Tomato grandmother's secret
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Tomato Babushkin's secret immediately begins to interest in its name. Recently, the Granny's Secret tomato variety has had more fans than ever due to its amazing characteristics. Summer residents send their opinions, publish photos of the recently appeared variety of tomatoes of the grandmother's secret variety, and do not finish asking about the existing specifics of cultivation and agricultural technology for tomatoes.
Tomato Babushkin's secret: the history of the variety
Tomato Babushkin's secret: photo of the variety
It is difficult to find a person who would not prefer to eat tomatoes in one of the various options, for example, raw, in the form of a salad, or after heat treatment. If we take into account summer residents, then they make every effort to choose a variety of tomatoes, with different sizes of fruits.
- Tomato variety Babushkin secret has a Siberian origin, was obtained by selection experts Dederko and Postnikov from Siberia in two thousand and seven.
- The tomato variety Babushkin Secret was included in the State Register of the Russian Federation. Tomatoes are advised to be planted in open soil exclusively in warm parts of Russia, and in other parts of our country, tomatoes are recommended to be planted in a greenhouse or under a shelter with a dense film.
Tomato Babushkin's secret: description and characteristics of the variety
Tomato Babushkin's secret: photo of the variety
Description and characteristics of Babushkin's secret tomatoes are essential for knowing the merits. It is worth mentioning that herbaceous is classified as an indeterminate group.
Shrubs
- Tomatoes of the Babushkin Secret variety stand out for their strength, but the shrubs are not very spreading. Growth, if stopped, is up to two hundred centimeters. Usually summer residents limit growth to one meter thirty to fifty centimeters.
- The stems of a tomato Babushkin's secret are powerful, with ordinary foliage. The color of the foliage is green, its size is large, slightly wrinkled, not inclined at all.
- Ordinary inflorescences, formed with a distance after two leaves. The first cluster of a tomato is formed above the eighth leaf. On inflorescences five to six are formed, rarely seven fruits are found.
- Without paying attention to the strength of the shrub, the formation of brushes should not be allowed more than eight, in another version the tomatoes will become small in size, and the ripening time will increase.
- It is necessary to wait one hundred and sixty days from planting the planting material of this variety of grandmother's secret tomato until the fruit is obtained, which means that the ripening time is ordinary. This variety of tomatoes brings a large amount of harvest, when cultivated in a greenhouse, each shrub yields up to eight kilograms of large tomatoes, in open soil it slightly decreases.
- Tomatoes Babushkin's Secret have a strong root system, it is located on the top layer of the soil and grows on different sides and provides nutrients to the herbaceous.
Taste characteristics and yield of tomato Babushkin's secret
Tomatoes Babushkin's secret: photo of the variety
- Seed compartments are from three to six, but there are very few seeds. Tomatoes with a thin, delicate, yet firm shell.Unripe tomatoes have a dull green color, with technical ripeness they reach a bright pink color, just like in photographs on the Internet.
- Tomatoes are compacted, without cavities, there is little water. Inside, the fruit is pink, sugar. In terms of taste, tomatoes are sweetish with a slight sourness, sugar and other dry substances are contained.
- Babushkin's secret tomatoes have various uses, however, they are not suitable for heat treatment, for example, for canning, due to their large dimensions.
Notice! Tomatoes of the Babushkin Secret variety, according to buyers and following the characteristics, are not suitable for juice due to the special compaction and low liquid content in raw tomatoes.
The time of keeping the fruits has its own terms, and it is also quite problematic to transport tomatoes due to the loss of appearance.
Tomatoes Babushkin's secret: photo of the variety
Tomato Babushkin's secret: the advantages and disadvantages of the variety
The description of the Babushkin Secret variety comes from the characteristics. Let's describe the main dignity tomato varieties grandmother's secret:
- the usual time period for tomatoes allows you to try the first tomatoes three to three and a half months after planting the planting material.
- yields a harvest for a long time, almost the entire growing season. Because the formation of inflorescences on a tomato lasts until the top is pinched. This means that the last harvest from a tomato bush of the grandmother's secret variety can be obtained before the onset of cold weather.
- the yield of tomato Babushkin's secret also surprises summer residents with experience who for the first time cultivate tomatoes of this variety of tomatoes. Each shrub allows you to collect, with proper agricultural technology, about ten kilograms of large tasty tomatoes. Tomatoes taste great.
- Resistant to some fungal diseases such as tobacco mosaic, late blight, powdery mildew.
However, there are also limitations:
- Babushkin's secret tomatoes crack with excessive moisture, sudden temperature changes, with infrequent spraying.
- a small amount of seed in a tomato of the grandmother's secret makes it difficult to prepare the seeds.
- the problem of transportation is that tomatoes lose their presentation, crack, deform.
Specificity of cultivation
Tomato Babushkin's secret: photo of the variety
The cultivation of tomatoes of the Babushkin secret variety has no complications in people who grow the plant for the first time. Most of the instructions for caring for a plant do not differ from other herbaceous ones.
Seedling material
For planting planting material, sod soil is used, mixing with sand and humus. It is also possible to purchase the resulting soil in the supermarket. One part of summer residents uses peat tablets for the cultivation of seedlings of large fruits of tomatoes or planting planting material in a snail.
Seed material and soil are disinfected before sowing. The soil is moistened with hot water by adding potassium permanganate to it. The seeds are placed in potassium permanganate or zircon. The planting material of tomatoes is placed in moistened soil by two centimeters, the distance should be at least two centimeters if the planting is carried out in a box.
The container with the planting material is placed on a windowsill with a sufficient amount of sunlight; for faster pecking, the temperature indicator should be at least plus twenty-five degrees. Cover the top of the container with a thick film. When the first sprouts form, the film is removed, and the temperature indicator is reduced to plus sixteen degrees, so that the seedling material of the grandmother's secret varieties does not stretch.
Transfer to separate containers
At the time of the formation of two or three leaves on small tomatoes, they should be planted one by one, or a dive procedure should be performed. Use small containers or peat cups.It is worth carefully changing the place of the seedling material of the tomato variety grandmother's secret, for the safety of the root system.
Planting on a permanent site
On a permanent site, in a greenhouse or open soil of tomato seedlings, they change their place, reaching an age of fifty days. In fourteen days they temper it, help to get used to the renewed conditions.
After digging up and adding additional fertilizing, the soil is moistened with boiling water of a dim pink solution of potassium permanganate. The pits are made with a space of five hundred to six hundred centimeters, for sufficient territory for the development of grassy.
After planting tomatoes, they immediately arrange a garter of bushes to strong stakes.
If in the past the herbaceous was subjected to diseases, the tomatoes after planting are subjected to preventive procedures using iodine or fungicidal agents. Some summer residents hang tea bags in a greenhouse, placed in iodine in advance, it is believed that this protects tomatoes from fungal diseases.
Care after planting a tomato Grandma's secret
It is always worth moistening herbaceous plants in open soil or in a greenhouse, but do not overdo it, because this negatively affects the growth of tomatoes. Most importantly, tomatoes can crack.
In the greenhouse and in the soil, weeds are removed, the soil is loosened after each moistening. Fresh air must be admitted into the greenhouse to reduce moisture in the air.
Recommendation! If you make a layer of mulch on the ground from straw or freshly cut grass without seeds, then you need to moisten the grassy ones less, weeds will not often interfere.
Tomato varieties Babushkin's Secret are cultivated in a single stem, which means the stepsons are removed along with the foliage. First, before the first brush, then as the brushes are formed. At the moment the eighth flower cluster appears, they are pinched to stop growing. This will give the tomato energy to ripen the fruit.
For feeding, organic components and natural fertilizers are used. Fertilizers are given twice - three times in three months. Believing the opinion of summer residents, feeding with cow dung, bird droppings, greenish dressings has a positive effect on the size and flavoring fruits.
Attention! Do not forget that you should be careful with fertilizers, fattening tomatoes do not bring a normal harvest.
Tomato Babushkin's secret: video about the variety
Reviews of summer residents
Valery, twenty-nine years old, the city of Kolomna
Seedling material of tomatoes of the Babushkin Secret variety was brought by a gardening neighbor last year. These are the most delicious tomatoes in my entire life. They are sweet and without cavities. When cut, everything inside is sugar. I cultivate in a greenhouse in one stem. I make seeds myself. I will never stop growing them.
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Victoria, fifty-seven years old, Krasnodar region
I prefer to work in the garden, often trying new varieties of vegetable crops we are used to. There are eight different varieties of tomatoes growing in my dacha. And, of course, the tomato Babushkin's secret grows, I bought it for the first time ten years ago. When my grandchildren arrive, I always prepare soups and salads for them. The mass of my tomatoes is four hundred to five hundred grams. Average yield.