Matina is always a very popular salad choice, its delicious and early to fruit even grown outdoors. This lovely heirloom will produce golf ball size fruits (weighing 40-70g) that are resistant to splitting. Unusually it is a potato-leafed variety. Don’t just take my word for it…Which? determined this as a Best Buy writing “The fruits retain a faint aroma of the vine and their lovely taste balances stronger sweet, savoury and fresh flavours with mild acidity”. This heirloom is a quintessential tomato in looks and flavour.
This variety is part of our naturally nurtured range, the seed comes from an organic source
SOW: start about 6-8 weeks before the last frost is expected sowing in modules (cover or put on a windowsill). We transplant to pots when large enough to handle and grow on until ready to harden off - plant after frost danger has passed.
GROW: plant in in a sunny sheltered part of your garden or the greenhouse. It is early to set, the earliest of all the outdoor toms. Matina is indeterminate and can grow tall, it will need supporting. It will bloom, set new fruit and ripen fruit all at the same time throughout the season. And those strange leaves… it’s a potato leaf variety!
EAT & ENJOY: savour the flavour straight from the garden, warm from the sun, or add to salads for both delicious flavour and aroma.
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