The selection of tomatoes for planting is not an easy task. Heats up the spring sun more and more, and the painful search begins for the very same tomato that will not disappoint, will delight with a plentiful harvest and excellent taste. A popular variety from the company "Siberian Garden" Babushkin's secret is a tomato that will decorate any personal plot. It has a pink hue of fruits, has excellent taste properties of a salad variety, bears fruit well and is generally unpretentious.
What's in a name…
It is known that tomato Grandma’s secret is an indeterminate type. In total, two main types of tomatoes are distinguished by the nature of stem growth: determinant and indeterminate.
Determinant
These are varieties with a limited growth point. Their growth stops after tying 4 or 5 hands. The determinant varieties of tomatoes are divided into two further subcategories: superdeterminant and simple. Those that belong to the “super” category very early and sometimes amicably (but there are exceptions) ripen and give back the crop. They do not require the formation of a bush by pinching and garter of the hands to the supports.
Conventional determinant varieties of agronomists recommend moderately pinch to obtain an earlier and more friendly crop. Otherwise, due to the large number of stepsons, the crop will ripen at a later date, and the fruits may turn out to be smaller and will not have time to ripen by the onset of cold weather.
Indeterminate
This category includes tomatoes (varieties and hybrids) with an unlimited growth point of the main stem. Bushes of this type require constant monitoring and formation in the form of tying to a support and pinching. In our region, because of the short warm season, gardeners of this category prefer to grow tomatoes in greenhouses or greenhouses, as they have medium and late ripening dates.
The tomato Grandma’s secret belongs to this category. The description tells us that it can grow on average up to 150-170 cm.
Grandma’s secret is a tomato with excellent characteristics
Tomato Babushkin’s secret has recently been bred by Siberian Garden breeders. Here is what the manufacturer indicates in the description:
- Large-fruited variety, fruits can be poured up to 1 kg.
- Recommended for planting in greenhouses or under film shelter.
- The bush requires the formation and garter, timely pinching, watering and complex feeding.
- Characteristics of fruits: flat-round with red-raspberry color, small seed chambers, fleshy, sweet, palatability - excellent.
- Suitable for use both fresh and in winter preparations.
- Seeds are sown for seedlings 50-60 days before transplanting to a permanent place.
- Comfortable temperature conditions for seed germination - 23-25Âş.
- The recommended number of plants of the variety "Grandma's Secret" (tomato) when planting in a permanent place - 2-3 pcs. on 1 sq.m.
Agricultural technology for growing seedlings of tomatoes
The process of growing tomatoes can be divided into several main stages:
- Sowing seeds.
- Picking seedlings.
- Transplanting seedlings in a large-capacity container.
- Transplanting to a permanent place of growth.
Grandma’s secret is a tomato whose seed planting time for seedlings is 50-60 days before planting seedlings for permanent residence (permanent residence). That is, if a landing for permanent residence is planned, for example, on June 1, then the seeds are sown in late March - early April.
Picking (i.e. replanting) of grown plants in separate pots is carried out 2-3 weeks after germination.
Transplanting seedlings into containers with a large volume is done as necessary when the seedlings become crowded in a small pot (this circumstance over time becomes noticeable even to an inexperienced gardener).
Transplantation for permanent residence in the greenhouse and open ground is carried out at different times. The earth in the greenhouse warms up early for 2-3 weeks than in the beds. And nighttime temperature drops will not be so terrible for seedlings.
In open ground, seedlings are planted at a time when the threat of return frosts has already passed.
All other stages and nuances, such as soil for planting, additional fertilizers, backlighting, etc., each gardener selects based on his experience and requirements for the future harvest.
Everything is taken into account: the conditions for growing seedlings before planting, soil composition characteristics and the degree of illumination of the future permanent residence of tomatoes, climatic conditions and features of the region.
If the first experience of growing seedlings fell on the secret Babushkin’s tomato, the feedback from neighbors in the summer cottage and the recommendations of more experienced gardeners will facilitate this task.
Opinion from
Despite the fact that the "Siberian Garden" positions this variety as a novelty, many gardeners have repeatedly grown the secret tomato Babushkin. Reviews of gardeners about him are similar:
- Real tomato flavor, very tasty, meaty, salad grade.
- The bush grows of medium height, just above a meter, has a powerful trunk and bears fruit abundantly.
- High-yield tomato, complex brushes with a large number of fruits.
- Undemanding fertilizing with fertilizers.
In general, lovers of growing their own crops do note that the breeders cater to them by creating the secret Babushkin’s tomato. The photo on the pack with seeds completely coincides with the appearance of the tomatoes grown from it.
Those gardeners who have not yet experienced this interesting variety in their area, are attracted by its original name - Grandma’s secret, a tomato of excellent taste. It blows from him with something cozy, tasty and homely, reminiscent of a village in which a kind and friendly grandmother lives and grows her magnificent tomatoes.