Vegetables
Tomato 'Marmande'
Solanum lycopersicum
The Marmande tomato produces impressively-sized, unevenly-shaped fruit. A good tomato for salads, cooking or frying. Easy-to-grow inside or out and requires minimal training. Side shoots should be removed for best size yield.
- Position
- Full sun
- Height
- 1.5m
- Spread
- 50cm
Growing calendar
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Sow indoors
Harvest
Sowing & growing
Sow inside from Feb-April in moist, seed compost. Place on warm windowsill or in propagator at 18-21°C for germination. When large enough to handle, prick out into individual pots. Grow on in greenhouse or outside once all risk of frost has passed.
Aftercare
Fruit trusses may need to additional support to keep them off the ground. Water and feed with high potash liquid feed once first truss has set.
Gallery
Ref. SET005