Without tomato and life is not the same. Tomatoes in the salad, tomatoes in the marinade, for pickling, for adjika, for caviar ... You can’t list them all.
The taste of any dish can be improved and improved with the help of this versatile vegetable.
It is not only our breeders who bring new varieties, scientists are working all over the world, trying to bring varieties with new tastes and resistant to disease and bad weather.
Tomato "Japanese truffle": description of the variety
A relatively new variety in Russia, although Western vegetable growers claim that it was bred by us. "Japanese truffle", so named because of the shape of the fruit, will become increasingly popular in our country. The hostess appreciated his original taste and good quality. "Japanese truffle" is an indeterminant variety. Great yield is not famous - 2-4 kg with 1 bush. The variety is medium ripening - ripening period 110-120 days.
When grown in open ground, it can grow up to 1.5 m, in a greenhouse it gives a whip up to 2 m. Requires tying up and pinching.
Tomato has several varieties, determined by the color of the fruit. There are "Japanese truffles" red, orange, black, pink and gold. All tomatoes are pear-shaped with a slight ribbing, weight - from 100 to 200g.
Each of the varieties has its own taste, mostly sweet, sour and with an individual flavor. "Japanese truffle" golden has a pronounced sweet taste, it is often used as a fruit. The skin of the fruit is dense, as well as the pulp, which makes them suitable for transportation and storage.
The fruits of "Japanese truffle" are equally well suited for canning and for fresh consumption. Many gardeners grow all their varieties in order to get a beautiful and aesthetic combination of flowers on the table and in cans.
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Photo tomato varieties "Japanese truffle":
Recommendations for growing and care
"Japanese truffle" is usually grown in 1-2 stems. Fingered so that there are 5-6 brushes left on the stem. On a brush 5-7 fruits grow. On the bush usually 2-3 brushes mature, the rest of the fruit is better to shoot in a state of technical maturity. It grows well in the open ground, but only reaches 1.5 m. In the greenhouse, the whip reaches 2 m, which allows for greater yield.
Tomato planting scheme 40 x 40 is the area that will be enough for good nutrition of the bush. It is planted in the ground at the end of May, respectively, for seedlings two months before that is, at the beginning of the end of March - the beginning of April. If it is supposed to be grown in a greenhouse, then the seeds should be planted in early March, and can be transferred to the greenhouse on May 1st. Harvest from the greenhouse begin to collect in the second half of June.
Variety has a tendency to the hall of brushes, so you need to tie up not only the stem, but also the brush. Stepchildren are quickly thrown out, it is necessary to remove them in a timely manner. They grow very quickly and are difficult to distinguish from the main stem. The rest of the care for the "Japanese truffle" is not different from the usual for all tomatoes - watering, loosening, ventilation (if growing in the greenhouse) and feeding.
In addition to the taste and technical qualities of this variety, its advantage is its resistance to cold and fungal diseases, Especially to a fitoftoroz - the most unpleasant "tomato" illness.
Try to grow your own “Japanese truffle”. And may there be a holiday on your table!
