Gardeners who prefer to grow tomatoes in the open field, suitable large-fruited crop "Honey Spas".
Tomatoes have a pleasant taste, juicy, rich pulp, they are rich in sugars and useful trace elements. Bushes are unpretentious, but need careful formation and reliable supports.
Tomato “Honey Spas”: variety description
The variety of the Russian selection, is intended for cultivation in an open ground, but also cultivation in greenhouses is possible. Preferred for regions with warm, long summers that ensure the full maturation of all ensuing fruits. The last tomatoes can be collected in the stage of technical ripeness for later ripening in the apartment.
Honey Spas - mid-season high-yielding variety. From one bush can be removed 4-5 kg of tomatoes. Indeterminate shrub, about 150-180 cm in height. Requires binding to a vertical support or trellis.Tomatoes need the formation and removal of stepsons. Fruit ripening is gradual, throughout the summer.
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- pleasant taste of the fruit;
- large tomatoes are not subject to cracking;
- good yield;
- resistance to adverse weather conditions;
- harvested tomatoes are stored for a long time.
Among the features of the variety are high demands on the nutritional value of the soil, the need for staining and tying up to strong supports.
Tomatoes “Honey Spas”: characteristics of fruits
- Fruits are large, from 200 to 600 g.
- The shape is rounded heart-shaped,
- color is bright, salmon.
- Smooth, shiny, dense skin and juicy flesh make tomatoes ideal for salads.
- High content of sugars, taste delicate, sweet, with light sourish notes.
- Seed chambers are small and small.
Variety refers to the salad. Tomatoes can be used for cooking side dishes, soups, juices, mashed potatoes. Honey Spas is ideal for diet food, especially useful for people with allergies to red fruits.
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Features of growing
Variety Honey Spas planted on seedlings in early March. Seeds are sown in light soil based on humus and garden soil. It is advisable to take the land from the beds on which adult plants will be planted.
In the phase of the first leaves, young saplings dive into separate pots, and then they feed with liquid mineral fertilizer with potassium and phosphorus. Watering should be moderate, tomatoes do not like stagnant moisture in the soil.
Planting in open ground is carried out in May, after the soil has fully warmed up. At first, young plants can be covered with foil. Landings are not thickened, the optimal landing pattern is 3 bushes per 1 square meter. m
Immediately after transplanting, the plants become attached to the support. Watering moderate, in the intervals of the top layer of soil should be slightly dry. During the season, the bushes are fed several times with complex mineral fertilizers. The bush is formed in 2 stems, all side stepchildren are removed.
Pests and diseases
The grade tomato Honey Spas is rather steady against diseases. It is not susceptible to late blight, gray rot, tobacco mosaic and other viral and fungal diseases.
However, in a greenhouse or open field, tomatoes can be infected from other varieties. To prevent planting, it is recommended to spray phytosporin or other non-toxic bio-drugs.
In the garden, tomatoes are threatened by naked slugs, moths, Colorado beetles, aphids and whiteflies.
Regular spraying with liquid ammonia in water is helpful for flying insects and slugs.Watering the soil with a solution of copper sulphate or potassium permanganate will help kill the parasite larvae. Remove the aphids will help the soap solution, which is treated with the affected plants.
Honey Spas - very productive variety. Enough to plant a few bushes, they will provide all the needs of the gardener. If desired, seeds for subsequent crops can be collected independently, they will give the best germination for 2 or 3 years.
