Lovers of fleshy, juicy and large tomatoes with a delicious taste will surely enjoy the rose-fruited variety "Eagle Heart".
Fruits have a high content of sugars and amino acids, they are ideal for baby food and cooking a variety of dishes, from juices to soups.
Tomato "Eagle Heart": description and characteristics of the variety
The grade of the Russian selection, it is removed for cultivation in greenhouses and film hotbeds. Productivity depends on the nutritional value of the soil and the quality of the seeds. Fruits are well stored and transported.
Eagle Heart is a high-yielding mid-season variety. Indeterminate bush, reaches 1.5 m in height. The plant is powerful, with abundant deciduous mass.Heavy fruits are collected in small clusters of 2-3 pieces. Fruits ripen throughout the season. The yield depends on the care and soil, in greenhouses, on nutrient soil, it is much higher.
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- large and juicy fruits of excellent taste;
- insensitivity to temperature extremes;
- disease resistance.
Among the shortcomings of the variety:
- high demands on the nutritional value of the soil;
- powerful bush needs pinching and tying.
Characteristics of the tomato fruit "Eagle heart":
- Fruits are large, rounded-heart-shaped and pointed tip.
- The weight of individual tomatoes reaches 1 kg.
- In the process of maturation, the color changes from light green to bright pink-red.
- The flesh is juicy, fleshy, sugary, the number of seed chambers is small.
- The dense, but not rigid peel protects fruits from cracking.
- The taste of the fruit is very rich, sweetish with a slight sourness.
Variety refers to the salad, it is recommended for children and diet. The fruits are consumed fresh, used to make soups, sauces, purees and juices.
A photo
Below you can see the tomato of the Eagle Heart variety in the photo:
Features of growing
Seeds are sown on seedlings in March, preferably at the beginning of the month. Before planting, seed is soaked for 12 hours in a growth stimulator or fresh aloe juice.
The soil should be light, based on peat or humus, with the addition of garden or turf land. For greater nutritional value make superphosphate, potash fertilizers and sifted wood ash. After sowing, the soil is moistened and covered with foil. For germination need a stable temperature not lower than 25 degrees. After emergence of shoots it can be reduced.
The seedling is placed in bright sunlight and watered with soft defended water. In the phase of the formation of 1 or 2 of these leaves, picking and feeding of seedlings with complex mineral fertilizer is carried out. Another additional feeding is needed before planting young plants in the ground. Watering should be moderate, tomatoes do not like stagnant water in the soil, but they also do not like drought.
Transplantation into a greenhouse or into the ground is possible in May. The soil is carefully loosened, 1 st. spoon complex fertilizers.
Immediately after transplantation, young plants are tied to supports. Subsequently, you need to tie and heavy branches with fruits, otherwise they will break.
During the season the plants are fed several times. A liquid solution of complex mineral fertilizers is recommended, which can be alternated with diluted mullein or bird droppings. Watering is moderate, only warm water is used, they slow down growth from a cold plant and can shed their ovaries. Fruits are harvested throughout the season as they mature.
Pests and diseases
The variety is resistant to major diseases, but preventive measures are indispensable. The soil for seedlings and adult plants is calcined or treated with a hot solution of potassium permanganate.
Recommended periodic spraying of plants with phytosporin, pale pink solution of potassium permanganate or copper-containing preparations.These measures will help prevent late blight, fusarium wilt and other typical diseases of the nightshade.
"Eagle heart" - interesting and appreciative grade. The more care about the seedlings, the more abundant the crop and the larger the fruit. Owners of greenhouses and greenhouses should plant several bushes, the result will please not only beginners, but also experienced gardeners.