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Dwarf Henry's Bush Cherry Tomato
A variety of cherry tomato
How to sow dwarf Henry's bush cherry tomato: Sow seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before the last expected frost
Sun requirement for dwarf Henry's bush cherry tomato: Plant in Full Sun
A determinate dwarf cherry tomato whose bushes grow only 20 cm by 20 cm, with excellent-flavoured fruit about 1.5 cm across and very heavy crops. Once common around Southland, from the Harrington collection. Good for children's gardens, pots and edges. Transplant at 20 cm, under a cloche if necessary.
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Dwarf henry's bush cherry tomato facts
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For dwarf Henry's bush cherry tomato, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 7°C and a shortest growing cycle of 70 days at its best temperature, about 1155 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your dwarf Henry's bush cherry tomato will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Plant dwarf Henry's bush cherry tomatoes with
borage
basil
carrot
chives
black beauty eggplant
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Solanales Solanaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | prostrate/procumbent/semi-erect |
| Optimal soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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