Mountain Vineyard Tomato Seed

Why Grow Mountain Vineyard Tomato?

Sweet & Productive Mountain Vineyard Tomatoes are a premium grape tomato variety that combines exceptional flavor with reliable garden performance. The semi-indeterminate plants are more compact than traditional indeterminate tomatoes, making them an excellent choice for smaller gardens, raised beds, and containers while still producing impressive harvests throughout the season. The elegant, deep crimson-red fruits average about ½ ounce each and offer a rich, well-balanced sweetness that's perfect for fresh eating.

Crack-Resistant Fruits with Excellent Garden Performance Mountain Vineyard Tomatoes produce abundant clusters of flavorful grape tomatoes that hold their quality well both on the vine and after harvest. The fruits feature excellent crack resistance and a long shelf life, making them ideal for snacking, salads, lunchboxes, and sharing with friends and family. Combined with vigorous plants, good disease resistance, and outstanding productivity, Mountain Vineyard is an excellent grape tomato for gardeners who want dependable harvests of delicious, high-quality fruit all season long.

Mountain Vineyard Tomato Growing Tips

• When to Plant Tomatoes

Tomatoes are a "warm season" vegetable that should be transplanted in the garden once the risk of frost has passed in the early spring months. Start the seeds in a greenhouse or seed starting room approximately 6 weeks before your intended in-ground planting date. Give each of these plants approximately 4' or more of space in your garden.

Timely planting is important for those in southern climates, as hot summer weather can be rough on tomato plants. Gardeners in warmer climates should aim to get their plants in the ground as soon as possible in early spring. Gardeners in areas with milder summers have the advantage of a longer tomato season, and don't have to be as timely with planting.

Mountain Vineyard is a semi-indeterminate tomato variety, which means the plants won't get as tall as a traditional indeterminate tomato plant. A tall, sturdy cage is usually sufficient for trellising this variety. You could also use the Florida Weave trellising system if you're growing many of these plants in a straight row.

• How to Fertilize Tomatoes

It's always a good idea to apply some pre-plant fertilizer to the soil when planting tomatoes. We like to add a handful Coop Gro organic fertilizer in the planting hole for each tomato plant. This ensures the plants have the right nutrients to put down roots in their new soil.

Fruiting vegetables like tomatoes will benefit from something called "spoon feeding." This process involves frequent fertilizations at lower concentrations, as compared to fertilizing them heavily once.

Once your tomato plants start to grow after transplanting, feed them every 2-3 weeks with a relatively balanced fertilizer. We like to sprinkle Coop Gro around the plants or make a liquid solution of AgroThrive Fruit & Flower and pour that alongside the plants. Tomato plants will also benefit from "hilling" when they grow to approximately 12-18" tall.

*To learn more about how to hill tomatoes, watch this video.

• Harvesting Tomatoes

While there is much hype about the quality and flavor of "vine ripe" tomatoes, allowing tomatoes to ripen on the vine can be a risky proposition. As they ripen, they become susceptible to attacks from birds or pests like tomato hornworms.

As a result, we prefer to harvest our tomatoes when they start to turn pink. We then set them inside on a counter so they can continue to ripen. This does not compromise the flavor, but it does save our tomatoes from being eaten by pests. If you have minimal pest pressure, feel free to let your tomatoes ripen on the vine.