Choosing tomatoes, you first need to decide where and how you will grow them. Today in specialized stores and markets there is a wide selection of seeds both for open ground and for growing in a greenhouse. It is believed that the best varieties of tomatoes are hybrids. They have increased productivity, early ripening, quite resistant to disease, primarily to late blight. Let's start with the varieties of open ground.
For soil without shelters
Based on the experience of past years, when growing in open ground, experts believe that the best varieties of tomatoes are as follows:
- King of the market II. This is a mid-early determinant hybrid F1, with large, up to 140 grams, fruits. It is resistant to diseases, cracking of fruits. It has excellent taste, it does not deteriorate when transported over a long distance. It can be used for canning and in fresh form.
- The F1 Mona Lisa Hybrid is suitable for film shelters and for open ground. This is an early ripe large-fruited determinant variety. It is low, the fruits are up to 250 grams, very tasty. Mona Lisa bears fruit well in any growing zone.
These are fruitful varieties of tomatoes, so many vegetable growers choose them for growing.
- For an area with a cool climate, Amber, stambovy tomato, not requiring pinching, is well suited. It belongs to early ripening and very resistant varieties. It has bright yellow fruits weighing up to 90 grams. It can be grown in a seedless way, even in areas with a cold climate.
- Early ripe tomato Shuttle can be used in unprotected soil and film greenhouses. The grade is standard, low. The fruits are elongated, oval, weighing up to 70 grams. The variety does not need pinching. Fruits of universal purpose. Its advantages include good transportability, high productivity.
- For areas with a very temperate climate, the Snowdrop variety, half-stemmed, with round-red fruits is suitable. Forms three stems, does not require pinching.
- Of the varieties of later selection, such best varieties of tomatoes as large-fruited determinant Klondike and Raspberry Vikante are recommended. Klondike does not need to be stepson. Its fruits reach a weight of 350 grams, orange, salad purpose.
- The ultra-ripe varieties include Buyan, Flash, Sunny Bunny, Pink Souvenir, hybrids Leader of the redskins, Solerosso, Katya and others.
Varieties for greenhouses
The most popular varieties of tomatoes for greenhouse cultivation are probably Pink Honey, Orange and Miracle Market.
Pink honey is very large-fruited, remarkably tasty, disease-resistant. On the first brushes, the mass of fruits can be more than a kilogram. The variety belongs to the Siberian breeding. It is low - up to 70 cm, pink-fruited, salad purpose.
Orange - semi-determinant, mid-season. The fruits are orange, very fleshy, with good taste. Their weight is up to 400 gr.
Market Miracle - An indeterminate variety suitable for tall greenhouses. Fruit weight up to 700 gr. The fruits have a wonderful taste.
Good for greenhouses and the Koenigsberg variety is indeterminate, with elongated fruits weighing up to 300 grams. Suitable for workpieces.
Old varieties Bull's heart and Budenovka are still popular. These are indeterminate, large-fruited varieties with tasty meaty fruits for salad purposes. Fruits weighing up to 400 gr. Many lovers still prefer them.
Hybrid Semko - early ripe, with red fleshy fruits, the size is not inferior to Budenovka.
Raspberry butcher, Sherry lady, Eternal call, together with the above, represent the best varieties of tomatoes for covered ground.
For low film shelters recommend Paradise, Irganda, Beef, Pavlovsky Rose, Major, Raju and other wonderful varieties.
There are a lot of tomato varieties. If you have been gardening for a long time, you probably have your own, loved ones, which you consider to be the best. I wish you success in their cultivation and excellent harvest!