Choosing tomatoes for your garden, you should pay attention to the variety "Gulliver" - early ripe, productive and undemanding to leaving.
Tomatoes ripen amicably, great for canning and cooking various dishes.
Gulliver Tomato: Description and Characteristics of a Variety
The grade of the Russian selection, is intended for cultivation in greenhouses and film hotbeds. In regions with a warm climate, it is possible to land in open ground. Harvested fruits are well stored, tolerate transportation without any problems.
Gulliver - a high-yielding early ripe grade. Shrubs deterministic, compact, up to 70 cm high. Sheet weight is moderate.
Formation in 2 or 3 stems is recommended, heavy branches with fruits require tying. Tomatoes ripen amicably, fruiting lasts from July to September. The yield is very good, with proper care from the bush can remove up to 7 kg of tomatoes.
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- tasty and beautiful fruits;
- good yield;
- tomatoes are suitable for salads and canning;
- disease resistance;
- undemanding to growing conditions.
There are practically no flaws in the variety. The only difficulty is tying up heavy branches that can break under the weight of the fruit.
Characteristics of the fruit:
- The fruits are large, fleshy, very beautiful.
- The average weight of a tomato is about 200 g, but often larger specimens grow to 800 g.
- In the process of maturation, the color changes from light green to deep red-pink.
- Tomatoes are elongated, cylindrical, with a rounded tip.
- The flesh is tender, juicy, sugary, seed chambers are small.
- Dense glossy peel protects the fruit from cracking.
The variety is suitable for the preparation of salads, soups, sauces, juices. Smooth, thin-skinned tomatoes are good for canning, they are salted, pickled, dried.
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Features of growing
Seeds are sown on seedlings in early March, 60-70 days should pass before transplanting into the ground. Preferred light soil from a mixture of garden soil with peat or humus. Seeds before planting are soaked in a growth stimulator and sown with a depth of 2 cm.
After the sprouts appear, tomatoes need a bright light. In cloudy weather, the seedlings are illuminated with electric lamps. Sprouts watered with warm settled water, preferably from a spray bottle or a small-mesh watering can. After unfolding of 2-3 leaves, a picking is carried out. Seedlings are fed with liquid complex fertilizer, the second feeding is carried out before transferring to a permanent place.
Planted in a greenhouse need in the second half of May. In each well poured on 1 tbsp. spoon complex mineral fertilizers.During the season, the plants are fed 3-4 times, alternating potash and phosphate fertilizers with organic matter.
Watering is carried out every 6-7 days, in between, the top layer of soil should dry out. As the fruits ripen, the branches are tied to a support. For successful formation of ovaries, the formation of a bush in 2 or 3 stems is recommended.
Pests and diseases
The variety is insensitive to fungal and viral diseases. However, during the thickening of the landings, infections are possible. Warn them will help frequent airing, removing the lower leaves on the bush and mulching the soil.
It is useful to spray young plants with phytosporin, pale pink solution of potassium permanganate and copper-containing preparations. Dried or damaged leaves and fruits are immediately destroyed.
In greenhouses, plants can be affected by aphids, thrips or spider mites. To prevent the occurrence of pests will help airing and timely destruction of weeds.
Plants affected by aphids are washed with warm soapy solution; insecticides will help to destroy the mite. Processing is carried out 2-3 times with an interval of several days. After the start of fruiting, it is prohibited to use toxic drugs.
