Tomato Ildi Indeterminate Vegetable Seeds

Packet Content Size (approx.): 20 

Produces large clusters of up to 75 small cherry yellow, sweet and juicy. Among our favorite for flavor and productivity.

53 days from setting out transplants. Indeterminate.

The earliest, highest-yielding grape tomato in our trials is also the most attractive and delicious! Delectable new Ildi is a sweet grape with a tart underbite -- really satisfying in salads or straight from the vine! These fruits mature quickly and are borne in huge clusters of up to 75! And as if all this weren't enough, they have great staying power on the vine or after picking, lasting for weeks without losing one bit of freshness!

Ildi is easy to grow, quickly forming a 5- to 6-foot vine 16 to 24 inches wide. The fruit sets very early and ripens quickly into gleaming grape-shaped globes (with the occasional pear-shaped fruit). Ildi is delicious, and that's a good thing, because you will get plenty of fruit from this terrific performer! It's one of my favorites, both for flavor and fantastic garden performance!

• Light: Full sun
• Fruit size: 0.5 to 1 inches
• Matures: 53 days from transplanting
• Plant spacing: 36 inches apart
• Plant size: 5 to 6 feet tall
• Plant type: Indeterminate

Heirloom. Long, indeterminate vines produce a seemingly endless supply of mild flavoured, pear-shaped tomatoes all summer. The tiny tomatoes are borne in clusters. This is one of the prettiest tomatoes in the garden. It's beautiful in a salad. Bears dependably through summer weather. Vines can grow 8 feet or longer, so give them a tall support or place to ramble.

• Suitable for protected and outdoor growing.
• Open pollinated, heritage (heirloom) variety.
• For greenhouse cultivation: sow from February to March.
• For outdoor cultivation: sow from March to May.

Sow seeds on the surface of a good, free-draining, damp, seed sowing mix and cover with a fine sprinkling of compost or vermiculite. Place seed trays in a propagator at a constant temperature of around 15-20C (59-68F) until after germination, which takes 7-14 days. When seedlings gain 2 true leaves, transplant into individual 7.5cm (3") pots of compost and grow on at a minimum temperature of 15C (59F).

 

When growing in a heated glasshouse tomato plants may be transplanted at the end of May or when the first flowers are showing, if earlier. Allow 3 plants per growbag, or one per 25cm (10") pot, or plant tomatoes directly into the greenhouse soil.

 

When growing tomatoes outdoors, wait until all risk of frost has passed before transplanting tomatoes. Gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions over 7 - 10 days before planting out from early June when tomato plants are 20cm (8") tall. Choose a sheltered position in full sun on fertile, reliably moist, well drained soil, and transplant at a distance of 60cm (24") apart. Drive a (5') cane into the soil adjacent to each plant to support them as they grow, and tie each main stem to its support with soft garden twine.

Suitable for the vegetable garden, allotments and containers.
Be prepared to water well and supplement feed with high-potash feed during season. Regular feeding is recommended.