Beefsteak tomato Vintage Wine is a beautiful beefsteak tomato variety that stands out for its unusual colour and rich, aromatic flavour. The large, round to slightly flattened fruits have a pink to red base colour with striking golden-yellow to orange stripes. The fruits generally weigh around 180 - 300 grams and have firm, meaty flesh with relatively few seeds. They grow to approximately 7 - 10 cm in diameter. Vintage Wine has a wonderfully sweet and rich flavour, with a fruity aroma and a pleasant, mild acidity. This makes it an excellent tomato for eating fresh, for example in salads or on bread, while the large, meaty fruits are also well suited for making sauces. The striking colour also looks beautiful in colourful salads. The vigorous plants produce clusters and fruit over a long period. They require sturdy support. The plants have distinctive potato-leaf foliage. The fruits ripen from mid-season to late season. Vintage Wine is an excellent choice for anyone who loves unusual and beautiful beefsteak tomatoes. The combination of striking golden-yellow stripes, firm flesh and a full, sweet and fruity flavour makes this tomato a real eye-catcher both on the plate and in the greenhouse or vegetable garden.
Use these tomatoes in salads, soups, sauces, pasta sauces, oven dishes, stews and in all dishes with tomatoes. Ensure sufficient sun and warmth and support the plant well for the best results. Tomatoes contain a lot of vitamin C and lycopene. These are best absorbed by the body when the tomatoes are heated. Non hardy annual. Height: 180 - 200 cm.
Indoor sowing: February - April
Germination: 6 - 14 days
Germination temp: 20 - 25 °C
Sowing depth: 2 - 3 mm
Transplanting: when the seedlings are about 20 cm tall
Transplanting in garden: in May, after the last night frosts
Plant spacing: 45 - 50 cm
Planting position: sunny - sheltered (greenhouse)
Days till harvest: 60 - 90
Sow indoors from February on in trays filled with moist pottingsoil. Sow shallow and press the seeds gently in the soil, don't cover them with soil, because tomatoes are light germinators. Put the trays away somewhere warm at 20 - 25 °C and cover them with clingfilm or a lid. Keep the temperature as even as possible and don't let the temperature drop during the night. Keep moist, but not to wet to prevent rotting of the seeds. Remove the clingfilm or lid when the seedlings emerge. Transplant the seedlings to seperate pots approx. 10 days after emerging. Put them away a bit cooler at approx. 18 - 20 °C.
Harden the tomatoes of, from the middle of May, when there's no longer any danger of nightfrosts. Put the pots at a temperature of 15 - 18 °C for a week and reduce the amount of water for this week. Put the plants outdoors after this week on a sunny and sheltered plot with well draining soil or put them in a greenhouse. Make sure that there is no longer any nightfrost.
Tomatoes need some maintenance to ensure a good harvest. Give the plants a sturdy support with some sturdy and large bamboo sticks. Remove all suckers that will form in the axils of your plants. Remove all the leaves below the lowest hanging fruits by the end of July till the beginning of August. Remove all the leaves of all plants together with the tops of all plants from the end of August till the beginning of September to ensure the ripening of most of the green tomatoes. Harvest the tomatoes by cutting them with scissors. Tomatoes can't be kept for a long period. Don't keep your harvested tomatoes in the fridge. So use them a soon as possible after harvesting. Tomatoes used in sauces can be kept frozen to store.
