BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine

Start harvesting your cherry tomatoes

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Harvest your cherry tomatoes little and often. The smaller varieties of tomato ripen very fast and are so much tastier when they are fully ripened, so wait for them to reach the perfect colour, then pick them individual­ly. Picking when they are so ripe makes them vulnerable to damage so have a wide, shallow picking basket where they won’t weigh down on each other.

Keep tying in the growth at the top of the plant if you can, as this is where more trusses will form. Feed your plants with liquid fertiliser once a week to keep them strong and encourage continued fruit set along the higher trusses as the growing season comes to an end.

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Tomatoes will pull off easily when they are ripe and ready to harvest

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