This has always been my favourite beefsteak tomato. Good flavour, nice shape and easy to grow. It is a little early to plant seeds yet unless you have heat in your greenhouse. Without heat once your seedlings appear you will need to cover them with fleece every night right through till the end of April when all risk of frost has passed. Nothing is more depressing than going out in the morning to find a lot of limp frost bitten little seedlings. They never recover and you have to start all over again.
I have cut and pasted below instructions for planting Dombito tomato, although these instructions are suitable for almost any greenhouse variety of tomato.
- Description: Cordon (Indeterminate). An extremely popular beefsteak variety producing high quality, semi greenback free fruits averaging 250-270g with a distinctive and delicious flavour. The plants are early to mature, compact in habit with resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Cladosporium and Fusarium. Suitable for a heated or cold greenhouse.
- Sowing Instructions: Sow in late winter for heated greenhouse cultivation or early spring for the cold greenhouse. Sow 6mm (¼in) deep in a good compost. Germination usually takes 6-14 days at 24C (75F).
- Growing Instructions: Transplant the seedlings when large enough to handle into 7.5cm (3in) pots and grow on in good light and cooler conditions. When 15-23cm (6-9in) tall plant out 45cm (18in) apart in a prepared greenhouse border soil, growbag, 23cm (9in) pots or ring culture.
- Aftercare Instructions: Remove side shoots as they appear and pinch out the growing point when 5-7 trusses have been formed. Feed regularly once the first truss has set.
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