Light
Full sun in an open position.
Learn how to care for your green friend
Sungold Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum · Sungold Tomato
Vegetables · Planned variety
Meet your green friend.
Sungold produces orange cherry tomatoes on vigorous plants.
A space where it can thrive
Grow as a cultivated garden crop in a bed or suitably sized container. The illustrated nursery pot is a presentation, not a recommendation for the mature plant’s root space.
Ask about availabilityAvailability, size, pot and price will be confirmed in store. Pictures illustrate the plant type.
Studio illustration. Appearance varies with age, variety and growing conditions.
Your care routine
Watering
Keep moisture steady as fruit develops; direct water at the root zone.
Soil & drainage
Warm, fertile, well-drained soil or a large draining container.
Fertilizer
Prepare the bed with mature compost. This crop benefits from adequate nutrition during active growth; follow a suitable vegetable fertilizer label and your soil test rather than adding an arbitrary dose.
Temperature
Frost-tender crop: start with warmth and move outside only after cold weather has passed.
Planting
Start indoors in bright light and warmth. Transplant when nights stay warm; install stakes or a cage early.
Harvest
Pick at the variety’s ripe colour rather than assuming every tomato turns red.
Through the seasons
Support tall shoots and maintain airflow. Protect ripening fruit from prolonged autumn wet and cold.
When your plant needs help
- Pick when tangerine orange, not red, and support the long vines for repeated small-fruit harvests.
Pets & little ones
Harvest only the appropriate ripe or prepared edible part. Do not eat leaves or stems. Keep plant material away from children and pets; never use a photo suggestion alone as an edibility check.
Grow with your neighbourhood store.
Independent, family-owned and right here in Uptown New Westminster. Browse before your visit and keep this guide handy at home.
Visit The Golden BazaarCare references
Guidance is a starting point. Adjust watering to your plant, pot, light and season; follow fertilizer labels and check outdoor cultivar hardiness.