Tomatoes Rosemary F1 - an excellent hybrid variety that pleases gardeners and growers with good yields and excellent taste. The sweet taste of the fruit will appeal not only to adults, but also to children. One of the advantages of the variety is that it is great for baby food and diet menus.
Tomato Rosemary: description and characteristics
This is a mid-early, indeterminate, high-yielding hybrid. Bushes are powerful, fluffy, medium-sized (grow up to a height of 1.5 m or more). Harvesting can be started 110-117 days after germination. From one bush receive 8-10 kg of fruits and even more. The internodes are shortened, the leaves are dark green. Culture requires garters to support and pinching. The best results are obtained when forming a bush in two stems.
Fruit Description
The tomato variety Rosemary F1 has flat-round, large, bright red fruits with a smooth surface. Their size is pretty impressive. The weight of the tomato can reach 500 g. The pulp is very tender, tasty, juicy.
Tomatoes are perfect for making sauces, juices, as well as for making salads.
The fruits boast a high content of vitamin A (twice as high as in other varieties).
Advantages and disadvantages
Tomato Rosemary, a photo of which is attached to the article, has many advantages, including:
- powerful trunk of bushes;
- large fruit sizes;
- excellent taste;
- the variety is resistant to many diseases of tomatoes;
- tomatoes are rich in vitamin A.
Among the weaknesses of this variety, the following qualities can be distinguished:
- weak peel of the fruit;
- poor transportability;
- unsuitability for pickles.
Sowing Features
It is best to engage in sowing seeds for seedlings in the last decade of March or in early April, about 60-70 days before planting in the ground. Seeds in advance, it is advisable to first pickle, dipping them in a solution of potassium permanganate, and then rinse with water. The soil for planting this crop should be light and fairly fertile. When sowing, seeds are planted to a depth of 2 cm.
Tomatoes Rosemary F1 is desirable to dive. This procedure is carried out after the formation of 2-3 of these leaves. Seedlings are transplanted to a permanent place after 55-70 days.
This tomato variety can be grown in greenhouses, indoors or under temporary shelters. He feels best in those areas where crops such as parsley, dill, carrots, cucumbers or zucchini used to grow.
When transplanting seedlings into beds per 1 sq. M. it is recommended to plant no more than 4 plants. Landing pattern: 40x50 cm.
Features of cultivation and care
Despite the fact that the Rosemary F1 tomatoes are a strong plant, the bushes still need to be tied to the trellis, as they grow almost up to a meter.
Crop care consists of timely top dressing, watering, pinching, weed removal, cultivation and preventive measures to protect plants from pests and diseases.
It is recommended to water tomatoes only with warm water and after watering, loosen the soil. The formation of cracks on the fruit is a sign that the earth or air was at some point overdried. Watering is carried out every 5 days.
During the growing season, top dressing of the bushes is carried out 4 times. With excessive application of organic fertilizers, torsion of leaves on the bushes may be noted.
The first feeding is done 3 weeks after moving to the greenhouse.
Harvesting is carried out as it ripens. If you provide the plants with proper care, from 1 sq. M. During the season, you can collect up to 11 kg of fragrant and tasty tomatoes.
Since this variety has a soft and thin skin so that cracks do not appear, the fruits must be removed from the branch along with the peduncle.
Pest and Disease Control
Rosemary F1 tomatoes are highly resistant to major diseases.
However, they are still not immune to curling leaves. The reasons may be the following:
- Excessive organic fertilizer during soil preparation. The solution of this problem will help the introduction of complex fertilizers.
- Insufficient copper content during top dressing. In this case, the plants should be fed with appropriate preparations.
- The temperature inside the greenhouse is too high. Ventilation of the room will help here. After eliminating the cause, the leaves will take their normal form after 1-2 days.
In addition to diseases, tomatoes are attacked by insect pests. Bears and beetle larvae eat plant roots, and leaves like whiteflies, caterpillars and aphids. To combat these pests and for preventive purposes, special drugs are used.
Conclusion
Rosemary F1 is a very interesting, large-fruited hybrid tomato variety that will interest those farmers and summer residents who love sweet tomatoes or are involved in the supply of fruits for making sauces, salads, juices.
It is an unpretentious and very fertile crop with an amazing tomato flavor and high content of vitamin A, which is responsible for the health of hair, skin, bones and eyesight.