Tomato Legend Tarasenko: description and agricultural technology

Tomatoes - a culture that is used for preservation for the winter, as well as in the preparation of soups and salads. At any time, this vegetable can be purchased on the market, but it is much more interesting to grow it. An excellent variety for planting in the open field - Legenda Tarasenko. This is a young variety that is gaining popularity among gardeners. Therefore, before planting it for seedlings, you should familiarize yourself with its description.

Content:

• Description and benefits of the variety
• Growing seedlings
• Transplanting seedlings into the ground
• Care Tips
• Diseases and pests

Description and benefits of the variety

Legend of Tarasenko is a tomato variety bred by the Ukrainian school physics teacher F.M. Tarasenko. In addition to Legend, an amateur gardener has bred more than 50 varieties of tomatoes. The Legend of Tarasenko is considered the best of the whole selection. Tomato - stretches up 2 meters, is considered a tall representative of the tomato family. When it grows, the plant should be tied to a support or a special trellis should be erected. If you do not build a support, then the shrub will begin to creep along the ground.

The variety is very fertile, all ovaries are pollinated, develop successfully and are fan-shaped bunches. As they grow, the side stepsons need to be removed so that they do not burden the tomato and do not pull on excess nutritious juices. If you leave sprouts from the inner sinuses, then the shrub will cease to bear fruit. He will switch to forcing young shoots. Therefore, it is recommended to remove them at the initial stage of development. In this case, you should leave the stumps from the stepson 2-3 cm from the base. This is necessary to prevent the dormant bud from re-escaping.

The only moment favorable for the development of the plant, as a young seedling grows, it needs to be formed so that two stems are formed. It is this structure of the bush that will allow you to get the largest harvest possible.

Legend Tarasenko is a mid-season variety.

In the ovary, there can be from 20 to 30 peduncles, which all successfully form into tomatoes. Each of the fruits is an elongated cream with a slightly elongated, elongated spout. When ripe, vegetables have a bright scarlet hue, to the touch they are smooth, with a glossy sheen. Each Legend tomato weighs up to 100 grams. Has a distinctive taste, with a pleasant aftertaste. The flesh of the fruit is firm, not falling apart. They are great for winter pickling, as well as for canning and salads in summer.

The advantages of this variety are:

1. High yield, allowing you to collect several kilograms of net weight from a bush.
2. Excellent appearance, which allows the variety to be highly appreciated as a presentation.
3. Good transportability - due to their dense structure, vegetables can withstand long-term transportation.

Thus, the tomato Legenda Tarasenko is very popular among those who like to grow tomatoes. Having tried to grow this miracle of modern breeding, the need for other varieties of tomatoes disappears by itself.

Growing seedlings

To get good strong tomato seedlings Legend Tarasenko, the seeds should first be planted on seedlings... This should be done even in winter or at the very beginning of spring, so that at the time of planting the sprouts are already large enough and well transferred the process of resettlement to a new place of residence.

Seedlings are prepared in advance before planting. Preparatory work begins from the first days of March or at the end of February:

• The seeds are fully tested by immersion in 5% sodium chloride consistency.
• Seedlings are disinfected in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, the shade of the essence should be slightly raspberry. The disinfection time is 15 minutes.
• Next, the seeds are immersed in the consistency of trace elements for 12 hours.
• It is recommended to carry out heat treatment - at 52 C, the seeds are calcined for 25 minutes. After that, they are soaked in mineral fertilizers "Epin" for a period of 18 hours.

As Legend's seeds swell slightly, they can be planted in prepared containers. In containers, the ground must also be prepared. For good growth, you need to take soil in equal proportions - turf and together with humus. To make the soil loose, airy and allow moisture to pass through well, it should be flavored with sawdust or peat.

Sowing of the prepared seeds of the Legend of Tarasenko is carried out on March 14-21. It is recommended to sow swollen seedlings in flowerpots not exceeding 10 cm. Planting material is planted to a depth of 0.5-1 cm, lightly sprinkled with earth. Cover the top with a film, glass or plastic bag. It is important to create greenhouse conditions for high-quality germination.

The speed of germination depends on the indoor climate.

The plantings are placed in a sunny warm place, where the temperature is kept up to +25 C. If you keep the conditions for germination in this range, then the first shoots will appear in 7-10 days. After the appearance of the first timid leaves, it is recommended to supplement the planting. After all, tomatoes require a lot of light, which at the end of March is still not enough.

The emerging seedlings of the Legend must undergo hardening. They are moved to a cooler but lighter room. They must be kept at a temperature of +12 .. + 16 C for at least 7 days. Then they are transferred to a warmer room, where constant air degrees are +18 C.

While the Legend saplings are gaining strength and growing up, they are watered with settled water at room temperature. Watering should be carried out as the top soil layer dries out. It is not recommended to fill in, you can provoke rotting of the roots or the addition of a disease.

Transplanting seedlings into the ground

When planting strong seedlings of the Legend of Tarasenko in the ground, you should know that root system these tomatoes are very powerful. It penetrates deeply into the soil substrate, fixing itself there thoroughly. Therefore, transplanting young seedlings requires careful conditions and constant plant care.

Transplanting a plant from a container into open ground is carried out at the end of May - beginning of June. It is at this moment that the soil warms up to the required +15 C, there is no longer a danger of recurrent frosts. In addition, the tomato bushes Legend Tarasenko are already fully formed and have one ovary brush.

Landing features:

• Prepare soil for growing in an open area should be 1-1.5 months or even at the beginning of autumn. Legend tomatoes are usually rooted by digging holes. Each depression in the soil should not be less than 50 cm wide and 40 cm deep.
• Humus is added to the bottom of the pit, wood ash... Mineral fertilizers are added next - nitroammophoska... All this is mixed with the ground dug in advance. In this form, the deepening remains to wait for the period of the beginning of planting work.
• Seedlings should be planted when they are about 2 months old. In order for the shrubs to develop well and grow actively, without interfering with each other, they leave about 1 meter between neighboring bushes. And the rows are separated from each other by 1.5 meters.
• 2-3 seedlings are placed in each hole. This is necessary for the plants to hold onto each other.After planting, young shoots are irrigated with a solution of diluted manganese at a dosage of 3 grams. preparation in a bucket of water (10 l).

Further care consists in watering and fertilizing.

Care Tips

After the Legend Tarasenko tomatoes are planted in open ground, they are watered abundantly. Therefore, you should not touch the seedlings for 10-14 days, they must take root on their own.

Features of watering tomatoes:

• Subsequent watering is required only when the soil under the bush dries up. This state lasts until the first fruits are set. It is this period that requires abundant irrigation to form high-quality vegetables.
• The moisture content of the earth must be kept at the same level at all times. If you provoke drying out or, conversely, excessive moisture, then the plant can acquire a disease, as well as stop growing or damage the integrity of the fruit shell.
• Watering is carried out either early in the morning or in the evening after sunset. A stream of water is directed to the root of the plant, so that drops do not fall on the delicate leaves of the Legend tomatoes. In case of contact with greens, burns or the attachment of pathogenic bacteria may occur.

In order for the air to penetrate well into the soil, saturating the roots with nutritious oxygen, loosening is required after each watering. The first loosening is carried out to a depth of 12-15 cm. It is recommended to carry out subsequent procedures without going deeper than 5 cm. During hot summer days, it is worth spilling the plantings of the Legend of Tarasenko with mulch. It promotes less evaporation of nutrient moisture from the soil.

For mulching, rotted sawdust, peat or dried tops of plants are used.

The first feeding is carried out 2 weeks after transplanting seedlings into open ground. The second part of the fertilizer is applied after the first fruits appear. The last one - in 15-20 days. Thus, caring for tomatoes Legend Tarasenko does not cause much difficulty. The main thing is to monitor the drying of the earth and control the external condition of the plant.

Diseases and pests

Some gardeners claim that tomato - unpretentious plants that do not stick to diseases. This judgment is wrong. The Legend of Tarasenko tomatoes are no exception. They often get sick, and their condition requires constant monitoring. If you see the disease in time, you can prevent infection of the entire seedling.

The following types of diseases are distinguished:

1. Mosaic is a viral disease. It is not treatable, so you only need to carry out the prophylaxis of planting material, in advance, disinfecting them in potassium permanganate.
2. Bacteriosis - the bush withers rapidly, and voids form in the thickness of the stem. It cannot be treated, the shrub is removed along with the root system.
3. Brown spot - foliage is covered with large spots, then the trunk suffers. The fight is carried out by spraying with antifungal insecticides.
4. Late blight is a fungal disease that affects fruits. To prevent it, it should be sprayed with milk whey.
5. Gray rot - manifests itself in late summer, when there is a drop in temperature and cold torrential rainfall. It is recommended to spray the whole plant with a garlic solution in the calculation of chopped garlic (30 grams) in a bucket of water. Insist 48 hours.

In addition to diseases, Legend Tarasenko tomatoes can be affected by the invasion of parasitic insects. Among them are often representatives such as bear, wireworm, melon aphid, whitefly, bug bugs or Colorado potato beetle.

Pest control is to notice the insect in time and prevent it from spoiling the planting, as well as multiplying.

For this, a soap-ash solution is used, but if its use does not have results, then chemical insecticides are more effective.

Thus, the Legend of Tarasenko - tomato, which are distinguished by high productivity, high growth.In addition, they require an individual approach to the care and control of their condition. Their main feature is abundant fruiting and original appearance.

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