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The Best Tomato and Basil Seed Collection
The best-ever flavoured tomatoes for salads, sauces and soups, grown and trialled for years by Sarah Raven. More
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The best-ever flavoured tomatoes for salads, sauces and soups. I've grown and trialled these for years. These can all be grown outside in the garden or in the greenhouse.
Collection includes a stylish small seed tin (14cm long x 10cm wide (depth 3cm)) with 5 packets of seed, detailed sowing instructions and tomato recipe sheet .
If you'd like to give this as a gift, we will send it out wrapped in tissue paper in our lovely Sarah Raven gift box. You will also receive a lovely gift card and envelope to enclose with your gift.
The collection contains:
- Tomato 'Noire de Crimee' – juicy salad Beefsteak, my favourite salad tomato and a heavy cropper
- Tomato 'Costoluto Fiorentino' – superb raw or cooked and does well whatever the weather
- Tomato 'Sungold' – the sweetest cherry tomato for eating raw or cooked
- Tomato 'Red Alert' – crunchy and delicious raw or cooked and hugely productive, ideal for a pot or window box
- Basil 'Sweet' (organic) – the strongest, sweetest tasting basil you can grow
For a similar seedling collection, please see our Tomato and Basil Plant Collection.
| Type | Half-Hardy Annual |
| Soil Type | Fertile, Neutral |
| Site | Full Sun, Shelter |
| Moisture | Moist but Well-drained |
| Spacing | 30cm (12in) Basil , 45cm (18in) Tomato |
| Sowing, Seeds, Planting | Sow tomato seeds under cover at end of Feb-April for planting out in April/May. Sow basil seeds from April under cover, or plant out from June when nights are warm. |
| Care Tips | For basil, pinch out growing tips so plants bulk out. This grows well in container pots. For tomatoes, under cover or outside they need staking, and regular watering and feeding for best results. While still small, you also need to pinch out the side shoots. Water regularly to prevent splitting. Can be grown in a greenhouse or outside in a sunny, well-sheltered spot. |
| Harvesting | July - October. For basil, remove individual leaves or stems, don't cut the plant to the ground. Remove flowers as they appear. |
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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- Sow Under Cover/Plant Indoors
- Direct Sow/Plant Outdoors
- Flowers/Harvest
Advice
Slow-cooked tomato with feta and basil salad recipe
Use your oven to 'sun-dry' your tomatoes. This retains their sweetness, does not dry them out too much and preserves them short-term.
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Find out the best way to grow your tomato plants from seed, starting in March if they are undercover and in May if outdoors.
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