Volgograd tomato is a super find for summer residents

Tomatoes are a fairly common crop. Modern breeding offers gardeners a huge variety of varieties, which can be very difficult to choose from. For experienced gardeners, this is not a problem: they have been doing this for more than one year and have already identified the best for themselves. And among this best variety, Volgograd tomato occupies a leading position.

Content:

• Biological "portrait" of a plant
• A few tips on how to prepare for growing tomatoes
• Planting tomatoes in open ground and caring for them
• Formation of bushes and plant nutrition

  Biological "portrait" of a plant

Get good tomato harvest the correct choice of variety will help. Among the huge variety, the Volgograd tomato 323 should be distinguished. The variety is early ripening, the fruits begin to ripen 100 days after planting.

The plant is short, compact, looks beautiful and neat. Fruits are round flat, red, smooth. There is a slight ribbing. Excellent taste: the tomatoes are sweet and fleshy. Tomatoes weigh from 80 to 100 grams. The total yield from 1 m2 can reach up to 7 kg.

The determinant plant is unpretentious, has an average resistance to diseases, tolerates various temperature cataclysms well, so characteristic of recent years. It is appreciated by gardeners for yield stability, relative unpretentiousness in cultivation and high taste.

Volgograd tomato is universal:

• it can be consumed fresh
• canning,
• recycle
• perfectly tolerates transportation over long distances, so this variety can be grown not only for home use, but also for sale.

Gardeners have been convinced of the true characteristics of the variety more than once, so it is popular in almost all regions of the country.

  A few tips on how to prepare for growing tomatoes

It is not so easy to grow a good harvest of tomatoes, but the Volgograd tomato is especially unpretentious, therefore it is suitable for beginner gardeners and even those who do not visit their plots very often.

Tomatoes of this variety grow on any soil, but it is better to choose a loamy or sandy piece of land for them. It would be nice if a year earlier on this place the following cultures grew:

• Zucchini
• Cabbage
• Cucumbers
• Carrot
• Beans
• Peas

The beds are prepared before winter, in late autumn. They dig up the earth, bring in humus, mixed with mineral additives. All this is well loosened and left in this state until spring. As soon as the snow melts, the dried soil is harrowed and fed with ammonium nitrate.

Volgograd tomato can be grown both in greenhouses and in the open field.

The seedling method uses wooden boxes or peat tablets or pots. When sowing seedlings, it must be remembered that the less the root system is injured, the better the harvest will be in the future.

Seedling planting time in open ground, usually, occurs after the end of the night cold and frost. The seedling must be at least 15 cm, have 9-10 true leaves and several inflorescences that have emerged. Following these recommendations, gardeners will plant healthy and strong seedlings in open ground, which will be much easier to care for.

  Planting tomatoes in open ground and caring for them

Tomatoes of the Volgograd tomato variety are planted in the holes, which must be made deep.The seedling bush should be covered with soil to the first true leaves. You should not fill the hole completely, it is better to do it in half, for convenient watering.

Tomatoes don't take a lot of moisture well, so everyday abundant watering Not recommended. Plants are watered on the day of planting and, subsequently, this is done regularly at intervals of 10-15 days. After two waterings, you can fill the hole completely.

The Volgograd tomato is undersized and is not subject to a garter.

If a slightly overgrown seedling is planted, you can put each sprout in a hole, with the tip to the north. Tomatoes will stand up on their own in 2-3 days and reach for sunlight. In very hot weather, tomatoes need extra protection from sunburn. For this purpose, they must be shaded for a day.

This can be done in different ways:

• Cover with grass leaves. If the seedlings are small, then you can not spend money on additional funds, but use large leaves of weeds, covering each root with them.
• Cover with special material. It is best to use agrotex. The material can be draped over simple pegs set along the edge of the lot. It effectively protects plants from the hot rays of the sun.
• Cover with improvised means. You can create a shadow on the area using a regular sheet or a large piece of cloth. You can make a temporary canopy over the site and the like.

After the tomatoes get stronger and get used to the sunlight, all devices can be safely removed and proceed to the next stage. growing tomato.

  Formation of bushes and plant nutrition

Although the Volgograd tomato variety is undersized, it has stepchildren in the same way as other varieties. It is imperative to remove them, growing tomatoes in one bush. Stepchildren break off on a cool morning, then the sun will heal the wounds during the day. A small branch should be left at the site of the break, since if you break it off at the level of the trunk, after a while it will grow again.

Of the stepchildren, very it is useful to make fertilizers... They are broken off, put into a large bowl, filled with water and covered. They roam for several weeks. Then the mixture is filtered and diluted 1 to 10. With this top dressing, tomato bushes are poured under the root before flowering, since this is a kind of nitrogen fertilizer.

With a small number of ovaries, tomatoes can be treated with boric acid in combination with urea.

In addition, tomatoes are good for feeding with rotted manure or compost. In any case, top dressing is necessary, as it increases the yield of the variety.
Based on the foregoing, it becomes clear that you can get a good harvest of tomatoes not only from imported hybrid varieties. The domestic variety of Volgograd tomato surpasses many of them not only in yield, but also in taste. And taking care of him is not as difficult as it seems.

More information on how to plant tomatoes can be found by watching the video.