Six yellow cherry tomatoes grouped together on wooden table
Six yellow cherry tomatoes held in an open hand
Six yellow cherry tomatoes arranged sparsely on wooden table
One upright yellow cherry tomato on a wooden table
Six yellow cherry tomatoes grouped together on wooden table
Six yellow cherry tomatoes held in an open hand
Six yellow cherry tomatoes arranged sparsely on wooden table
One upright yellow cherry tomato on a wooden table

Seeds of Scotland

Cherry Tomato - Sunviva

£3.00

GROWN IN SCOTLAND by Seeds of Scotland
 

Solanum lycopersicum ~ approx. 25 seeds

Bright yellow indeterminate cherry tomato with sweet and juicy fruits. These are precocious, robust and productive plants originally bred for outdoor cultivation in Germany with high resistance to leaf blight and brown rot. They will grow tall in the polytunnel in Scotland!

This was the first tomato variety with an open source seed license, developed by Culinaris. 

"To the interlocked challenges of concentrated corporate power and use restrictions on seeds, a variety of initiatives around the world have found “open source” and “copyleft” approaches to be a compelling alternative. Open source seeds are seeds, whose distribution and/or sale are accompanied by a formal commitment to preserve the rights of farmers, gardeners, and breeders to freely use, save, replant, and improve them. Critically, this responsibility is extended to their progeny and derivatives. This copyleft feature creates the needed protection for a commons that is open to those who will share and excludes those who will not share. Anyone may freely use open source seed – grow it, propagate it, and breed with it – as long as they agree to pass those freedoms on to others." GOSSI

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Growing Info

Sowing: Sow indoors into small pots or seed flats using a heated propagator or sunny windowsill in Feb/March; April can also work well. Transplant into larger pots once true leaves emerge.  

Spacing: 50cm

Harvest: Jul-Oct

Tips: Aim to transplant into final growing location after the last frost. Tomatoes will do best when grown undercover in Scotland. Tomato plants can produce roots from their stems when in contact with the soil so when transplanting, do so nice and deep; this will help to grow sturdy healthy plants.

Germination: 99% July 2025

Resources

For more information about growing and saving seeds check out the Grow North Growing Guide a fantastic resource produced by Transition Black Isle specifically for growers in the North of Scotland.

Postage

All seeds are posted via Royal Mail 48-hour tracked service. Prices will be calculated at checkout. Please note, due to legislation covering the inspection and sale of seeds, we can only post orders to Scotland, England and Wales. Please read our Shipping Policy for more information.

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