Jewel is potato-leaved, the fruits ripen from yellow to orange to red.
Location requirements
Moderate requirements for fertilization and watering, sunny and airy and protected from direct rain.
Sowing
From mid-February. The aim is to plant flowering and frost-free. Sowing depth 0.2 – 0.5 cm.
Germination
18 – 24 °C, 10 – 14 days.
Plantation
After the first leaf has formed, prick out and pot up. The plant should be covered with soil just below the cotyledons to allow sufficient roots to form.
Distances
60 x 60 cm or in a 10 liter bucket.
Harvest
From end of June.