Tomatoes for real gourmets - tomato variety "Strawberry dessert": the most complete description and characteristics of the species

Gardeners prefer to grow tomatoes, giving large, juicy fruits with excellent taste. It is desirable that they are not particularly demanding on agricultural technology and put up with minor temperature differences.

All these qualities are inherent in the strawberry dessert variety, which is popular among amateur gardeners and professional farmers.

In this article you will find a detailed description of the variety, you can get acquainted with its main characteristics, learn about the features of cultivation.

Tomatoes Strawberry dessert: variety description

"Strawberry dessert" - indeterminant mid-season variety. Especially love connoisseurs of classic tomatoes. Shrub is not a standard, it is better to grow on the trellis or high vertical support.

The first fruits ripen in July, you can collect tomatoes until frost. In conditions of year-round heated greenhouses, fruiting is possible until the end of November and the beginning of December.

Fruits are large, rounded flat, ruby-red. Tomato weight - about 300 g, yield - up to 10-12 kg per bush. Taste is saturated, sweetish, with light fruit notes. High content of solids and sugars. The fruits are fleshy, with small seed chambers, juicy pulp and thin skin.

Tomato variety "Strawberry dessert" is suitable for growing in greenhouses and heated greenhouses. Perhaps industrial breeding in farms. In greenhouse conditions tomatoes ripen in all regions of Russia. The harvest is well kept, suitable for long shipments.

Note! Tomatoes "Strawberry dessert" is used for making salads and other cold appetizers, juices, soups. Fruits are also suitable for canning: pickles, pickling, inclusion of vegetables in the composition.

The weight of a variety of fruits can be compared with others in the table below:

On our site you will find a lot of useful information about growing tomatoes. Read all about indeterminant and determinantal varieties.

And also about the intricacies of care for early-ripening varieties and varieties characterized by high yield and disease resistance.

Advantages and disadvantages

Among the main advantages of the variety "Strawberry dessert":

• high yield;
• resistance to major diseases (late blight, gray rot, etc.);
• tasty fruits suitable for salads and canning;
• The extended fruiting period allows you to harvest during the whole summer.

Lack of variety:

• full maturation of the ovaries is possible only in closed conditions;
• tall variety requires binding and reliable supports.

The variety, as mentioned above, is highly productive. You can compare this indicator with other varieties in the table below:

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Features of growing

Tomato "Strawberry Dessert" is sown on seedlings in late March. Seed germination is average, germinates up to 85% of the seed. After the appearance of the first true sheet, a picking is carried out. Backlight helps to grow seedlings stronger and increases future yields.

The seedlings are planted in the greenhouse in early May. The optimal distance between the bushes is 40 cm, wide 60 cm long rows are required. It is impossible to thicken the plantings, the light and a constant flow of fresh air is necessary for successful maturation of the ovaries.

Tomatoes need weekly supplementation with complex mineral fertilizers and organic matter. A few days after transplantation, fast-growing bushes are tied to supports or trellis.

In the articles of our site you will find a lot of useful information about fertilizers for tomatoes. Read all about:

• Complex, organic, mineral, phosphoric and ready fertilizers.
• How to use ash, yeast, iodine, boric acid, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide as a top dressing.
• How to feed the seedlings, tomatoes during the picks and what is foliar feeding.

Attention! Tomatoes need pasynkovat, removing all lateral processes and lower leaves.

After the end of the growing season, pinching the growth point is recommended. For the successful formation of ovaries requires abundant watering, ventilation of the greenhouse and maintaining a temperature of 20-24 degrees. With a decrease to 10-8 degrees, the development of plants is slowed down, with a further decrease in temperature, the bushes may die.

Fruits are harvested throughout the summer in a phase of technical or physiological ripeness. Harvested tomatoes ripen perfectly indoors and can be stored for several months.

Diseases and pests

The variety "Strawberry dessert" is resistant to the main diseases of tomatoes, including viral ones. Little prone to late blight. For the prevention of fungal and viral diseases, the annual change of soil in the greenhouse and the shedding of soil with a solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulfate is recommended. Periodic sprays of non-toxic bio-preparations with antifungal effect are also useful.

During the period of fruiting planting may be affected by slugs. They are cleaned by hand, spraying water will help sprinkle with an aqueous solution of ammonia. It is better to soil the soil in the greenhouse with a layer of peat or straw, this will protect the plants from stem and root rot.

Tomatoes variety "Strawberry dessert" - a great choice for professionals and amateurs. Once having planted tomatoes on the site, the majority of gardeners already do not part with this grade. With the observance of the simplest rules of care and the availability of a good greenhouse, fertile bushes will delight with a bountiful harvest every summer.

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