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Green Zebra Tomato
A variety of tomato
How to sow green zebra tomato: Direct seed indoors, transplant seedlings outside after hardening off
Sun requirement for green zebra tomato: Plant in Full Sun
Green Zebra tomatoes are a tomato cultivar created by cross-breeding 4 different heirloom tomato varieties. The fruits are 4-6cm in diameter and have emerald skin with dark green vertical stripes. When ripe, the skin develops a yellow blush. Their flesh is bright green, tangy, and sweet. Green Zebras are great eaten raw or in salads. For larger yield and improved plant health, prune and stake tomatoes.
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Green zebra tomato facts
Lifespan
Height × spread
100cm × 45cmRow Spacing
120cmWhat are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For green zebra tomato, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 7°C and a shortest growing cycle of 70 days at its best temperature, about 1155 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your green zebra tomato will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing green zebra tomatoes
- Sow seeds indoors 6 weeks before planting out
- Harden off the seedlings 1 week before planting out
- Stake or cage the plants 1 week after planting out
- Water deeply 2 weeks after planting out every week
- Pinch out side shoots 3 weeks after planting out every 2 weeks
- Feed with tomato fertiliser 6 weeks after planting out every 2 weeks
- Check for first ripe fruit 1 week before first harvest
- Pull out finished plants 4 weeks after first harvest
Plant green zebra tomatoes with
mint
basil
carrot
chives
black beauty eggplant
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