For our compatriots, tomatoes have long been one of the main food products. It is difficult to imagine a table, festive or ordinary, on which there would be no place for this wonderful vegetable in every way. About one of the brightest representatives of the tomato kingdom, tomato "Pink Elephant" and will be discussed in our article.
Tomato "Pink Elephant" - description
"Pink Elephant" refers to varieties of tomato medium ripening. You can drink the first elephant-tomato 112 days after the germination of the tomato seeds. This variety is most suitable for cultivation under conditions of greenhouses or under film shelter in the open ground. Shrubs of tomato "Pink Elephant" grow medium in size, moderately covered with small-sized leaves of potato type. As a rule, 6-8 tomatoes are formed on each bush. The fruits of the Pink Elephant have a rounded shape, flattened from below, and painted in a dark pink color. On average, each tomato has a mass of 250-300 grams, but tomato-record holders can reach 1 kg. And in terms of taste, the brand "Pink Elephant" can be attributed to the original record holders: tomatoes grow fleshy, juicy, sweet. They are delicious both for use for harvesting for the winter, and for eating in raw form. From one square meter of planting, you can expect a harvest of six to eight kilograms of tasty and very beautiful tomatoes. Taking into account that no more than 2 plants can be planted per 1 square meter of the garden, it turns out that the yield of each bush reaches 3-4 kg. The tomato variety "Pink Elephant" is distinguished by its good resistance to the main diseases, it is less affected by pests.
Growing tomatoes "Pink Elephant"
The cultivation of "Pink Elephant" cultivar has some peculiarities. First, this sort of tomato needs a binding garter to the vertical support. Secondly, bushes need to be pamphlets in time and normalize the number of flowers in the lower inflorescences - the first and second, leaving no more than 4 flowers in them. Do not forget about the need to fertilize the soil - during the season, tomatoes "Pink Elephant" needs constant mineral top dressing. Proper execution of these simple agrotechnical techniques will help to achieve an excellent harvest of tomatoes "Pink Elephant" and even grow up tomatoes, record holders, with a mass of more than 1 kg.