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Magnusa™ 100 Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum 'Magnusa 100'
Height: 12 inches
Spread: 20 inches
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Hardiness Zone: (annual)
Group/Class: Cherry/Grape-Indeterminate
Description:
A superb cascading variety perfect for hanging baskets, containers and windowsills; vigorous vines produce large amounts of deliciously sweet, small red tomatoes; ideal size for packing into lunchboxes or adding to salads
Edible Qualities
Magnusa™ 100 Tomato is an annual vegetable plant that is typically grown for its edible qualities. It produces small clusters of red oval tomatoes (which are technically 'berries') with red flesh which are usually ready for picking from mid summer to early fall. This is an indeterminate variety, which means it produces fruit throughout the growing season. The tomatoes have a delicious taste and a firm texture.
The tomatoes are most often used in the following ways:
- Fresh Eating
- Eating When Cooked/Prepared
- Cooking
- Pickling
- Canning
Planting & Growing
Magnusa™ 100 Tomato will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 20 inches. This fast-growing vegetable plant is an annual, which means that it will grow for one season in your garden and then die after producing a crop.
This plant can be difficult to integrate into a landscape or flower garden, and is best grown in a designated vegetable garden. It should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone over the growing season to conserve soil moisture. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
Magnusa™ 100 Tomato is a good choice for the vegetable garden, but it is also well-suited for use in outdoor containers and hanging baskets. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing the canvas against which the larger thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.
