Tomato cream varieties: photos and reviews

Tomatoes have been grown by man for several centuries. During this time, just a huge number of different varieties of them were deduced. Some of the varieties are suitable for fresh consumption and for salads, others are used mainly for canning. Among the latter, there is a very popular variety of cottagers - Cream. These tomatoes are grown by many owners of suburban areas and have earned just excellent reviews of truck farmers.

general description

The fruits of all varieties of tomato variety Cream differ:

• Ovoid form;
• Not too great juiciness;
• A small number of seeds.

Judging by the reviews of many gardeners, dense tomatoes Cream varieties, which have a large mass fraction of pulp, are much better than many other varieties suitable for drying. They are also often used for pickling and pickling. Very often, these sauces and pastes are also prepared from these tomatoes. Many housewives praise this variety, including the fact that it can be used in fresh vegetable salads.

Their name was given to these tomatoes for the characteristic shape of the fruit. Outwardly such tomatoes strongly resemble a large plum. The color of the skin of the fruit in different varieties of this group may not be the same. But the shape of Cream is always oblong and tidy.

Biological features

The popularity of tomato varieties Cream in summer residents deserved, among other things, because they belong to the group of early ripening. Usually, no more than 100 days pass from the germination of the seeds to the harvesting of these tomatoes. High tomatoes of this group most often do not grow. In most cases, Cream is a determinant variety. Their height does not exceed 60 centimeters and they do not need a garter or pasynkovanie. These tomatoes are grown mainly in the open ground. They are not self-pollinated.

Leaves of tomatoes of this variety are ordinary - dark green, slightly corrugated. Tomato branched cream Average cream. Their inflorescence is complex, slightly friable.

Tomatoes (sort of Cream): reviews of summer residents

According to most gardeners, in the care of tomatoes, Cream is quite unpretentious. Seedlings can be grown in the usual way. That is, the seeds are planted in boxes in late March - early April. In the open ground, grown tomatoes are transferred at the end of May.

Feed tomatoes Cream varieties (photos of such tomatoes can be seen on the page) during the season usually organic fertilizers - manure or composted diluted grease. Water these tomatoes quite often, not allowing the drying of the soil in the beds.

As for the yield, then, according to most summer residents, these tomatoes are very good. Ovaries they form simply in huge quantities. And almost all the fruits eventually mature. For pickling, such tomatoes are really just fine - they do not change the color in any way and keep the shape very well. Since the flesh of such tomatoes is very dense, it is possible to transport them even for long distances without any problems. Keeping in tomatoes Cream, according to most gardeners, is also very good.

Varieties

Mostly summer residents in suburban areas are grown Cream:

1. Black (or Angolan ). This variety, some gardening also called black De Barao. The weight of fruits in these tomatoes can reach 90 g. The color of the skin is dark red. Tomato varieties Black cream, unlike most others, grow quite high - up to 150 cm.
2. Canning . The weight of the fruit of this variety is usually 50-60 g. The bushes reach a height of 50 cm. The advantages of the variety include, first of all, immunity to diseases and resistance to adverse weather factors.
3. Pink . This is the most popular variety of cottagers Slivka. The advantage of it, in addition to excellent taste, many gardeners consider good immunity to various diseases and pest infestation. Yields Pink cream gives very high.
4. Yellow . This variety is very tall. The skin of its fruits is yellow. The weight of such tomatoes can vary within the limits of 30-70 grams.

Most summer residents in their plots grow tomatoes Yellow Cream. Roses and cans are also very popular. Black cream in the kitchen gardens of Russians can be seen less often.

Diseases

To grow unpretentious Slivka in his garden, not even too experienced a summer resident will not make much effort. To defeat various kinds of infectious and fungal diseases, this variety of tomatoes, as you can see, is stable. For example, late blight or fusariosis, tomato varieties Cream almost never get sick. Do not have these tomatoes and verticile wilting leaves.

However, according to many summer residents, this species is quite often infected with TMV and cladosporium. Especially unstable to such a disease varieties of tomatoes Cream Pink and Black.

Prevention of TMV

Tobacco mosaic is manifested in these tomatoes, as in any other, primarily in changing the color of the leaves to the variegated. On fruits, light spots appear. Unfortunately, antiviral drugs for this disease have not yet been developed. Therefore, when growing tomatoes Cream varieties it is important to give maximum attention to the prevention of TMV. For planting, only quality seeds purchased from reliable sellers should be used. In autumn, the entire tops from the beds should be removed and burned. The same goes for fallen leaves in the garden.

Brown spot

Cladosporium is usually treated with a wide range of fungicides. It can be, for example, copper oxychloride or the drug "Bravo". Preventive treatment with such agents should be carried out twice a season. This will reduce the risk of developing the disease brown spot to a minimum.

How to salt

Thus, canning is what is most suitable for the tomato variety Cream. Harvesting them for the winter can be done using different technologies. But most of them, like any other tomatoes, of course, are simply salted in jars. For this:

• The fruits are thoroughly washed under running water;
• 3-liter cans are wiped with soda and sterilized over steam;
• At the bottom of each canister, dill, a piece of horseradish and currant leaves are laid;
• Tightly clog glassware with tomatoes;
• Put on top cloves garlic, currant leaves and a large dill umbrella.

The brine is prepared at the rate of 600-700 grams of table salt per 10 liters of water. Some mistresses put aspirin (two tablets per jar) for reliability. Pour it in such a way that the tomatoes were closed to him completely. Of course, in brine and on tomatoes there is a huge amount of harmful microorganisms. To destroy them, the brine from each can is poured into a saucepan. Then the latter is put on the gas and the liquid is brought to a boil. At the final stage, the brine is poured back.