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Description
A yellow cherry tomato: fresh-sweet, very juicy, and compact.
Specifications
Sowing time: indoors end of March - mid-April
Height: 30-45 cm
Contents: 10 seeds
Height: 30-45 cm
Contents: 10 seeds
In the app
Sowing: 25 March - 30 April
Level 1
sowed indoors
Level 2
seedlings visible
Level 3
seedlings
Level 4
tiny plants
Level 5
plants are repotted
Level 6
first day hardened-off
Level 7
Hardened-off 2 days
Level 8
Hardened-off 3 days
Level 9
Hardened-off 4 days
Level 10
Hardened-off 5 days
Level 11
at final location
Level 12
little plant
Level 13
medium plant
Level 14
flowers visible
Level 15
first tomatoes visible
Level 16
harvesting
Level 17
end of season
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- The app helps you with almost everything you do in your vegetable garden: sowing, tending, and harvesting.
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More about our Yellomato
This compact bush tomato produces masses of yellow cherry tomatoes: fresh-sweet and very juicy. The plant stays small and grows compactly.
Tomatoes are true summer plants that need plenty of warmth. Give this plant a warm, sunny, sheltered spot, either in the middle of your garden box or in an MM-mini.
- Variety: cherry tomato 'Gourmandise Yellow'
- Family: nightshade
- Number per square: 1
- Height: 30-45 cm
- Start indoors: mid-March through April. Plant outdoors in mid-May.
- Position: 2nd or 3rd row. Also ideal for the MM-mini.
- Time to harvest: from 16 weeks
- Germinates: from 20°C in 6-10 days.
What do you need to grow Yellomato yourself?
You start tomatoes indoors first and only move them to your outdoor garden box at the end of May.
Besides the seeds, you need this for indoor seed-starting:
Besides the seeds, you need this for indoor seed-starting:
- MM seed-starting mix or MM coconut seed-starting mix
- MM-Airpots, both the small and larger size
- clear kitchen film (not needed with coconut)
When the plant is ready to go outside, you need this:
- an MM-mini or one 30 x 30 cm square
- MM-Mix or MM coconut mix
- a sunny spot with at least 8 hours of sunlight a day
- MM plant food
How do you sow and grow Yellomato?
Yellomato is in the free Makkelijke Moestuin app. The app explains step by step how to sow, grow and harvest it.
Every vegetable goes through several stages, which we call levels.
The app tells you exactly what to do in each level and regularly lets you check whether your plants are ready to move on to the next level.
So you do not need to know in advance how to grow Yellomato successfully. But if you would like to read ahead, you can do that below.
Level 1: Starting Yellomato indoors
Tomatoes are true summer vegetables and take about six weeks to grow from seed into a plant with ripe tomatoes. That is too long for our climate. The seeds also only germinate at around 21°C.
That is why you start them indoors around the end of March. Move the young plant to your garden box around the end of May. To be safe, raise 2 seedlings, even though you will only need one later.
How to start them indoors:
- Fill 2 small MM-Airpots with MM seed-starting mix or MM coconut seed-starting mix
- Put 1 seed in each pot, 1 cm deep.
- Cover the pots with a piece of clear kitchen film (not needed with coconut seed-starting mix).
- Put the pots in a warm spot in the living room.
Note: MM coconut seed-starting mix does not contain plant food by itself. Before using it, first add one heaped tablespoon of MM plant food.
Levels 2 and 3: Seedlings
As soon as you see the seedlings emerge, remove the film (not needed with coconut mix).
They probably will not both come up at exactly the same time, but after a week they should both have germinated. From then on, put the pots in the brightest spot you have, but preferably not too warm.
They probably will not both come up at exactly the same time, but after a week they should both have germinated. From then on, put the pots in the brightest spot you have, but preferably not too warm.
Keep the mix moist: with traditional MM seed-starting mix, water from above; with coconut, water in the saucer the pot stands in.
Turn the pots a quarter turn every day. This prevents the seedlings from growing crooked.
Levels 4 and 5: Looking after the seedlings on the windowsill
Keeping seedlings healthy on a windowsill for a longer period can be tricky. Make sure they get plenty of light and are not too warm: full sun is good, but keep them below 20°C.
Turn them a quarter turn every day to prevent crooked growth, and keep the mix moist. With traditional MM seed-starting mix, water from above; with coconut, water in the saucer the pot stands in.
After another 10 days or so, move the seedlings into a larger pot with only mix. This lets them make extra roots, gives them fresh food and helps them grow even better.
Turn them a quarter turn every day to prevent crooked growth, and keep the mix moist. With traditional MM seed-starting mix, water from above; with coconut, water in the saucer the pot stands in.
After another 10 days or so, move the seedlings into a larger pot with only mix. This lets them make extra roots, gives them fresh food and helps them grow even better.
Levels 6 to 10: Hardening off
In the second half of May, let the plants get used to outdoor air a little longer each day. In the final level, they spend the whole day outside and you only bring them indoors at night.
Level 11: Plant the strongest tomato plant in your garden box or MM-mini
Once your plants are well used to outdoor air, choose the strongest one and move it to your outdoor garden box. Sprinkle some extra plant food into the planting hole and put the plant in.
Always water tomatoes at the base of the plant, never on the leaves.
Levels 12 to 14: Looking after your tomato plant
During these levels, you look after the plant and will spot the first flowers. After planting it outside, give it some extra plant food every 4-5 weeks (2 tablespoons or 30 ml). Around July, the first tomatoes will start to ripen.
Apart from that, water regularly and remove weeds and unattractive leaves. That is it.
Level 15: Harvesting the first tomatoes
In this stage, about 16 weeks after sowing, the first little tomatoes are ready. In warm, sunny weather this goes quickly; in cooler weather it takes longer.
They stay pale green for quite a while at first, then slowly turn bright yellow. That is when you can pick them.
They stay pale green for quite a while at first, then slowly turn bright yellow. That is when you can pick them.
These little tomatoes taste best when they are properly ripe but still firm. Leave them hanging too long and they become soft and mealy. So try it out a bit.
Ripe tomatoes come off the plant easily: the stalk snaps off without much effort. Or use scissors and cut them from the stems.
If needed, support the plant with a bamboo cane.
What do you use Yellomatoes for?
Use the little tomatoes both raw and cooked. They are delicious in salads, sauces, soups and even stir-fries.
Tomatoes contain vitamins C, A, B1, B2, B6 and B11 (folic acid). They also contain potassium, phosphorus and magnesium.
Tomatoes have been studied a lot, especially lycopene, a compound found in large amounts in tomatoes. Lycopene gives tomatoes their colour and may also help reduce the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Research does show that your body absorbs lycopene better when tomatoes are cooked first. Unfortunately, cooking also reduces much of the vitamin C.
So eat tomatoes both raw and cooked in warm dishes. That way you get the benefits of both.
The final levels
Around the end of August, the days get shorter and the tomatoes take a little longer to ripen.
To help the tomatoes ripen as much as possible, cut away leaves that hang in front of them so the sun can reach them properly. Also remove new flower trusses, because those tomatoes will not ripen anymore. That way all the energy goes to the tomatoes already on the plant.
You can keep harvesting until it gets colder. By then the plant deteriorates quickly, so it is better to remove it from your garden box or MM-mini.
So, what is stopping you from sowing and growing Yellomatoes yourself?
They are super tasty little tomatoes, fairly easy to grow, and the compact plants look beautiful. Plus: with our app and materials it is almost impossible to fail.
