Growing conditions
How to grow sweet tomatoes? To make tomatoes sweet and meaty, it’s not enough to choose the right variety. The soil must have enough nutrients, and there are also other secrets:
- The most delicious are varietal tomatoes, not hybrid ones;
- to add sweetness, fertilizers are added, such as potassium or wood ash, which promote better fruit filling and improve taste;
- During fruiting, you should not apply nitrogen fertilizers, as they promote the growth of greenery;
- the amount of sunlight affects the sugar content; the more sunlight there is, the sweeter the tomatoes will be;
- you should limit the amount of watering during fruiting.
Anyone who grows vegetables in their garden can share a list of the sweetest varieties of tomatoes, a description of which is presented below.
Sugar content of tomatoes
Taste consists of three main indicators:
- varietal characteristics;
- weather conditions;
- agricultural technology.
Varietal features
The ability to accumulate sugary substances is determined at the genetic level. Some varieties are more prone to this than others.
When selecting an assortment for planting, you need to pay attention to this potential indicator.
Weather
Why can even sweet-fruited varieties grow sour? This is due to the developmental characteristics of the tomato plant. The culture comes from tropical America, and to accumulate sugars in the fruits it needs a lot of solar energy and a special water regime.
Tomatoes are always sweeter:
- in a sunny, warm summer - than in a cloudy, rainy and cool summer;
- ripened in the ground - than ripened in a greenhouse;
- ripened on the vine - than ripened in storage.
Sometimes a person is simply unable to influence some natural factors. But the situation can be partially corrected by good plant care.
Agricultural technology for sweet tomato varieties
The owner is able to create the most comfortable conditions for the development of high-quality fruits.
- Acidic soil is first deoxidized, otherwise the nutrition will not be absorbed. Excess alkali is also harmful.
- Tomatoes need a whole range of substances - filling the soil, holes, fertilizing 2-3 times a month (root and foliar). Nitrogen (preferably organic) in moderate quantities, potassium and definitely phosphorus, additionally boron, magnesium. It is BOR that increases the sugar content of tomatoes.
- Metabolism is disrupted due to greenhouse heat; ventilation needs to be adjusted.
- When it gets colder, the roots absorb less well; Foliar feeding helps out.
- Plants should receive plenty of sunlight.
- Watering should be moderate. Mulching is advisable.
- Bushes spend energy on extra shoots, fighting pests and diseases. It is necessary to establish regular planting and carry out prevention against pathogens.
If possible, vegetables should be allowed to ripen on the vine. When ripened in storage, tomatoes often remain with green seeds and pale flesh, and their taste is rather poor.
Variety of choices among small-fruited species
Sweet cherry tomato varieties are very popular. The peculiarities are that the fruits grow in clusters and are convenient to collect; the skin is dense, protects against cracking and allows the crop to be stored for a long time. The most delicious fruits among cherry tomatoes are those that have early ripening boundaries.
The Sweet Meeting tomato belongs to the determinate group of plants. The variety is recommended to be grown in a protected place. The fruits begin to ripen early, after about 96 days. Weight is approximately 18 g. During the ripening period, the smooth fruits turn pink. To increase the yield, you need to form a stem and install a support. Those who plant this variety for the first time note that the plant rarely gets sick.
Tomato Sweet Fountain F1 is an indeterminate hybrid that is recommended to be grown in a greenhouse. It belongs to the early ripening species; it begins to bear fruit after 96 days. Red-scarlet, elongated fruits weigh 20 g. Care requires establishing support and forming the stem. Actively resists fusarium.
The Sweet Sea Buckthorn tomato is an early-ripening hybrid that is grown both in closed and open beds. The fruits can be served after 83 days. Low-growing bushes belong to the determinate group, height is approximately 82 cm. Round orange-colored fruits weigh 30 g. Tomatoes are sugary and contain a lot of beta-carotene. Actively resists diseases.
Sweet kasadi tomatoes are characterized by their small fruit size. An indeterminate plant, the stem stretches up to 190 cm, requires tying and pinching. The oblong fruits begin to turn red early, after 95 days. Weight approximately 25 g. The pulp is sweet, like honey.
Early ripening varieties include sweet baby tomatoes Slivka. The bushes are low-growing, growing only up to 50 cm. One branch can contain about 10 fruits weighing 30 g. The tomatoes are slightly elongated, red-scarlet in color. The skin is dense and prevents early cracking.
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The Sweet Baby variety is productive and early ripening. The first fruits can be tasted after 96 days. Belongs to the indeterminate group, grows up to 190 cm in height. The brush is simply strewn with red, evenly round fruits weighing only 10 g.
The Sweet Tree variety is early ripening. Belongs to the indeterminate group. The height of the bush reaches 185 cm. The fruits are round, burgundy in color, and weigh only 15 g. About 30 pieces can ripen on a branch at the same time. Sweet tomatoes complement any dish.
Varieties of tomatoes for open ground, which are distinguished by their small size and medium limits of fruit ripening.
The Sweet Pearl tomato begins to ripen in about 112 days. The Sweet Pearl tomato is an indeterminate plant and can grow up to 2 meters in height. The Sweet Pearl tomato is suitable for growing both in protected beds and in open areas. Cherry tomatoes weigh only 12 g and are red-burgundy in color when ripe. One brush can hold up to 40 pieces.
Sweet Pia tomatoes are interesting. These are cultivated wild vegetable crops, with the world's smallest tomatoes, the size of peas. They still grow wild in America. When ideal conditions are created, the stem of a wild plant stretches up to 200 cm in height. The brushes are sprinkled with red fruits. They bear fruit until autumn frosts. The plant is resistant to all known tomato diseases.
For open or closed beds, you can choose the Sweet Kiss tomato. In a greenhouse it can grow up to 118 cm, in an open area only 80 cm. It has average tomato ripening limits. A large number of round, smooth, shiny, red tomatoes, weighing approximately 20 g, are formed on one brush. Since the stem is tall, it needs to be shaped and tied.
Sweet cherry peppers can be grown together with tomatoes. Small bushes bear a large number of peppers, approximately 2.5 cm in size.
We've reached the finals - let's sum it up. Tomato 'Sweet Hearts' F1
It was a blessed summer!
There was enough for the vegetables - There was plenty of sunlight and warmth and moisture! So the summer has flown by... And half of the autumn has passed... Today I parted with my tomatoes - I saw them off to rest, said goodbye with tears in my eyes, but with words of gratitude... All season they made me happy: with their growth and development in kindergarten, with success at school, a wonderful harvest in independent life. But nothing can be done, everything comes to an end someday... The time has come to sum up the results and dream of a new meeting with old friends.
Let's talk today about 'Sweet Hearts' F1, remember what they were like this season, compare the manufacturer's characteristics with actually grown plants and their fruits.
An elegant and tasty cocktail hybrid with cute heart-shaped fruits. Of the four bushes, there was only one with heart-shaped fruits. The other three bear ordinary round fruits, medium-sized, similar to cherry tomatoes. Probably what the manufacturer warned about happened - with sudden changes in temperature during flowering, the shape of the fruit may change. But despite the differences, the 'Hearts' on the bush actually looked elegant.
Cherryki Pieces of the morning dawn Among the green branches - They, like stars, burn on the bright dress of summer!
Hearts
The harvest begins at an ultra-early time - 80–83 days after germination. “Hearts” and I did it 10 days later. From germination, April 1, to the beginning of ripening, July 2, 92 days passed. Perhaps the cold snap in the first half of June delayed the growth and development of tomatoes, because they lived under a temporary film cover, and not in a greenhouse.
Plants are determinate, 80-100 cm high, well leafy. The length of the stems of the bush with heart-shaped fruits was about a meter, and they ended in an inflorescence. But the cherry hearts were not going to limit their growth themselves. The tested bush grew up to 180 cm, and the other two were under two meters, and even then on August 20 I pinched the tops of their heads, otherwise they would probably have continued to grow and grow. The manufacturer claims that the height of the plants depends entirely on the biological characteristics of the hybrid. This means that the biological feature of cherry hearts is their height of about two meters. The crossbar to which they were tied is located at a height of 90 cm from the ground, so all the “long-lengths” grew in a horizontal position and felt great, as evidenced by the good harvest of harvested fruits. All the plants were really well leafed. It was necessary to regularly cut the leaves so that they did not cover the fruits that were beginning to ripen.
The fruits of the hybrid are aligned in shape, weight and size within the cluster and the entire plant. Clusters are simple and (rarely) semi-compound with 10-15 smooth fruits weighing 30-40 g. Set rate is high. The binding rate is very high - that's a fact! Even after transplantation in a flowering state, not a single plant dropped its buds, even under unfavorable weather conditions. After pinching all the tops on August 20, the remaining flowers became ovaries - the plants gave up their harvest completely, almost all the ovaries managed to gain weight before the final harvest on September 17.
The fruits are really aligned and ripen together, even in open ground. There were probably equal numbers of simple and semi-complex brushes. But cherry hearts have shorter clusters - from 8-10 fruits, and hearts - from 11-12 or more. The first ripened fruits were not the largest - for cherry ones about 20 g, for hearts - about 40 g. Subsequent fruits were larger, for hearts they reached up to 50 g, for cherry ones - up to 30. So they were quite suitable for the declared sizes. The yield of cherry hearts was 8485 g per test bush. The heart fruit bush produced a more modest harvest of 4769. These two bushes occupied an area of 0.5 m2. It turns out that the yield per 1 m2 is 26508 g. In my opinion, a good harvest for semi-open ground in Siberia. I really want to hope that “Hearts” and I will receive a Pass to the world of high yield .
Cherry brushes
Brush of hearts
In the technical phase of ripeness, the color of the fruit is light green, in the biological phase it is dark pink (raspberry). The pulp has excellent taste and is very sweet. The harvest can be harvested with whole clusters and individual fruits. Yes, at technical ripeness the fruits were light green on both bushes. But in the biological one, only the heart-shaped fruits were raspberry. The cherry fruits had the usual tomato color, and the taste too, which was sour even for ordinary tomatoes. The heart-shaped fruits were sweet and fleshy - everyone who tried them really liked the taste, which is why they sold out very quickly when fresh.
The harvest was done with individual ripened fruits more often than with trusses, because tomatoes ripened in o/g are always tastier than those ripened at home. That is why, while there was a possibility of good weather, only ripe fruits were harvested.
Plants are formed into one stem and all stepsons are removed. Why in one remains a mystery to me. The bush of cherry hearts formed itself into four stems - two main ones and two branching from them. And they were all equally hung with fruits, which is probably why the harvest was so good. If there was only one stem, the harvest would be four times smaller. I formed a bush with heart-shaped fruits into two stems - and the harvest turned out to be almost half that of cherry blossoms, although the bush was hung with even larger fruits. Is this a coincidence? I regularly removed all the stepsons and old leaves. By the end of August, my bushes stood bare with tufts on the top, but in garlands of fruits.
The hybrid is resistant to TMV, ChBP, Alternaria and has increased resistance to late blight. 'Sweet Hearts' are definitely resistant to diseases. For two months, from mid-June to mid-August, they grew in open ground, and not a single plant had late blight, although I did not treat them with any preparations. Perhaps the favorable weather this summer played a certain positive role in this. Therefore, all the fruits collected in mid-September were clean and smooth. I think if it weren’t for the frosts, the ‘Hearts’ would still be growing and bearing fruit.
Before the final gathering
The hybrid fruits are recommended for fresh consumption and canning. I ended up with a division - the cherry tomatoes were used for canning, the hearts - for fresh consumption due to their taste. Although I managed to twist a few jars of hearts - I want to check what taste they will have in canned form.
Cherries - in a jar
Hearts - on the table
The season is over... The entire harvest has been collected, processed and sent for storage. Winter is coming... On long winter evenings, looking at photographs, I will remember my tomatoes again and again and be glad that I got to know them thanks to testing. The season is over... But I really want to take a little rest and start sowing and planting again in order to meet old friends again and shake their green leaves in greeting. Until we meet again, my dear 'Sweet Hearts' F1!
Pink fruits
The sweetest pink varieties of tomatoes include the following names.
Tomato Sweet barrel is recommended to be grown in greenhouse conditions. The Sweet Barrel tomato is characterized by medium limits of fruit ripening; you can taste the harvest after 115 days.
The Sweet Barrel tomato belongs to the indeterminate type. It can reach up to 2 meters. Requires tying and shaping of the stem. A prerequisite is the removal of side branches and old leaves. To increase disease resistance, the Sweet Barrel tomato is treated with special preparations at intervals of two weeks.
There can be 5-6 tomatoes ripening on a bunch. Brushes must be protected from damage. The Sweet Barrel tomato produces pink-colored fruits that weigh about 220 g and are fleshy and sweet inside.
The Pink Honey tomato belongs to the determinate, mid-early group. In greenhouse conditions it grows up to 140 cm, in open beds up to 60 cm. Care requires pinching and tying. Tolerates drought well. Rose honey is famous among gardeners for its huge fruits. Large, heart-shaped tomatoes can weigh 1 kg. The pulp of Pink Honey is fleshy, dense, and sugary. According to reviews, tomatoes are poorly stored and crack quickly.
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Tomato 'Sweet Hearts' F1. Final report
I chose the hybrid Sweet Hearts because of its productivity, unpretentiousness, small height, up to 1 meter, taste and beauty.
Although for some reason different tomatoes grew, the harvest more than paid for all my hopes and even exceeded them! Despite the force majeure freezing, the Sweet Hearts bore magnificent fruit! This is clearly my kind! Sweet hearts Other Sweet hearts Sweet hearts, original color
You can follow a retrospective of the life of tomatoes in previous reports: Sowing, the first real leaf is here: Tomatoes 'Cherrywaterfall' F1, 'Sweet Hearts' F1 and 'Candy Babies'. Sowing, germination, the first true leaf. Growth and development here: Tomatoes 'Cherrywaterfall' F1, 'Sweet Hearts' F1 and 'Candy Babies'. Growth and development of seedlings. Picking and transplanting into greenhouses. Force majeure freezing here: Force majeure: Tomatoes 'Cherrywaterfall' F1, 'Sweet Hearts' F1 and 'Candy Babies' after freezing. Flowering and fruiting here: Tomatoes 'Cherrywaterfall' F1, 'Sweet Hearts' F1 and 'Candy Babies'. Flowering, fruiting, characteristics of fruits, yield.
Let me remind you that I had 5 bushes of Sweet Hearts under a non-woven cloth in the field. The distance between plantings was 40x50 cm; in my understanding, this is about 6 plants per square meter. All the bushes were planted on a “glass of smelt” and half a teaspoon of ABA fertilizer for tomatoes. I didn’t use any manure, mineral water, multivitamins or anything else. During the growing season, potassium and boric acid were used.
After the freeze on May 10, I sowed 3 more to replace the 2 that died. I replaced the non-woven fabric with polyethylene, the 6th bush that formed went to the “extra” shelter under the non-woven fabric and I did not take it into account in the testing figures. Let us briefly recall the main timing of all stages in the table:
Briefly the main figures
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Compliance with the declared characteristics
Let's look at the characteristics stated on the pack: An elegant and tasty cocktail hybrid with cute heart-shaped fruits and...
Here arose... a hitch?.. strangeness?.. misunderstanding?.. The last sentence on the package says: “Due to sudden changes in temperature during flowering, the shape of the fruit may change.” Well, maybe, and also the color and taste, apparently, can... In general, 2 completely different tomatoes have grown. One (out of 6!) bushes actually had heart-shaped fruits, sweet, more raspberry than scarlet, and at first they seemed pink. And this bush stood at the very end of the tunnel, the film opened and closed around it, it was the first to take on all the drafts and ventilation. The remaining bushes produced apple fruits, bright scarlet and sour. I can safely call them technical. The harvest begins at an ultra-early time - 80-83 days after germination. Unfortunately, all the March seedlings froze and 3 tomatoes grew back from the root. Therefore, 127 days passed from germination to the first ripened tomato. From freezing and recovery from the root to the first eaten tomato, 75 days passed. But this is also not a relevant figure, because the roots from which the plants recovered were already large, developed and established in place. At the time of the night frost on May 10, the seedlings were 52 days old...
May 7. These bushes, sown in March, with buds already froze to the very roots on May 10, 2 of them died to death under spunbond 60
As for those sown on May 11, the period from germination on May 14 to the first eaten heart tomato on August 26 was 104 days. In general, it's not fast either. The reason is the cold summer. In addition, on May 25, I planted fragile threads with two small real leaves in the cold clay of the garden. They bypassed the growth in warm, spacious pots, and the weak roots were forced to fight for life.
May 25, reseeded Sweet Hearts
Plants are determinate, 80-100 cm high, well leafy. Determinate ones - it’s a fact that everything was completed perfectly; in this regard, it’s not very clear why all the stepsons should be removed, since the main harvest was on them.
Well leafy - fact! Large dark green leaves like sails, I couldn’t lift my hand to remove them, I almost didn’t remove them, only up to the first brush.
I also did not achieve the stated height. Those that grew from the root preferred to spread along the ground, simply because of the stepsons extending from the frozen stem at an angle of almost 90 degrees. And the thickness of the stems did not allow them to be turned upward; they were too powerful. Thus, the height of the “slate” form of frostbitten tomatoes did not exceed 40 cm.
As for the May sowing, by the time they were removed on September 17, they had just gotten up to speed. They began to ripen only on August 26th. Therefore, these bushes had not yet reached their possible height and were just above the knee, about 60 centimeters. And I didn’t remove the stepsons, why did they need to grow up? After filling the brushes, the tops of the heads began to fall apart and lean towards the ground, garters to the supports did not help much, the heavy bushes found themselves slipping. A lot of stepchildren had to be tied up. And there’s simply nothing to tie from above in the tunnel. The height of the tunnel in which the tomatoes grew is 120 cm. The photo below shows that the Hearts barely reached the middle, that is, 60 cm.
The height of the tomatoes barely reached the middle height of the greenhouse
The clusters are simple and (rarely) semi-compound, with 10-15 smooth fruits weighing 30-40 grams. Here, in my opinion, there was a typo and the “and” was placed on the wrong side of the brackets. My Sweet Hearts most often gave the semi-compound “forks”. A semi-complex brush, this is indicated by the fork splitting into 2 brushes on top. There are 13 fruits in the photo + at least three empty stems from previously removed apple fruits.
Semi-complex brush Simple brushes, of course, were also there, but I still had to try to find a photo Semi-complex and simple brushes (sorry, not entirely) in one frame, on the original Sweet Hearts As for weight, for the first 2-3 weeks I was photographing large tomatoes , then they gradually became smaller. Of course, this is normal. The photo below shows one of the first Apple Hearts.
There were such giants
And it’s already September 3rd, the apples have been in production for more than a month and have begun to get smaller, but the hearts have been in production for only a week and at the same size!
September 3
The binding rate is high. Definitely! A sea of tomatoes splashed in front of me, I’ve never seen anything like this =) The tassels were tied completely, without any gaps! Here I’ll add about the yield, I’m shocked! 12 kilos from 5 bushes! 2400 grams per bush, taking into account that the flowering of the “frostbitten” ones was at least a month late (let me remind you that on May 7 there were already cracked buds, but after freezing I received the first flowers only on June 15), while those reseeded in May bloomed only on July 5, that is More than 1.5 months late! And yet, in a short time, the bushes managed to expel plus or minus 2400 g from the bush! I think the announcement of the series on the front of the pack, “ Pass to the World of High Harvest ,” is absolutely correct!
I didn’t see any gaps in the brushes!
The photo below is September 3rd. I’ve been collecting kilograms of red fruits for a month now, and there’s still a sea of them!
September 3rd, I've been picking red tomatoes for a month now!
In the technical stage of ripeness the color is light green, in the biological stage it is dark pink (raspberry). The fruits are uniform in shape, weight and size within the cluster and the entire plant. Absolutely right! About pink Hearts and about aligned fruits. But the Apple Hearts are bright scarlet, not crimson.
Aligned in size and shape Fruit alignment is best seen in the box
The pulp has excellent taste and is very sweet. This goes for Heart Shaped Hearts. The pulp is really sweet, aromatic, meatier than that of “apples”, there are few seeds and the seed plants are poorly developed and not all. I would say that the variety is more salad-like. Although with such a flurry of productivity, Hearts can also be grown for technical purposes. However, the “apple” hearts are sour and juicy, with a lot of seeds. Of course, they can only be recycled.
Hearts in section
The harvest can be harvested with whole clusters and individual fruits. Fruits are more convenient. They, of course, do not crumble and are quite dense, but I was afraid that they would become overripe. In addition, the slugs were also not averse to eating, especially in September. However, in a warmer climate the brushes will mature faster and the collection can actually be done with brushes. And even my brushes managed to mature 3/4 before I started to panic. Although my raking hands were reaching for the red balls =)))
An example of an almost mature brush
The hybrid is resistant to TMV, ChBP, Alternaria and has increased resistance to late blight. The bushes showed absolutely no pain, only the lower leaves dried out at the edges, but this was due to old age. Although fruit rot was raging in the tunnel in September, it did a great job of trampling on the beans and other plants in the tunnel. As an illustration, here is the last photo before deletion, on September 17th. The leaves are green, almost all clean. There are minor traces of gray rot, this is according to my recollections. I removed the bushes because late blight was noticed in another tunnel. And to risk so many, even if not fully ripe, tomatoes... no one is foolish!
September 17
Recommended for fresh consumption and canning. I agree 100% regarding the Heart Shaped Hearts. “Apples” were used only for technical purposes. The family refused to eat.
Impressions, advice
The tomato made a lot of impressions!
And it frayed quite a few nerves =) Of course, the absolute 100% germination rate is encouraging. I am pleased with the strong, fast-growing seedlings; the sowing date is March 20th - the best time for the North-West. On May 1st there were buds - it's time to get to the beds! Our May is usually warm, from the end of April the summer-like warm weather sets in, then in June it can get colder, but the earth is already warmed up and the tropics are already under the film =) Unfortunately, this summer was an exception. I was pleased with the speed of growth, and, most importantly, I was simply delighted with the yield! I grow myself multi-colored salad beefs, but I also need to find a productive technical variety! The tomatoes behaved unpretentiously, withstood flooding, constantly open (during vacation) and constantly closed film (during prolonged rains). They didn’t complain about the shortcomings of anything; they treated them with potassium and boron “for company.” In September they refused to get sick. And the heart-shaped hearts turned out to be very tasty! Great for salads and sandwiches! And this is sacred for us! We like to go to the forest to pick mushrooms and berries and take sandwiches with sweet tea with us. What kind of sandwich with sausage and without tomatoes? Right! No!
I give the test and give a square meter of the tunnel to Sweet Hearts! Let's plant! The test was successful!
Sweet hearts
At the end of testing, I would like to express my gratitude to Agro for the opportunity to see, touch, and try such an unpretentious and simply super-yielding tomato, Sweet Hearts. Thank you for entrusting me with testing even though I do not live in Russia.
Thanks to the girls, editor-moderators Olya, Marina and Larisa! Thank you for your important and sometimes painstaking work, without you nothing would have happened. Thanks to the 7 Dachas portal for taking care of organizing testing; it’s great that there is a place where you can try something new and chat with like-minded people.
Girls, colleagues - both seven-dacha residents and seven-dacha residents (why am I :)), thank you for your support, experience, attention, comments! It's a pleasure to work with you shoulder to shoulder! Hopefully, before new tests!
Golden fruits
Yellow varieties are very healthy; they contain, in addition to other vitamins, a lot of carotene. Tomatoes are hypoallergenic products. The fruits are fleshy, juicy and most often larger than red tomatoes. Characteristics of common and delicious tomatoes that have been chosen by gardeners for many years.
The Cuban sweet variety grows up to 185 cm in height. The fruits are golden-orange in color, weighing approximately 350 g. Up to 13 kg of harvest can be harvested from one tomato bush. It is recommended to tie and shape a long stem.
Sweet Solano tomatoes are a productive variety. In greenhouse conditions it grows up to 140 cm, in an open area a little lower. It is recommended to form into two stems. At the ripening stage, the fruits turn bright orange with yellow stripes. Weight approximately 120 g.
The Honey Sugar tomato is distinguished by amber-yellow fruits weighing up to 420 g. The shape is rounded and flattened. It is a mid-season species (ripening begins after 116 days). Mandatory stepsoning and shaping is required.
Valentina Redko, collector from Kurgan
The collection includes more than 300 varieties of tomatoes
Slastena is a medium-sized early variety of tomatoes. My annual leader in yield. When formed in a greenhouse in 3-4 stems, it gives maximum yield. The fruits are red, round in shape, weighing 150-300 g, and in the first bunches they can weigh up to half a kilogram! The tomatoes are fleshy, the pulp is sugary, “watermelon” type, juicy, very sweet. The variety is very productive - the fruits grow in clusters of 5-8 pieces. Can be grown in a greenhouse or open ground.
Babushkino is a tall, mid-early variety. The bush is spreading. Formation of 3 stems in a greenhouse. The fruits are flat-round, pink-red in color (red on the outside, pink on the inside), with an average weight of 300-400 g (the first fruits up to 700 g), fleshy. The pulp is oily, juicy, very sweet. The skin is thin. This variety is ideal for salads. The yield is amazing - there are up to 12 fruits in a cluster, equal in size and shape. Grows well both in greenhouses and in open ground.
Watermelon (Watermelon, USA) is a tall variety of medium-early ripening. Potato type leaf. The fruits are flat-round, raspberry in color, with an average weight of 300-400 g, fleshy, fragrant, very sweet. There are few seeds in the fruit. To obtain the maximum yield, the bush must be formed into 3 stems with a mandatory good garter (since the weight of the harvest can break the trunks) and maximum removal of excess leaves. This variety is also my annual leader in yield. Grows better in a greenhouse.
Rich sweet harvest
Among the sweet varieties, you can choose those that are distinguished by their numerous harvests. These tomatoes are suitable for open ground and greenhouses. What varieties can you choose for open ground?
The Sweetfingers tomato begins to ripen after 107 days. Low-growing, compact bushes, reaching a height of 55 cm. Can be grown in both open and closed beds. The elongated fruits with a spout weigh approximately 80 g. The plant develops even in cold weather and is resistant to many diseases.
Tomato Sweet Heart F1 is an early-ripening, high-yielding hybrid; you only need to wait 90 days until ripening. Determinate plant. The bushes are low-growing, about 80 cm. Red-scarlet rounded fruits have a smooth, glossy surface. A distinctive feature is the presence of a spout at the base. Shows resistance to major tomato diseases. It is necessary to tie, remove side branches and form a stem.
Hybrid Premium F1 belongs to an early ripening tomato variety; from germination to fruit formation it can take only 85 days. Low-growing tomato bushes, up to 70 cm high. Tolerates temperature fluctuations well, many diseases are avoided. Requires pinching and formation into two stems. Red, round tomatoes weigh approximately 113 g and have a long shelf life.
The Italian sweet tomato has medium ripening limits. Belongs to the indeterminate group, the stem stretches up to 200 cm. It is recommended to grow in a greenhouse; during growth it requires tying to a support. The best results are obtained by forming two stems. The flat-rounded fruits become red-crimson when ripe and weigh approximately 300 g. They taste sweet, without a hint of sourness.
Description and characteristics of the variety
Tomato Sweet Heart F1 ripens early - 89-95 days from germination. Tomatoes are distinguished by the following characteristics:
- average weight within 150 g;
- the pulp is fleshy, oily, moderately juicy;
- the skin is strong;
- The taste is classic for tomatoes.
It is a determinate hybrid. Forms medium-sized bushes, compact and strong.
Characteristics of shoots:
- height within 90 cm;
- 4-6 fruits per hand;
- leaves are dark green;
- semi-spreading bushes;
- inflorescences are simple.
Tomatoes are intended for universal use. This includes preparing fresh salads and whole canning. Preparing juices and ketchups for the winter.