When you have to choose a variety of tomatoes for growing on your plot, many factors influence your choice: the purpose of the crop, the yield, the capriciousness or unpretentiousness of the crop, the simplicity or difficulty in caring. The variety, which will be discussed, has a high yield, resistance to stress, versatility, easy care. It's all about Rio Grande Original Tomatoes.
- Description of the variety
- Bushes
- Fruit
- Characteristic
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Growing seedlings
- Timing and Substrate Requirements
- Seed preparation and planting
- Seedling care
- Landing in open ground
- Peculiarities of care
- Pest and Disease Varieties
Description of the variety
And gardeners, and professionals, farmers often choose the grade "Rio Grande".
Bushes
Shrubs deterministic type. They are compact, nerazladistye, up to 70 cm in height. They do not need tying and staking.Have a moderate amount of foliage, characteristic of the form of tomatoes.
Fruit
The fruits are folded in clusters of 8-12 pieces, their shape is oblong, oval. Have a thick skin. Fruits are dense, fleshy, inconspicuous, with a small number of seeds.
The color of the ripe fruit is deep red. Their weight - up to 150 g, but more often - medium-sized. The taste is a traditional tomato with sourness.
The first ripening of fruits occurs 120 days after sowing. Further formed almost throughout the summer. 
Characteristic
Characteristics of tomatoes "Rio Grande" is practically positive in all respects.
Fruits easily transfer long transportations. They are well kept. Plucked in the green, ripen, and in optimal conditions remain as long as 2-3 months.
In use - universal. These tomatoes are eaten in a different form:
- raw
- canned whole;
- canned in processed form;
- dried;
- dried
The variety can grow in both southern and temperate latitudes, that is, it is resistant to difficult climatic conditions. Even if the weather does not allow all the fruits on the bush to ripen, they ripen well.Advantages and disadvantages
Like any other variety, Rio Grande has a number of advantages and disadvantages.
Grade advantages:
- unpretentiousness to the climate;
- unpretentiousness to conditions (a field, a kitchen garden, the greenhouse, a balcony);
- ease of care;
- drought tolerance;
- resistance to diseases and parasites;
- the possibility of mechanical cleaning;
- trouble-free transportation;
- high yield;
- fruit density;
- fleshy fruit;
- suitability for conservation;
- multiple processing;
- long preservation of fruits;
- maturity of tomatoes removed from the bushes;
- great taste, etc.
Lack of one: malachnostiGrowing seedlings
Tomato "Rio Grande Original" - is a universal culture in terms of growing. You can grow tomatoes by planting seeds immediately in the ground, and you can plant seedlings.
This will delay fruit ripening in time, but it will save your time and energy in early spring.
Timing and Substrate Requirements
Before planting seedlings need to prepare the soil in tanks. It should be a light loose mixture (in the ratio 3: 2: 1):
- turf ground;
- humus;
- small amount of sand.
Seed preparation and planting
Some experienced gardeners recommend placing the seeds in wet gauze for a day before planting.
It is better to cover the container with a film and place it in a warm place for 5-7 days. Do not disturb without the need. During this period, seedlings appear. After the seeds have germinated, the film must be removed.Seedling care
Care of seedlings of tomato seedlings is simple. First of all, it is necessary to provide good illumination, favorable temperature and humidity.
Boxes with seedlings need to put into the light, otherwise the shoots will “pull” and these “strings” may never gain strength. Favorable temperature for seedlings is 22-25 ° C.
It is necessary to moisten the soil as the top layer dries. To avoid the stress of cold water for sprouting, water for irrigation needs to be defended and reheated slightly. 
When the third leaf appears, the plants need to be stopped, spreading out in separate containers.
Transplantation to produce with an earthy ball. After that, fertilize with mineral fertilizers. By planting in open ground seedlings need to prepare.
Firstly, 10-15 days prior to the landing, begin hardening. Every day for 2-3 hours tomatoes out in the street, if the weather permits. Secondly, before planting it is necessary to feed the complex fertilizer.
Landing in open ground
Planted seedlings can be planted in a greenhouse as early as April, and into open ground at the end of May (in colder areas at the beginning of June). The main thing is to pass the time of night frosts.
To do this, from each individual tank you need to remove the plant along with the earthy clod and place it in the prepared hole in the garden. Next, you need to water and sprinkle the tomato with earth, slightly condensing it. 
Planted seedlings need to scheme 50 × 50.
Peculiarities of care
In the open ground, tomatoes need watering, weeding, loosening and feeding. Rio Grande tomato bushes are indestructible, so it is easy to weed them without damaging the branches. Weeding will have at least 3-4 times per season.
Tomatoes should be watered moderately, regularly, although the variety is drought-resistant. Since watering is done at the root, after a day the soil around the bush needs to be loosened.
After 2 weeks after planting seedlings need fertilizing phosphate fertilizer. When the flowers and the first "berries" - potash.
Pest and Disease Varieties
The variety is relatively resistant to diseases and pests, but still there are troubles. The most common diseases of tomatoes are white and gray rot, late blight. 
Preventing the soil with a solution of copper sulfate will help prevent the disease, and Fitosporin will help to cure the plant. Among the pests of tomatoes can be called aphid and naked slugs. A solution of household soap will help to fight with aphids, and with slugs - a solution of ammonia.
The variety "Rio Grande" is so easy to care that even beginner gardeners will be able to grow it. Even if you somehow made a mistake, somewhere overlooked, you can still get a good harvest.
