The yellow tomato variety ‘Golden Currant’ impresses with its fast and lush growth. Here you can find out what you have to consider when planting and caring for the golden currant tomato.
Zdenek Sasek / Shutterstock.com]
Hundreds of the fruits of the ‘Golden Currant hang on the vigorous plants in summer. In this profile you will find out how to best proceed with the planting and care of the yellow wild tomato.
contents
- Golden Currant: Wanted poster
- Origin and history of the wild tomato
- Golden Currant: Taste & Characteristics
- Plant and care for golden currant tomatoes correctly
- Harvest and use tomatoes of the ‘Golden Currant’ variety
Golden Currant: Wanted poster
| Synonyms | 'Golden currant' |
| fruit | Cocktail tomato; yellow |
| taste | fruity, mild, sweet and sour |
| Ripening time | early |
| growth | Wild tomato, up to 1 m |
| Location | Outdoors, pot |
Origin and history of the wild tomato
The ‘Golden Currant‘, in German ‘Golden currant‘, is botanically not one of our cultivated tomatoes (
Solanum lycopersicum), but to the closely related art Solanum pimpinellifolium. This is why the ‘Golden Currant‘ is also known as the wild tomato. The yellow color variant is still a selection, because the original tomato of this type only produces red fruits. Perhaps this already happened in the homeland ofSolanum pimpinellifolium, in Peru - unfortunately no more precise dates are known.Golden Currant: Taste & Characteristics
The ‘Golden Currant‘ is extremely vigorous and rather broad. It is barely a meter high, but at least as wide and has a rather creeping habit. The leaves are deep green, delicate and comparatively small. It forms a large number of side shoots on which the small fruits hang in panicles. The ‘Golden Currant‘ is an early variety, it can be harvested continuously from mid-July to the end of October. She becomes the Currant tomatoes counted. The small golden yellow fruits taste fruity, but mildly sweet and sour. They have a lot of seeds inside and weigh about one gram. as yellow tomato variety The ‘Golden Currant‘ is also extremely decorative in the garden or on the balcony. It is seed-proof, so it is one of the strains you would get yours from Obtain tomato seeds yourself and sow next year.
Plant and care for golden currant tomatoes correctly
The ‘Golden Currant‘ is extremely robust against diseases, even against the dreaded late blight and brown rot (Phytophthora infestans). Therefore, it is particularly suitable for cultivation as a Field tomato. But also in a large pot or as a Tomato in the raised bed it brings in a rich harvest and is undemanding and easy to care for. From mid-May, after the ice saints, the ‘Golden Currant‘ can be set outside. When planting for the terrace or balcony, the largest possible pot should be selected. Fill the planter with a potting soil adapted to the needs of tomatoes, for example ours Plantura tomato and vegetable soil. It contains nutrients that stimulate and promote growth and flower formation. All of our soils are climate-neutral and, thanks to their high compost content, do without peat at all. Now plant your young plants of the ‘Golden Currant in the ground, press lightly and water extensively.
The wild tomato ‘Golden Currant‘ does not necessarily need a support. In the open it grows crawling and spreads in this way. By the way, wild tomatoes are not stingy, because on their many side shoots they in turn bear hundreds of juicy little fruits. The best thing to do is to simply let it grow rampant. That Mulching with vegetable materials under the wild tomatoes promotes soil life and reduces evaporation. In summer you save liters of water and at the same time improve the soil structure. Even the undemanding ‘Golden Currant‘ will be happy to receive fertilizers from June. With an organic liquid fertilizer like ours Plantura tomato and vegetable fertilizer, that falls Fertilizing tomatoes very easy. About once a week, the nutrients are washed directly into the soil at the roots with the irrigation water. Especially for Balcony tomatoes we recommend this type of fertilization, because solid granular fertilizers are difficult to incorporate into the pot.
Harvest and use tomatoes of the ‘Golden Currant’ variety
The many tiny fruits of the ‘Golden Currant‘ are ideal snack tomatoes. However, the high-yielding variety usually provides so many of its fruity tomatoes that they are not all eaten fresh. Halved and dried, the ‘Golden Currant‘ is a real delicacy, but it also brings variety to the table as yellow tomato soup or yellow ketchup.
One Mixed cultivation of tomatoes can keep the plants healthy or even increase the yield. We reveal which vegetables and herbs go well with tomatoes and which species are not good neighbors for the nightshade plant.
