For most gardeners, tomatoes are the main vegetable. For their sake, in the evenings, city residents rush to their dachas after work; for their sake, greenhouses are built to escape fungal disasters.
This crop can reward you a hundredfold for your care with a high harvest, or it can upset you by turning black from late blight in a couple of days. You have to take care of tomatoes from early spring until late autumn. Therefore, choosing seeds before the new season is a serious task.
Mongolian dwarf - one of the shortest tomatoes
Recently, gardeners have shown great interest in creeping varieties of tomatoes. There are not so many of them yet, however, they are gradually gaining their place in the sun in many regions of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. One of these varieties is Mongolian dwarf.
Creeping types of tomatoes are undemanding and fairly productive varieties. The fruit size is up to 200 g. It is believed that even a novice gardener can handle them.
Due to its early ripening, the Mongolian dwarf has time to ripen before the onset of favorable conditions for late blight and other fungal diseases. Despite its short growth, the plant requires a lot of space.
Kiss geranium - a variety that decorates the garden
Getting to know the American tomato variety Geranium Kiss will not leave you indifferent.The low-growing, early-ripening variety is good both during flowering, when the plant is covered like a cloud with yellow flowers, and during the ripening period. The tips of the tomatoes are sharp, like the beaks of geranium seeds.
The plant has good taste and high yield. Does not require pinching.
Malachite box - a curiosity among tomatoes
The Malachite Box variety will also delight you with its excellent taste. This recently appeared variety of green tomatoes quickly won the hearts of gardeners. The plant belongs to the indeterminate type. Reaches a height of 1.5-2 meters.
The malachite box can be grown both in a greenhouse and in open ground. The skin of the fruit is thin, has a yellow-green striped color, and the pulp is very juicy, vaguely reminiscent of kiwi in taste.
Sun-dried tomatoes and more: you can prepare culinary delights from the Gigolo variety
The original name Gigolo belongs to unusual tomatoes that resemble sausages in shape. The fruits have a dense consistency. Suitable for pickling and drying. Gigolo is a determinate plant and grows well in open ground and in a greenhouse.
Moscow pear is a tomato that has long been known to breeders and summer residents
The habit of growing the same varieties of tomatoes has both positive and negative sides. Science is moving forward, breeders are offering new products with original color, shape, taste, and disease resistance. But when you get carried away with buying new seeds, you may not foresee how this or that variety will behave.Old proven varieties (for example, Moscow pear), the nuances of growing which have been studied to the subtleties, are more predictable.
Moscow pear tree has disadvantages: low resistance to fungal diseases, short shelf life. But excellent taste and good harvest under favorable weather conditions attract more than one generation of vegetable growers.
Oxheart: a tomato whose size and taste are all superlatives
If you ask experienced gardeners the question of which tomato has the taste familiar from childhood, many will answer that it is Ox's Heart. This is a powerful branched plant with fruits weighing up to 1 kilogram.
In greenhouse conditions, the plant reaches a height of 2 meters and produces a harvest of up to 10 kg per bush. Breeders have developed a number of varieties: Pink Bull's Heart, Gold, Orange, White, Black.
Favorite varieties, original new items - both of them will always find a place in the garden beds of true connoisseurs of country life.
