Tomato Shirley Grafted Vegetable Plants are a much-loved variety, famed for their heavy yields of well-flavoured fruits. An outstanding hybrid, they are early to mature, very reliable and indeterminate, producing generous crops over a long growing season.

Grafted vegetable plants offer gardeners greater vigour and much more resistance to soil-borne pests and diseases, such as nematodes – particularly useful if you grow in greenhouse border soil each year, where crop rotation is somewhat limited. The grafting process brings together the best attributes of two different plants – a species rootstock and a hybrid variety.

The hybrid variety is grafted to the species rootstock to produce plants which are strong and vigorous, resulting in more fruits and heavier yields. Although traditionally greenhouse grown, they will also crop well when placed in a warm and sunny position outdoors – even more reason to grow them.

Supplied as well-established plants in 9cm pots. Please note – do not remove the plastic grafting clip. It will fall off naturally as the plant grows.