Tomato "Tsar Peter" has excellent taste, versatile in use.
The ability to counteract diseases, undemanding agricultural practices make it one of the favorites among the low-growing tomatoes.
Tomato "Tsar Peter": description of the variety and photos
"Tsar Peter" refers to varietal species, not a hybrid. Variety for open ground and light film greenhouses.
Medium ripening. The time of receipt of commercial products is 100-110 days from the moment of emergence.
High-yielding, up to 2.5 kg per plant. The bush is deterministic, about 50 cm high, compact, medium-wide.
A simple type of inflorescence, the first inflorescence is laid above the 3-5 leaf. The peduncle has no joints. Fruits are oval, egg-shaped.
Dense, smooth, do not crack. Saturated red.
The tomato is low seed, has up to three nests. The weight of ripe tomatoes reaches 130 grams with proper agricultural technology. The juice contains 4-5% of dry matter, about 2.5% of sugar.
It has excellent taste. Sweet and mildly sour, with a distinct tomato flavor.
Tomato is universal. Suitable for salads, marinades, pickles, industrial canning. It is suitable for processing into juices, tomato paste, sauces.
Tomato variety "Tsar Peter" is recommended for zoning in the Urals, Transbaikalia, Sakhalin, Primorye, Siberia, Kamchatka, the Amur region and Altai. The author of the variety is the breeder Lyudmila Myazina.
It is best to measure the harvest in wooden boxes, laid in 2-3 layers. It is useful to put along with the immature tomatoes a few red. Ripe tomatoes secrete ethylene and promote the ripening of neighbors.
If necessary it is possible to save peeled green fruits in a dark room for up to two monthswhile maintaining a temperature of 5-8 ° C.
You can see the photo of the tomato "Tsar Peter" below.
Agrotechnology
Tsar Peter tomatoes grow well on fertile, light soils, after cabbage, onions, cucumbers, carrots. Cultivated in seedlings.
To distill the seedlings begin 60-75 days before its landing in the ground. Seeds do not require pre-treatment.
Soil mixture for seedlings is prepared from a mixture of peat and humus or sod land with the addition of superphosphate, wood ash. Sowing is done in rows of 2-3 cm depth. After two or three weeks after germination, when three true leaves appear, the plants are seated keeping a distance of 10-12 cm from each other, and preferably in separate peat-humus pots.
7-10 days before planting, the seedlings begin to harden. Stop watering, take out to the street, a balcony or just open the vents.
Planted in greenhouses in mid-May, in the open ground from the beginning of June.
For a quick warm-up of the soil, experienced growers plant seedlings on the ridges, obliquely.
With this method, a faster and more active formation of the root system occurs.
During the season, tomatoes are moderately moistened with warm water, fed 2-3 times.
Adhere to traditional methods of care for tomatoes - weeding, hilling, mulching.
The advantage of a grade of tomatoes Tsar Peter is resistance to adverse weather conditions.
Ovaries develop even in rainy summer.
The tomato successfully resists to a fitoftor, a virus of a tobacco mosaic. It is not exacting to a pinchling, a garter. Seeds collected from ripe fruit are suitable for planting next year.
The variety of domestic breeding Tsar Peter is perfectly adapted for cultivation in the northern and eastern regions of the country. Demanded for simplicity and versatility.
