The tall Hugo tomato is a medium-early and exceptionally productive variety. It is perfectly suited for growing in a greenhouse and, when staked, in the open field. It produces very large berries that weigh up to 200 grams and take on a shape of a conical pepper. These fruit are fleshy, vividly red, and taste great sliced in sandwiches or in salads. Their tasty and compact flesh can also be processed.

Tomatoes need a sunny site, plenty of warmth, proper humidity, and regular fertilizing to develop properly and grow abundantly. Choose a fertile, permeable, humus-rich soil for tomato cultures. Depending on the type of the culture, tomato seeds should be sown from February to end of March. Well-developed seedlings with at least a few true leaves can be transplanted to the permanent site. Sowing for open field cultures should begin in March and in April for greenhouse growing. Transplant seedlings to the uncovered borders after mid-May, in 70-80 x 40-60 cm spacings. Tomatoes are harvested from mid-July until first cold wave in autumn.

Tomato is a popular vegetable that strike with their excellent nutritional value. They constitute a source of easily available vitamins and minerals, with potassium leading the way. Red tomato berries are rich in an important anti-oxidant, called lycopene. The vitamin and mineral composition that tomatoes contain have many beneficial properties: protection from cancer, supporting of digestion processes, and detoxifying of the body.

One package contains 0.1 gram of Hugo tomato seeds. Growing instructions and the sow-by date have been printed on the sachet.

• Use: raw in salads and sandwiches; processed
• Harvest time: mid-July to October
• Growth form: tall
• Site: warm, sunny; sandy-loam, fertile, permeable, humus-rich soil
• Weight: 0.1 g