Tomato 'Crokini'

Common name: Tomato 'Crokini'

Description: Crokini is a highly productive cocktail tomato variety bearing long trusses of small to medium, oval-round red fruits with an intensely rich, sweet flavour. Its compact fruits have a satisfyingly firm texture and are produced in impressive quantities throughout the summer, making it one of the most reliable high-yield varieties available to the home grower. Plants are vigorous cordon types that grow well under glass and in sheltered outdoor positions, and the fruits' firm skin gives them good resistance to splitting during periods of uneven watering.

Other benefits: very high yields; firm, crack-resistant fruits; excellent flavour concentration; suitable for greenhouse and outdoor growing

Wildlife attraction: bees and other pollinating insects

Height & spread (approx.) at maturity: 1.5–1.8m x 45cm (cordon grown)

Position: full sun; greenhouse, polytunnel, or warm sheltered outdoor position

Soil pH: slightly acid to neutral (pH 6.0–7.0); fertile, well-drained soil or compost

Moisture: regular, consistent watering essential; high-potash liquid feed once flowering begins; pinch out side shoots regularly

Winter hardiness: frost tender; grow as an annual from spring