Tomatoes for real gourmets - tomato variety “Strawberry Dessert”: the most complete description and characteristics of the species

Tomatoes Strawberry dessert: variety description

“Strawberry Dessert” is an indeterminate mid-season variety.
Especially loved by connoisseurs of classic tomatoes. The bush is not a standard one; it is better to grow it on a trellis or a high vertical support. The first fruits ripen in July, and tomatoes can be harvested before frost. In year-round heated greenhouses, fruiting is possible until the end of November and beginning of December.

The fruits are large, rounded-flattened, ruby ​​red. The weight of tomatoes is about 300 g, the yield is up to 10-12 kg per bush . The taste is rich, sweetish, with light fruity notes. High content of dry matter and sugars. The fruits are fleshy, with small seed chambers, juicy pulp and thin skin.

The Strawberry Dessert tomato variety is suitable for growing in greenhouses and heated greenhouses. Industrial breeding on farms is possible. In closed soil conditions, tomatoes ripen in all regions of Russia. The harvest is well stored and suitable for long-term transportation.

Note! Strawberry Dessert tomatoes are used for preparing salads and other cold appetizers, juices, and soups. The fruits are also suitable for canning: pickling, pickling, and inclusion in assorted vegetables.

The fruit weight of the variety can be compared with others in the table below:

On our website you will find a lot of useful information about growing tomatoes. Read all about indeterminate and determinate varieties. And also about the intricacies of caring for early ripening varieties and varieties characterized by high productivity and disease resistance.

Taste benefits of fruits

Reviews from gardeners who have already planted Strawberry dessert tomatoes note the excellent taste of the fruits of this variety. Tomatoes have a high content of sugars and dry matter. This combination creates a richly sweet taste of the fruit (like strawberries), with a pronounced aroma characteristic of tomatoes.

The thin skin allows Strawberry Dessert tomatoes to be used for making salads from fresh vegetables. Thanks to its juicy pulp, the fruits are suitable for processing into purees (for adjika, lecho) or for making tomato juice. The large size and fragile skin do not allow salting and pickling tomatoes as a whole.

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Advantages and disadvantages

Among the main advantages of the Strawberry Dessert variety::

• high productivity;
• resistance to major diseases (late blight, gray rot, etc.);
• tasty fruits suitable for salads and canning;
• the extended fruiting period allows harvesting throughout the summer.

Disadvantages of the variety:

• complete ripening of the ovaries is possible only in closed ground conditions;
• a tall variety requires tying and reliable supports.

The variety, as mentioned above, is highly productive. You can compare this indicator with other varieties in the table below:

Features of cultivation

Tomato “Strawberry Dessert” is sown as seedlings at the end of March. Seed germination is average, up to 85% of the seed germinates. After the appearance of the first true leaf, picking is carried out. Supplemental lighting helps to grow seedlings stronger and increases future productivity.

Seedlings are planted in the greenhouse in early May. The optimal distance between bushes is 40 cm, wide row spacing of 60 cm is required. Plantings cannot be thickened; for successful ripening, the ovaries need light and a constant flow of fresh air.

Tomatoes need weekly feeding with complex mineral fertilizers and organic matter. A few days after transplantation, fast-growing bushes are tied to supports or trellises.

In the articles on our website you will find a lot of useful information about fertilizers for tomatoes. Read all about:

• Complex, organic, mineral, phosphorus and ready-made fertilizers.
• How to use ash, yeast, iodine, boric acid, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide as fertilizer.
• How to feed seedlings, tomatoes during picking and what is foliar feeding.

Attention! Tomatoes need to be pinched, removing all lateral shoots and lower leaves.

After the end of the growing season, pinching the growing point is recommended. For successful formation of ovaries, abundant watering, ventilation of the greenhouse and maintaining a temperature of 20-24 degrees are required. When it drops to 10-8 degrees, plant development is inhibited; with a further decrease in temperature, the bushes may die.

The fruits are harvested throughout the summer in the phase of technical or physiological ripeness. Harvested tomatoes ripen well indoors and can be stored for several months.

Care

Tomato Strawberry Dessert (the variety description and photo will explain to gardeners how to care for the crop at the stage of development and growth) when grown in open areas requires irrigation with water, fertilizing with fertilizers and tying to supports to prevent the bushes from breaking under the weight of the fruit.

The plant additionally needs to be protected from various dangerous pests and late blight by regularly loosening the soil cover and removing weeds. When loosening the soil layer, the shovel should be inserted to a depth of no more than 4 cm.

Spraying and watering

Watering tomatoes should be moderate, since both waterlogging and drying out of the substrate will negatively affect the condition of the crop. In case of heavy rainfall, the amount of irrigation should be no more than 1 time per week, and in the hot period it will be necessary to do it 2 times every 7 days.

During constant temperatures of 20 degrees and above, shrubs can be irrigated with water up to 3 times a week. At temperatures that constantly remain above + 20°C, watering should be carried out up to 6 times every 7 days.

During the growing season, the top layer of the substrate must be hilled up and loosened so that the soil mixture does not dry out quickly and the moisture is more evenly distributed throughout the beds. Very rarely, the top soil cover is covered with a mulch layer, which consists of black fibers.

Top dressing

In order for the bushes to quickly set fruit, they should be fed with fertilizers that contain potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen. You cannot fertilize the crop with a solution based on fresh bird droppings or mullein.

It is recommended to add organic matter after re-heating to the area prepared for digging in the autumn.

Trimming

The main difficulty of care is the formation of a bush into 1 stem. To do this, you need to closely monitor the growth of tomatoes and shoot the bushes as the side shoots grow in the leaf axils. Stepchildren that have dried out should not be broken out, but only pinched over 1 flower brush.

To ensure maximum air circulation between plantings, it is necessary to remove foliage under each newly formed cluster. At the end of the summer, the top of the bush can be pinched so that the fruits have time to fill and ripen before the first frost. Some of the fruits will have to be picked green, since they will still ripen in a warm room.

Tying up

The variety requires a garter. It is recommended to do this on a trellis, tying the bushes to a wire stretched vertically. It is permissible to use not only trellises, but also separate stakes as garters. The garter must be done for each trunk and each hand separately.

The material for the garter should be durable and not create discomfort for the branch. Fabric strips up to 2 cm wide are suitable for these purposes. As the bush develops, the garter needs to be adjusted.

Optimal conditions

The culture can survive short-term absence of sunlight, and the humidity level should be moderate. To harvest a large harvest, the region should not have heavy and frequent rains, as well as there should be no frosts or sudden temperature changes.

Diseases and pests

The Strawberry Dessert variety is resistant to major tomato diseases, including viral ones. Slightly susceptible to late blight. To prevent fungal and viral diseases, it is recommended to annually change the soil in the greenhouse and spill the soil with a solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulfate. Periodic spraying with non-toxic biological preparations with an antifungal effect is also useful.

During the fruiting period, plantings can be affected by slugs. They are removed manually; spraying with an aqueous solution of ammonia will help repel pests. It is better to mulch the soil in the greenhouse with a layer of peat or straw; this will protect the plants from stem and root rot.

Tomatoes of the Strawberry Dessert variety are an excellent choice for professionals and amateurs. Once having planted tomatoes on their plot, most gardeners will never part with this variety. If you follow the simplest rules of care and have a good greenhouse, fertile bushes will delight you with a bountiful harvest every summer.

Reviews from gardeners about the variety

Anatoly from Lipetsk says: “Strawberry dessert showed itself very well in greenhouse planting. This year a lot of tomatoes grew, they began to ripen in mid-summer and continued until late autumn. Tomatoes can be used for any purpose, they are versatile.”

Marina supports and adds: “The variety is good for greenhouses. The tomato bushes were not sick with anything. The planting went well and they began to bear fruit early. We made salads with fresh tomatoes all summer. They can also be baked or stewed.”