Tomato 'Vintage Wine'

Solanum lycopersicum

How to grow Tomato 'Vintage Wine'

  • Full Sun

  • Medium

Try to plant in a location that enjoys full sun and remember to water moderately. Keep in mind when planting that Vintage Wine is thought of as tender, so remember to wait until your soil is warm and the night time temperature is well above freezing before moving outside. Ensure your soil is loamy and has a ph of between 5.0 and 6.0 as Tomato is a moderately acidic soil to weakly acidic soil loving plant.

Growing Vintage Wine from seed

Start seeds indoors six weeks before last frost date.

Try to aim for a seed spacing of at least 0.78 inches (2.0 cm) and sow at a depth of around 0.78 inches (2.0 cm). Soil temperature should be kept higher than 12°C / 54°F to ensure good germination.

By our calculations, you should look at sowing Vintage Wine about 42 days before your last frost date.

Transplanting Vintage Wine

Plant to the first set of true leaves to promote strong root growth.

Ensure that temperatures are mild and all chance of frost has passed before planting out, as Vintage Wine is a tender plant.

Harvesting Vintage Wine

This variety tends to be ready for harvesting by late summer.

Vintage Wine folklore & trivia

Introduced by K. Sahin, Zaden B.V., Netherlands, in 1998. This variety came from one of the lines of Brandy Stripe developed by Tom Wagner.