Low-grown tomatoes for open ground

Growing vegetables in the open field has a number of advantages, including avoiding the material and time costs for building greenhouses. In addition, real gourmets for flavor and taste easily determine where the fruits have grown: outdoors or in greenhouses. A popular vegetable culture is tomato, many land owners prefer to grow outdoors .

Which tomatoes are suitable for growing outdoors?

Most of all for open ground fit low and medium-sized tomatoes. And for cultivation in any climatic zone, except for the most northern areas, the shortest tomatoes are suitable because of their early ripeness. Low-grown tomatoes for open ground are distinguished by a low bookmark of the first inflorescence (after 4-6 leaves) and a small number of inflorescences - up to 6. The growth of the bush is limited by the inflorescence. Many varieties of low-growing tomatoes: Betta, Boni-M, Alaska, Gavroche, Liana can be grown by direct sowing, in which the seeds are planted directly into the soil under the film after the threat of frost passes. In the central zone, this period falls to the end of May - the first decade of June.

Low-fat tomatoes that do not require pasynkovaniya

1. "Alaska" - a culture up to 60 cm high differs early maturity. Fruits are not large 80 - 90 g, round shape. The plant is unpretentious and not prone to disease. "Alaska" refers to low-growing tomatoes, resistant to phytophthora, because the fruiting ends early. From 1 m², up to 2 kg of tomatoes is removed.
2. "Boni-M" refers to the ultra-early varieties. The fruits are rich red, slightly flattened and ribbed, weighing 60 - 80 g. Tomatoes have a wonderful sweet and sour taste. Productivity is 2 kg with 1m². A special feature is the maturing fruit ripening.
3. "Parodist" refers to early low-growing varieties of tomatoes. The height of the bush does not exceed half a meter. The fruits are roundish, rather large, weighing 140-160 g.
4. "Blitz F1" - the mass of fruits - 80-90 g, tomatoes have a wonderful taste with a sweet aftertaste.
5. "Bobkat" - a hybrid combines high yield and early maturity. Fruits of small size weighing 140 g.

Low-growing, low-fat tomatoes

Individual hybrids of low-growing tomatoes are distinguished by a special yield. Here are the most popular of them.

1. "Rocker" - unpretentious variety with red cubed fruit weighing up to 90 g. The yield of the bush is from 3 to 5 kg.
2. "Baskak" is a medium-early variety. Egg-shaped tomatoes have a weight of about 70 g. Harvesting reaches 5 kg with 1m².
3. Large-fruited undersized tomatoes
4. Some truck farmers believe that in the open ground only small tomatoes are grown. This is not true. Large-scale, low-growing tomato varieties are grown and grown everywhere. Here are just some of them.
5. "Friday F1" is an average hybrid. The fruit is rich in pink color and weighs about 220 g. From 1 m2, up to 5.5 kg of tomatoes is removed.
6. "Tourmaline" is a tomato with medium maturity. Smooth pink fruits have a rounded shape. The weight of a tomato is 150-170 g, and the yield is 5 kg from one bush!
7. "Russian delicious" - scarlet large fleshy fruit weighing almost 300 g. Yields up to 35 - 38 kg with 1m²!

Recently, a number of new varieties intended for growing in the open field have been bred by Siberian breeders. Tomatoes of the Siberian series "Sunny bunny", "Buyan", "Blush of Petersburg", "Flash" do not require the formation of a bush. The ultra-hybrids "Gayas Bekseev", "Lucky Fortune" bear fruit weighing 200 g. It should be noted that the best grades of low-growing tomatoes differ not only in excellent taste, high yield, but also in drought resistance, which makes them particularly attractive for growing in risky areas agriculture.