Tomato Spassky Tower F1: reviews, description, productivity

Tomatoes are the most favorite and widespread vegetable that can be found in every vegetable garden. They are grown both in the closed and in the open ground. And at any time of the year there is a demand for them both in fresh and canned form. Thanks to modern breeding, tomatoes can now be grown even in areas with cool and short summers or in cottages with limited watering. Great popularity among summer residents began to use tall tomatoes, and for that there are reasons.

The advantage of tomatoes of high grades

Every gardener dreams that he had high yields of tomatoes with minimal time and effort. This became possible due to the fact that the breeders derived semi-determinant and indeterminate tomato varieties.

Indeterminate types of these vegetables are more suitable for industrial cultivation, as their bushes exceed in height of 2 meters. Collecting a crop in a greenhouse at this height is not always convenient, but half determinants are another matter.

Tomatoes of these varieties reach a height of 100 to 180 cm and have obvious advantages over conventional species:

• Firstly, they significantly save space, since on each such bush grows up to 10 brushes of juicy fruits at the same time. With such a high yield, you can plant less seedlings and save space on the plot or in the greenhouse for something else.
• Secondly, high yields of medium tall and tall varieties, such as tomato Spasskaya Tower F1 unique, for example, is already known to many summer residents.
• Thirdly, plants receive light evenly and are well ventilated, which has a favorable effect on their resistance to major diseases.
• Fourthly, such varieties are fruitful for up to six months, and if you apply them to proper farming techniques and grow in a greenhouse, then the harvest can be removed for a year.

In addition to these advantages, they are also an ornament of a garden, a greenhouse or an arch. Especially popular among summer residents is the tomato Spasskaya Tower F1. Reviews about him are most enthusiastic, both about the fruits, and about their quantity. With 1 m ² you can collect more than 30 kilograms of tomatoes.

The Spasskaya Tower

Many summer residents are concerned with the purchase of seeds or seedlings of tomatoes as to whether the selected variety will be fruitful. Dream of any trucker will be the tomato Spassky Tower.

The description speaks for itself:

• Superactive;
• Mid-term;
• For any weather;
• Tall plant with stem up to 150 cm;
• Easy-care grade, since almost half of the nodes do not have stepsons;
• Forms brushes for 4-6 fruits weighing 200 to 500 g each;
• Well tolerates the difference in temperature conditions;
• The variety develops even in conditions of low illumination;
• Is resistant to diseases such as fusariosis, root nematodes, cladosporium and TMV;
• Suitable for both indoor and outdoor use;
• It is incredibly delicious, juicy and sweetish flesh.

This tall variety should be fastened with supports, since under the weight of the fruit its stem can break.

Soil Preparation

Every gardener can give his recipe how to grow tomatoes, but tall varieties require a slightly different approach than their undersized brethren.

Due consideration should be given to the preparation of the site and the ground. It is better to do this from the fall, but if for some reason it did not work, then in the spring it is important to make all the necessary preparations no later than a month before planting the seedlings.

Tomato Spassky tower, whose height can reach up to 150 cm or more, like other tall varieties, loves well-fertilized soil, so the introduction of peat, humus or compost is mandatory. Potassium and phosphoric substances are recommended to make in the autumn with the subsequent digging of the site, so that by spring they soaked the soil.

But nitrogen fertilizers are added in the spring, so it is so important to divide the preparation of the site into 2 stages, for which the tomatoes will thank the high yield.

Clay soil

If the soil in the garden is clay, then it must be diluted with river sand with manure, which will make it more friable. Many summer residents use the most profitable fertilizer method for land - planting siderates. For tall varieties of tomatoes, rye or mustard is best , which should be dug right after they have ascended and grow slightly. This is the most healthy type of soil fertilization.

In addition to preparing the site, an important role is played by the correct planting of tomatoes.

Technology of growing seedlings

Tall Tomato Spassky Tower F1 (reviews of those who grew it, it is confirmed) should be properly planted, but first you need to grow seedlings. To start sowing the seeds follows 2-2.5 months before transplanting it into the open ground.

Seeds of tall tomatoes must be soaked in a solution of 1 liter of water and 1 teaspoon of either Agricola Vegeta liquid fertilizer or Effeton. You can use wood ash or nitrophosphate. Seeds should be packed in a bag made of natural cloth or gauze and kept in a liquid for a day at a temperature of +25 degrees. After that, send for a couple of days in the refrigerator on the shelf, wrapping the pre-tank with the swollen seeds into cellophane. These manipulations will temper them and make them strong.

While the seeds are hardened, it is necessary to prepare soil for them. For this, peat, earth and humus are taken in an equal amount, everything is thoroughly mixed and 1 teaspoon is added to the bucket of this mixture. Urea, potassium sulfate and superphosphate.

This soil mixture needs to be heated, which can be done in the oven by putting the temperature at +100 ... + 115 degrees, for 20 minutes. For this purpose, an ordinary pan is suitable, where the soil mix is covered with a layer of up to 5 cm of thickness.

The day before sowing, the prepared soil is poured into boxes and well moistened. Seeds of tall tomatoes are thrown into pre-made shallow grooves to a depth of 1 cm and at a distance of 1.5-2 cm, sprinkled with earth without additional watering. The gap between the rows should be at least 5 cm.

Boxes with future seedlings are recommended to be delivered from the sunny side, where there is a lot of light and air temperature from +20 to +25 degrees.

Transplanting

Summer residents, who know how to grow tomatoes in the open ground, transplanted the plants 2-2.5 months after sowing the seeds. In order to protect them from possible diseases during the adaptation process in a new place, experienced gardeners recommend seedlings of tall tomatoes to sprinkle with copper chloride on the basis of 10 liters of water 30 g of the drug.

Tomato Spassky Tower F1, reviews about this grade are guaranteed, will give a greater yield if properly prepared wells. They should be no less than 15 by 15 cm and depth at the bayonet spade and pre-fertilized. The best distribution of pits is the chess order, in which tall tomatoes receive light evenly and do not interfere with each other. The bushes develop better and are ventilated.

Top dressing and care

Although the tomato variety Spassky Tower is already distinguished by its high yield, the fertilizing of the plant can make it even more. Experienced agronomists advise to carry out during the season 3 additional fertilizing:

• The first is carried out 2 weeks after planting the seedlings. Since the land was properly fertilized and prepared before, it is enough to dilute 1 kg of bird droppings in 10 liters of water and water the plants. If you use ready-made fertilizers, then "Humisol" or "Rost-concentrate" is suitable.
• As soon as the second brush is blossomed on the plant and the ovaries of 1.2-1.5 cm in diameter appear on it, the second feeding time is suitable. To do this, a solution of bird droppings or manure with the addition of "Rastvorin" (1 tablespoon) and manganese and copper sulfate (3 g each) per 10 liters of solution is also suitable. The resulting mixture must be added to each bush, taking into account 2 liters per plant.

• The third feeding is carried out during the harvesting of the first crop. Its composition is the same as in the second, only to make under each bush follows 2.5 liters of solution.

Each "feeding" should be accompanied by watering. To keep moisture as long as possible, after the first feeding it is necessary to mulch the soil. For tall tomatoes the best mulch will be pine needles, straw or sawdust, which should be spread evenly over the roots of the plant with a uniform layer 5 cm thick.

Watering

A feature of tall tomatoes is that they should be watered directly under the root with a calculation of 1 liter or more per plant. It is important that the water does not soak the leaves. On cloudy days it is enough to water twice a week, and in hot summer more often.

The best water for this is a stand-by, heated in the sun to a temperature of at least +24 ... + 26 degrees. If for some reason the water is or is very slowly absorbed, experienced summer residents are advised to make several punctures in the ground around the roots.

It is better to loosen the soil just after irrigation, but only superficially, so as not to damage the root system. In autumn, when the last fruits are already ripening, the stems must be loosened from the supports and gently laid along the beds. Watering in this period, the plant is no longer necessary.

Tying the bushes

Since the tomato Spasskaya Tower F1 (reviews of summer residents say this) gives 30 kg or more with 1 m ² and has large round fruits, it needs tie stems. This can be done in two ways:

• Tie each stem separately, driving a peg near it with a height of up to 1.5 meters and tie it with tape as it grows.
• You can drive the pegs around the edges of the bed and pull a fishing line between them at a distance of 30 cm from the ground. When the plant overgrows this height, the next line is stretched, and so on until the end of the height of the stakes.

Such a procedure will help the plant, and harvesting and caring for it will be easier to implement.

Pasynkovanie

To avoid the risk of building a stalk and green mass instead of tomatoes, it is better to conduct pasynkovanie. If this is not done, then the harvest can not only drag on with ripening until late autumn, but the fruits will be small.

When growing tall tomatoes, this is not difficult, just remove all side shoots that appear lower and slightly higher than the first brush. This will allow the fruits to mature and evenly ripen. This approach will give an opportunity to harvest all summer and to the frosts.

Varieties of tall tomatoes

In addition to the Spassky Tower F1 variety, breeders raised the best hybrids of tall tomatoes for any regions and weather conditions. These include tomatoes:

• Alyonushka is suitable for those who like to harvest early crops. The peculiarity of this variety in the amount of its fruits, which can reach 1 kg.
• The miracle of the earth ripens in just 90 days and yields fruits weighing 400-500 g.
• Midas middle-aged, ripens in 115 - 120 days, has fruits up to 100 g of weight.
• De Barao - ripens in 130 days, but fructifies to the very frosts. Its fruits weigh 70-80 g.

This is not all varieties of tall tomatoes, but they are suitable for gardeners, who have little time to care for plants.