How to grow tomato "Swamp"? Description and characteristics of the variety

Variety tomato "Swamp" - is a new direction of work of domestic breeders, introduced into the State Register of Russia, recommended for growing in shelters under the film. According to gardeners, cultivation is possible on open ground, but under the weather conditions of the southern regions of Russia.

A detailed description of the variety can be found in the article below. The material also provides information about the characteristics of tomatoes, the characteristics of their cultivation, resistance to common diseases of the nightshade.

Tomatoes Swamp: variety description

The variety of early ripening, ripe tomatoes you get in 95-98 days after planting seeds for growing seedlings.

Shrub height reaches a height of 100-110 centimeters when landing on open ridges, in the greenhouse is slightly higher, to 145-150 centimeters. Indeterminate type of plant, with an average number of large, usual for tomato-shaped leaves of green color. Leaf to the touch loose, weak degree of corrugation.

It belongs to varieties of salad use, but according to numerous reviews from gardeners who grew these tomatoes, it showed itself well when salted with whole fruits.

The best performance grade shows when forming a bush with two stems. The plant requires mandatory garter stems, as well as removal of leaves below the tab of the first brush of tomatoes. This variety is characterized by a small number of stepsons, which are advised to be periodically removed.

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Specifications

Country breeding varieties - Russia. The fruits have a flat-round shape, well-marked ribbing. The average weight of 150-220 grams, when grown in a greenhouse marked fruits weighing 280-310 grams. Unripe fruits are green, ripened greens with pink or yellow patches, a well-marked dark green spot on the stem.

The yield is 4.8-5.5 kilograms on open ground, in the greenhouse 5.4-6.0 kilograms with no more than 3 bushes per square meter of land. The good presentation of fresh tomatoes, poorly tolerated transportation, low rates with long bookmarks for storage.

Excellent taste in salads, tomatoes showed themselves well when canned whole fruits.

Merits:

• exotic appearance;
• excellent, sweet taste;
• the universality of the use of fruits;
• early ripening.

disadvantages:

• the need for tying and pasynkovaniya bushes;
• poor preservation, friability of fruits.

A photo

Check out the variety of tomato "Swamp" in the photo below:

Features of growing

Cultivation is recommended in the ridges where cucumbers, cauliflowers, and carrots were previously grown. The variety does not cause much trouble in growing. It requires periodic watering with warm water in the evening, removing weeds, loosening the soil in the holes. It also requires 2-3 times to fertilize plants with mineral fertilizers.

A slight increase in yield is facilitated by spraying the bushes with Epin-extra.

Diseases

Some gardeners note the defeat of the roots and ripening tomato varieties "Swamp" anthracnose. Anthracnose is a fungal disease of tomatoes. Pathogens are common almost everywhere. Ripening fruits and roots of the plant are most often affected.

The fruit of the place of infection become soft, change color to a brown tint. Subsequently, the color changes to black, the stain dries out. Removing tomatoes for ripening effect does not give, on the contrary, it spurs the rapid development of the disease. Increased humidity in greenhouses also contributes to rapid spread.

The main methods of struggle include:

1. Seed treatment with an immunocytophyte solution.
2. For prevention, spray with Quadris or Flint.
3. Already affected plants are treated with preparations containing sulfur and copper, for example, Thiovit Jet and copper oxychloride.

Green fruit varieties risk planting not all gardeners. Having treated the neighbors - gardeners with the ripened fruits of the variety "Marsh", you can surprise them with excellent taste and an unusual type of tomatoes.

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