Solanacées • Solanum lycopersicum

Purple Bumblebee cocktail tomato - Organic

When colour enters the garden, the pleasure begins long before the harvest.

$4.49

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The 'Purple Bumble Bee' cocktail tomato is a modern variety with a strong personality, instantly recognizable by its dark purple fruit streaked with olive green, sometimes turning reddish-brown when ripe. These small, elongated to slightly oval tomatoes offer a spectacular presentation, both on the vine and on the plate.

In the garden, Purple Bumble Bee forms a vigorous and productive indeterminate plant that thrives both in the ground and in containers. Its generous bunches bear cocktail-sized fruit with firm, juicy, and well-balanced flesh, combining sweetness and a touch of acidity.

This variety is distinguished by its consistent production throughout the season and its ability to maintain good flavor even in hot weather. In the local community, Purple Bumble Bee is seen as a tomato of pleasure and discovery, inviting experimentation with shapes, colors, and uses, without ever compromising its reliability in the garden.

• Sowing: Germination requires some experience

• Cultivation: This plant is moderately easy to grow

• Growing season: Warm season

• Growth: Summer growth

  • Annotation:
  • Careful staking and appropriate pruning promote regular production and well-colored fruit. When grown in containers, good watering control improves the consistency of the harvest.

The 'Purple Bumble Bee' tomato is particularly prized for fresh consumption. Its firm texture and balanced flavor make it an excellent tomato for salads, tomato platters, snacks, or dishes where you want to showcase the fruit's color and shape.

It belongs to a more recent tradition of specialty tomatoes, grown as much for their taste as for their aesthetic appeal. In the local area, it naturally finds its place in a gourmet approach to vegetable gardening, where visual diversity becomes an extension of the pleasure of gardening.

Purple Bumblebee cocktail tomato - Organic

$4.49

$4.49

écoumene seeding advice

Seeding type

Indoor seeding

Germination time

7-10 days

Germination temperature

26° to 30° Celsius

Sowing depth

Sowing at a depth of 5 mm

Transplantation

Easy transplantation

Technical

Seeding in clusters

Growing conditions

Hardiness zone

Zone-3b

Distance between plants

50 cm

Distance between rows

90 cm

Optimal brightness

Sun plant

Soil texture

Loose (silty) soil

Soil moisture

Cool, well-drained soil

Soil fertility

Plant very demanding in bacteria-dominant compost

optimal soil pH

Low acidic pH

Average plant height

180 cm

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