Any gardener who plants in Russia wants to grow excellent tomatoes. This is not an easy task for non-chernozem lands. But early undemanding varieties of tomatoes will help to solve it. One of them is Labrador tomato, whose photo is posted in the article.
Description
Tomato Labrador is a super early ultra-early variety. Ripening occurs 75-104 days after full germination. The height of mature bushes reaches 30-40 cm. Bushes do not need to be stepson. The fruits are red, tastes good. Productivity can reach 3 kg per bush. Harvest will be even in inclement summers.
Grade Benefits
The variety has the following advantages:
- undemanding variety;
- tolerates temperature extremes, cooling;
- tying is high even in bad weather conditions.
The bush is slightly branched, small. Inflorescences are simple. The first inflorescences grow above the seventh leaf, then through one or two leaves. The first fruits Labrador gives in June. The fruits are large in size, shaped like an apple. By color - red. The taste is sweet and sour. Fleshy in structure. Suitable for tomato juice, pasta, go to salting.
This tomato variety is suitable for seedling cultivation, that is, you can sow seeds in open ground. But if desired, tomatoes can be grown under the film.
Growing Features
To grow high-quality seedlings of tomatoes, you need to sow twice as many seeds in quantity. Then dive in cups for future planting exceptionally healthy sprouts. This will provide an excellent harvest from the bushes.
On the cultivation site, the principle of crop rotation should be observed, since it is advisable not to grow Labrador tomato in one place for more than three years. Then the place changes. Compliance with the principle of crop rotation helps prevent the development of many diseases, including late blight. If you plant tomatoes on the same ground, phytophthora spores from the soil can affect the bushes.
Tomato precursors may be:
- eggplant;
- pepper;
- garlic;
- potatoes;
- cucumbers
- cabbage.
These crops provide the prevention of late blight in the beds where tomatoes will be grown in the future.
The tops of plants in the beds should be removed, since it contains phytophthora spores. If you do not remove the tops, spores will fall into the soil and infect it. This simple way will help prevent a dangerous disease that affects tomato bushes.
For top dressing the soil, it is necessary to make fertilizers from organics and minerals. Initially, this is done in the spring during digging. For each square meter you need 20 kg of humus (manure), two liters of ash from deciduous species of trees. In the process of planting, in each hole you need to add ash in the amount of one or two matchboxes, sift, mix it with soil, water and then plant seedlings.
During the summer, Labrador tomato must be fed three times with a solution of the Sudarushka special fertilizer, performed with three fertilizers using the Ideal universal fertilizer, and foliar magnesium-based fertilizers must be foliarly fed.
To protect tomatoes from late blight, you need to process them: three times a season is enough. Oxychom or Hom preparations are suitable. Spraying is carried out in dry weather, after that there should not be rain during the day, then the drug will fix well. The processing is very painstaking, from all sides with the help of a small sprayer. All parts of the plant should be covered with a protective film, otherwise late blight may develop. Spraying with a broom does not allow to achieve such an effect.
Other methods of controlling late blight
There are other effective methods of combating late blight:
- The seeds prepared for sowing need to be soaked in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 30 minutes.
- Spraying the bushes with a solution of garlic. This must be done in the phase of the formation of stepsons. A glass of chopped garlic cloves is taken on a bucket of water.
- A solution of bread yeast also helps with late blight. Take 100 grams of fresh yeast per bucket.
- An excellent remedy for late blight is considered a solution of iodine. A bucket of water needs 40 drops of iodine.
The greenhouse must be ventilated so that during flowering the temperature is not higher than 28 degrees, otherwise pollination will not occur. If, in spite of everything, the pollination is weak, you need to do the treatment “Ovary”.
Tomato Labrador: reviews
According to gardeners, the variety is very unpretentious, well grown in open ground. Tomato Labrador bears fruit very quickly. They are possible after 75 days. Even with not very favorable weather conditions, a high yield is obtained.
Bushes reach 50-70 cm in height. The fruits weigh up to 150 g. They are well suited for fresh salads, as well as salting and other preserves.
The variety refers to hybrid varieties. It means that:
- he has a high vitality;
- the root system is well developed;
- maintains resistance to diseases and climate change;
- frost and drought tolerant.
All these positive characteristics make Labrador tomato varieties so popular among gardeners and provide a high annual demand for seeds.