Tomato Labrador: features of cultivation

To grow excellent tomatoes any trucker who is engaged in plantings in territory of Russia dreams. This is not an easy task for non-chernozem lands. But to solve it will help early undemanding varieties of tomatoes. One of them is the tomato Labrador, the photo of which is placed in the article.

Description

Tomato Labrador is a super-ultra ultra-ripening variety. Maturation occurs 75-104 days after full sprouting. The height of mature bushes reaches 30-40 cm. No bushes need to be patched. The fruits are red, pleasant to the taste. Productivity can reach 3 kg from the bush. The harvest will be even in a rainy summer.

Advantages of the variety

The variety has the following advantages:

• The grade is not exact;
• Well tolerates temperature changes, cooling;
• Tying is high even in bad weather conditions.

The bush is slightly branched, not large. Inflorescences are simple. The first inflorescences grow over the seventh leaf, then - after one or two leaves. The first fruits Labrador gives already in June. The fruits are large in size, in shape resemble an apple. By color - red. The taste is sweet-sour. Fleshy in texture. Suitable for tomato juice, pasta, go to salting.

This kind of tomato is suitable for seedless breeding, that is, you can sow seeds in the open ground. But if desired, tomatoes can grow and under the film.

Peculiarities of growing

To grow quality seedlings of tomatoes, you need to sow twice as many seeds by number. Then dive on glasses for the future planting exceptionally healthy sprouts. This will ensure an excellent harvest from the bushes.

In the area for cultivation, the principle of crop rotation should be observed, since it is desirable in one place to grow tomato Labrador for more than three years. Then the place changes. Observance of the principle of crop rotation helps prevent the development of many diseases, including phytophthora. If you plant tomatoes on the same land, spores of phytophthora from the soil can affect the bushes.

Forerunners of tomatoes can be:

• Eggplant;
• pepper;
• garlic;
• potatoes;
• Cucumbers;
• cabbage.

These crops ensure the prevention of late blight on the beds, where tomatoes will be grown in the future.

Plant plants on the beds should be removed, as it contains spores of phytophthora. If you do not clean the tops, the spores will fall into the soil and infect it. Such an easy way will help prevent a dangerous disease that affects tomato bushes.

For fertilizing the soil it is necessary to apply fertilizers from organic and minerals. Initially, this is done in the spring during the digging. For each square meter you need 20 kg of humus (manure), two liters of ash from hardwood species of trees. In the process of planting in each hole you need to make ash in the volume of one or two matchboxes, sift, mix it with soil, water it and then plant the seedlings.

During the summer tomato Labrador must be supplemented with a solution of the special fertilizer Sudarushka three times, three additional fertilizing with the help of the universal fertilizer Ideal, and also the foliar feeding of boron-magnesium fertilizers.

To protect tomatoes from late blight, you need to process them: three times per season. Suitable preparations are "Oxihom" or "Hom". Spraying is carried out in dry weather, after that there should not be rain during the day, then the drug will be well fixed. The treatment is very laborious, from all sides with the help of a small sprayer. All parts of the plant must be covered with a protective film, otherwise the phytophthora may develop. Spraying with a broom does not allow to achieve such an effect.

Other ways to combat phytophthora

There are other effective methods to combat late blight:

1. The seeds prepared for sowing should be soaked in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 30 minutes.
2. Spraying the bushes with a solution of garlic. This should be done in the phase of stepchild formation. A glass of chopped garlic cloves is taken to a bucket of water.
3. A solution of bread yeast also helps with phytophthora. Take a bucket of 100 grams of fresh yeast.
4. An excellent remedy for phytophthora is a solution of iodine. On a bucket of water you need 40 drops of iodine.

The greenhouse needs to be ventilated so that during the flowering period the temperature is not above 28 degrees, otherwise pollination will not occur. If, in spite of everything, pollination is weak, it is necessary to do the treatment with the "Ovary."

Tomato Labrador: reviews

According to the reviews of truck farmers, the variety is very unpretentious, perfectly grown in the open ground. Tomato Labrador very quickly gives fruit. They are possible in 75 days. Even with not very favorable weather conditions, a high yield is obtained.

The bushes reach 50-70 cm in height. Fruits weigh up to 150 g. Well suited for salads in fresh form, as well as salting and other preserves.

The variety belongs 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-resistant.

All these positive characteristics make Labrador tomato varieties so popular with truck farmers and provide a high annual demand for seeds.