The yellow tomato variety 'Golden Currant' convinces with a fast and lush growth. Here you can find out what you need to consider when planting and caring for the Golden Currant tomato.
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Hundreds of the fruits of the 'Golden Currant' hang on the vigorous plants in summer. In this profile you will find out how best to proceed when planting and caring for the yellow wild tomato.
contents
- Golden Currant: profile
- Origin and history of the wild tomato
- Golden Currant: Taste & Properties
- Plant and care for golden currant tomatoes properly
- Harvest and use tomatoes of the 'Golden Currant' variety
Golden Currant: profile
| synonyms | 'Golden Currant' |
| fruit | cocktail tomato; yellow |
| the taste | fruity, mild, sweet and sour |
| maturing time | early |
| growth | Wild tomato, up to 1 m |
| location | open ground, pot |
Origin and history of the wild tomato
From a botanical point of view, the 'Golden Currant' is not one of our cultivated tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum
), but to the closely related species Solanum pimpinellifolium. Therefore, the 'Golden Currant' is also referred to as a wild tomato. However, the yellow color variant probably represents a selection, because the original tomato of this type only produces red fruits. Perhaps this already happened in the homeland of theSolanum pimpinellifolium, in Peru – more precise dates are unfortunately not known.Golden Currant: Taste & Properties
The 'Golden Currant' is extremely vigorous and tends to spread. So it is barely a meter high, but at least as wide and has a rather creeping growth. 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, while being mildly sweet and sour. They have a lot of seeds inside and weigh about one gram. as yellow tomato variety The 'Golden Currant' also looks extremely ornamental in the garden or on the balcony. It's open pod, so it's a strain you can get yours from Get tomato seeds yourself and can sow next year.
Plant and care for golden currant tomatoes properly
The 'Golden Currant' is extremely robust against diseases, even against the dreaded late blight (Phytophthora infestans). It is therefore particularly suitable for cultivation as a outdoor tomato. But also in a large pot or as a Tomato in the raised bed 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 placed 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 flowering. All our soils are climate-neutral and, thanks to their high compost content, do not require any peat at all. Now plant your young plants of the 'Golden Currant' in the soil, press down lightly and water extensively.
The wild tomato 'Golden Currant' does not necessarily need a support. In the field it grows creeping and spreads like this. By the way, you don't skimp on wild tomatoes, because they in turn bear hundreds of juicy small fruits on their many side shoots. It's best to just let them grow. The mulching with plant 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. The undemanding 'Golden Currant' is also happy about a fertilizer application 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 flushed directly into the soil to the roots with the irrigation water. Especially for balcony tomatoes we recommend this type of fertilization, because solid granular fertilizers are difficult to work into the pot.
Harvest and use tomatoes of the 'Golden Currant' variety
The many tiny fruits of the 'Golden Currant' are ideal sweet 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.
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