Many summer residents enjoy growing tomatoes, they are used for cooking fresh salads or for winter harvesting. But before you prepare delicious dishes from tomatoes, you need to grow it.
You need to choose unpretentious, tasty and fruitful varieties of tomatoes.
How to choose productive varieties of tomatoes?
In a simple garden, negative external factors act on plants - sudden changes and sudden drops in temperature, cold precipitation, strong wind, it is best to plant early standard tomatoes. They do not need to be stepson, they have strong, low bushes.
In addition, you can plant indeterminate tomatoes, of course, they were created for growing in greenhouses, but using temporary shelters with their help you can grow a normal tomato crop. But to collect many fruits, it is possible only if you plant the most productive varieties of tomatoes that are able to withstand adverse conditions.
Features of harvested tomatoes
Many people think that with an increase in yield, tomato plants require better conditions, supposedly they need to be better protected from diseases and pests, more often and more plentifully watered and fed more. But this is not true, modern selection has created the opportunity not to make a choice between ease of care and the number of fruits, you can just pick a variety that meets these requirements.
Of course, for a plant on which many fruits ripen at the same time, a lot of nutrients and moisture are needed. But you don’t need to water and fertilize them every day, you just need to pour more water on each bush according to the usual schedule, and increase the dose of fertilizers.
Attention! To get ripe tomatoes anywhere in Russia, you need to grow early varieties.
Even the most fruitful late-ripening variety, by its properties, cannot ripen in the middle lane on the bed without additional protection - before the fruits turn red, the first frosts begin.
Choosing fruitful varieties of tomatoes for the middle strip, choose:
• A variety with a short growing season;
• Well enduring severe cooling;
• Relating to varieties created for Russia, or acclimatized in our conditions.
Hybrids bear more fruit, but varietal tomatoes are much better to taste. For this reason, it is necessary to choose a hybrid or variety, taking into account personal preferences.
Varieties of tomato varieties
Before sowing seeds for seedlings and planning the site, you need to study the characteristics of the varieties and choose the most suitable for your conditions, tomatoes are different.
Undersized tomatoes
When growing this crop without stationary shelters, first look at the fruitful varieties of undersized tomatoes. They have many positive qualities - undemanding care, minimal requirements for watering, top dressing, good yield. Beginner gardeners can safely plant them, there will be no difficulties with these varieties. On plants of this type are formed early, and flowers bloom, the crop quickly and amiably ripens.
Tall tomato varieties
Although these are quite demanding plants, they are popular among gardeners, as there are many fruitful honeycombs of tomatoes among them. For tomato bushes of this group, it is necessary to make a strong support, not less than 2 meters high. But these tomato varieties will reward you for caring for a generous and tasty harvest.
The latest varieties of tomatoes
For them, the usual thing is excellent productivity, resistance to most diseases, good taste, increased transportability. Each year, new specimens appear among them, which in many respects are better than the previous ones. If you follow the news, you can replenish your collection with the most productive varieties of tomatoes.
Low Acid Tomatoes
Great taste, and the ability to eat tomatoes for patients with a duodenal ulcer - this will provide you with a sweet taste of tomatoes. They differ from other varieties in fruits with fleshy and juicy pulp, which is ideal for preparing fresh salads and for preservation for the winter.
Varieties resistant to late blight
The scourge of almost all tomato plantations - late blight, is familiar to most gardeners, it is able to quickly destroy the tomato crop. This disease develops in conditions of high humidity, almost destroying sleeping fruits. To prevent these losses, varieties capable of successfully resisting this ailment.
Early ripe tomatoes
For cultivation without special shelters, breeders created undemanding and productive varieties. They develop rapidly, mostly have low growth and are very ill, since, having quickly grown a tomato crop, they already appear to have been removed by the time the diseases have time to infect the plants.
How to care for tomatoes
Harvested varieties of tomatoes are heat-demanding and photophilous plants, they develop best on beds illuminated by the sun's rays. The site should be protected from drafts and gusts of cold wind. The timing of planting seedlings is determined taking into account the climate of your area, the duration of the growing season of tomato varieties and the weather this year.
Where to plant tomatoes
Gardeners living in the southern regions have less problems, they can plant seeds or seedlings simply, without fear of a cold wind or freezing frost. In the middle lane, amateurs need to take into account the advice of agronomists and refine the weather forecast. Seedlings can be replanted on the bed, after they grow by 20-25 cm, the seeds can be sowed taking into account the climate from the second decade of March to the last decade of April.
Caring for tomatoes in the open field is more difficult than when planting in a stationary greenhouse. The reason is the thermophilicity of tomatoes and many fungal diseases of tomatoes. For them, heat and humidity are very important. When landing on a regular bed, these parameters are difficult to control and change, because it all depends on the weather.
To make your life easier, to facilitate the work of care and increase the yield you need:
1. Calculate the appropriate time for growing seedlings and transplanting seedlings in the garden. You can not plant tomatoes very early, especially if there is a risk of frost at night. Of course, the late planting dates will negatively affect the amount of tomatoes received - the last fruits will not have enough time to fully ripen before the first frosts;
2. After transplanting seedlings for about 15 days, it is advisable to cover the plants with a film at night to protect them from night cooling;
3. You can not water the soil too much, this will provoke a disease of plants with fungal diseases;
4. The soil in the aisles needs to be loosened more often, this will facilitate the access of oxygen to the roots of plants;
5. You need to collect the fruits on time so that they do not waste the strength of the plant, which is needed for the growth of other tomatoes;
6. Timely treat plants with compounds against diseases and pests.
These rules will simplify the work and help increase the yield of your tomatoes. Well, special productive varieties of tomatoes, with this care will bring you a wonderful harvest of fresh vegetables.
