Italian tomato 'Plum Regal'

Tomato · Nightshades · Annual

Italian tomato 'Plum Regal'

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$5.19

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The Italian tomato 'Plum Regal' is a high-value variety for the vegetable garden, combining the rich flavor of sauce tomatoes with remarkable resistance to late blight and early blight. Its dark red, firm, and meaty fruits offer an ideal texture for culinary preparations where depth, hold, and authentic flavor are desired. Highly prized for homemade sauces and salsas, it transforms summer harvests into genuine gourmet reserves for everyday cooking. Its determinate, robust, and productive plant allows for an abundant harvest on a more compact and easier-to-manage structure than indeterminate tomatoes. The fruits are crack-resistant, which further adds to their appeal for gardeners who want to combine reliability, visual quality, and yield. In rich, well-drained soil and generous full sun, it develops sustained and regular fruiting, ideal for concentrated late-summer harvests. Although it can be grown without full staking, light support helps bear its heavy fruits and keep the plants well-ordered. It is a robust, flavorful, and very useful variety, perfect for those who want to grow a high-performing, healthy, and excellent Italian tomato for processing.

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Growing conditions

Watering
Regular
Exposure
Sun
Germination temperature
21 to 24 °C (70 to 75 °F)
Germination (days)
5 to 10 days

Growth & dimensions

Spread
24 to 30 inches (60 to 75 cm)
Height
90 cm to 1.2 m (3 to 4 ft)
Sowing depth
0.2 in (0.5 cm)

Flowering & harvest

Flowering
July to September
Sowing period
6 to 8 weeks before the last frost indoors
Harvest
75 to 85 days after transplanting
Use
Sauces, salsas, preserves, ready meals, fresh produce
Companion plants
Artichoke, asparagus, basil, borage, carrot, celery, celeriac, chives, kohlrabi, watercress, strawberry plant, bean, lamb's lettuce, mint, turnip, parsnip, parsley, leek, radish, sage, thyme
Incompatible plants
Garlic, eggplant, Swiss chard, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, cucumber, squash, shallot, spinach, fennel, corn, onion, pepper, potato