Tomato "Bull's heart": distinctive features and subtleties of growing

One of the favorite varieties of tomatoes from gardeners is the Bull Heart Heart tomato. Excellent characteristics of this vegetable attract many gardeners. However, in order to grow a quality product, you need to familiarize yourself with its distinctive features, as well as the subtleties of cultivation.

Tomato with an interesting name “Bull heart” is grown in order to enjoy its taste and unusual aroma. Probably, there is no such person who at least once in his life has not tried this product, which has won its popularity due to its incredible taste. It has a very sweet and fleshy texture. And no matter how hard the breeders tried, they couldn’t get a better tomato. It can be eaten both separately and as part of different dishes. These tomatoes get great reviews.

Tomato varieties have many distinctive characteristics.

• Usually a plant consists of three or four processes, on which sprouts are located the ovary.
• Tomatoes “Bull's heart” are quite powerful plants with good branching. The height of the bush sometimes exceeds one hundred and seventy centimeters, although the standards are about one hundred and twenty centimeters.
• This tomato variety ripens three and a half months after its first sprout appeared. Therefore, it is considered the latest type of tomatoes.
• It is possible to grow fragrant fruits indoors and on the ground. However, most often they are planted in a seedling way.

• The fruit is both elongated and flat. Add to this the fact that in one bush tomatoes can be of different shapes. Thus, the largest and fleshy fruits are placed at the bottom and their appearance resembles the heart. The remaining tomatoes at the same time will be much smaller, and their shape will be more round. Taste remains the same, regardless of size and shape. Its color is often crimson, while the flesh is also the same bright, but has a more saturated color. Its fruits contain very little water. Because of this, and have such a rich taste. Tomatoes vary in weight, although most often they are very large, up to four hundred grams of fruit.
• This variety can not be called too whimsical. However, he prefers heat and sunlight. In addition, the tomato does not like too much moisture. But it is also worth considering that “Bull's Heart” tomatoes, which ripen later, are not an option for all regions, in some parts of our country they simply do not have time to ripen before winter.
• In order to manage to grow large and fragrant fruits, you need to add a lot of fertilizer and do regular watering.
• The yield of tomatoes is largely influenced by the conditions that are created for their cultivation. For example, in a garden you can collect up to six kilograms of these vegetables from only one bush. But in the greenhouse the number will double. Thus, the largest mass of one tomato, which was recorded - almost a kilogram.

There are many types of tomatoes in this variety. The first appeared pink very large tomatoes in the shape of a heart. Later, thanks to the research of breeders, many other varieties with different coloring were bred.

This variety is a subspecies of the main variety of tomato "Bull Heart". However, it has a richer color and ripens much earlier.

This type of tomato "Bull Heart" also resembles the original, but the weight of one tomato is seven hundred grams. The shape of such a vegetable is more like an oval than a heart. Red "Bull's heart" has an average term of ripening.

This subspecies is considered one of the best varieties and has large fruits. Such tomatoes are very fragrant, which also attracts gardeners.

This variety has a sunny color, ripens not early and is considered a tomato with medium terms.The fruit reaches a mass of six hundred grams and is very rich in taste.

Tomatoes with this color differ in average periods of cultivation and have a weight of up to eight grams.

Such a subspecies of tomatoes appeared recently. It has an interesting color and excellent taste data. Its mass reaches five hundred grams. The disadvantage is that they mature very late.

In addition, there is also a yellow "Bull Heart" or, in another way, Brown s Yellow Giant.

As well as breeders bred and scarlet tomatoes of this variety, King London. All of them have good taste and beautiful shape.

Tomatoes "Bull's heart" have equal quantities of both minuses and pros.

To get started is to get acquainted with its advantages. This, of course, is a high yield of this vegetable, as well as almost simultaneous fruit set. This variety has very large fruits. Consists of different subspecies that allow you to harvest both early and late tomatoes.

The disadvantages of this variety of tomatoes, too much. Like any tomato, "Bull Heart" is very prone to various diseases. In addition, he has abundant clusters. For this reason, the bushes need to sit down not less than one meter from each other, and tie up. This variety requires a large amount of fertilizer and daily care. Moreover, not everyone can grow it on the ground because of its long maturation. Therefore, most often, Bull's Heart tomatoes are grown in greenhouses.

To get a good crop of tomatoes, you must take into account the characteristics of each variety, as well as follow the rules of agricultural engineering. Although this variety is not particularly distinguished by capriciousness, it still has some drawbacks that must be taken into account when planting.

Growing seedlings is better to produce in the greenhouse. You can start sowing in early March or even in late February, as this is a late ripe variety of tomatoes. However, first you need to prepare the seeds for planting, so that friendly shoots will delight gardeners and be strong. They must be soaked in melt water for fourteen hours to stimulate the growth of seedlings. Make this water as follows: plastic bag must be filled with plain water and freeze. Then it must be melted and tomato seeds are placed in this liquid.

When the preparation of seed stock is finished, they need to be expanded in a container on a damp cloth and cover with a lid. After that, put in a warm place for a few days until they proklyutsya.

Sprouted seeds should be planted in the ground. It is better to use the purchase, which is perfect for seedlings. You can find a special soil, which is intended just for growing tomatoes "Bull's heart." All this can be asked from the sellers. The soil layer should be even and not less than three centimeters thick. Next, you need to pour it with water at room temperature and with the help of tweezers to spread the seeds into separate cups, then fill up with a thin ball of dry soil.

Then the cups should be covered with foil and placed in a warm place so that they sprout there. After the first shoots of the shoots, the film is removed, and the container with the cups is transferred to a cooler place. To do this, you can use the window sill. When there are two or three leaves, you can begin to dive seedlings. Weak sprouts are removed completely, and strong ones are transplanted into more spacious dishes.

After that, you can begin to harden seedlings.This should be done gradually starting from a few minutes and increasing their time in the fresh air. It is possible to transplant seedlings into a greenhouse already in early May or even a little earlier. For open ground transplanting is recommended only at the end of May, when there will be no night frost.

A place for this is prepared in the fall. To do this, while digging the garden you need to make organic. If this has not been done, then when planting seedlings in each hole, it is necessary to pour fertilizer, for example, one teaspoonful of nitroammofoski. It is better to plant tomatoes on the place where such crops as cabbage, onions or any leguminous plants used to grow.

In the conditions of greenhouse growing tomatoes "Bull's heart" you need to be prepared for the fact that these tomatoes will take almost all the shelter. The distance between the rows should be at least one meter. Between the bushes need to leave a distance of forty centimeters. Planted seedlings need to a depth of fifteen cm. In some cases, it is possible and deeper, but you need to look so that the distance between the ground and the first leaf of the plant is at least five centimeters.

In order for the crop of tomatoes to be as large as possible, it is necessary to follow all the rules of caring for solanaceous plants: water, feed, loosen the ground, stick them, even pollinate if necessary. The latter is relevant for those tomatoes that are grown in greenhouses. By the way, this is not the only difference that is worth remembering. Choosing a closed room instead of the beds, it is imperative to do the airing of the greenhouse, to carry out mulching, and not to forget to tie up the tomatoes. It is worth considering all the stages of cultivation in more detail.

Variety "Bull's heart" is a drought-resistant plant. Therefore, after planting seedlings can not immediately water it. Only after they begin to grow quite actively, you need to do their watering. If there is not much land, then it will be enough to water the tomatoes twice a week.

Five liters will be enough for young tomatoes, but up to twelve liters will be needed for mature plants. On particularly hot days, you can increase the watering to fifteen liters. Make it better with warm water in the evening or morning.

If the days are hot, then you need to air the greenhouse every day. The windows must be open, because overheating in the room will greatly complicate the process of pollination. the humidity in the greenhouse must be at least seventy percent.

Tomato "Bull's heart" will bear fruit very well, if you leave only one stem.

This process is the cutting off of all unnecessary sprouts in the axils of the leaves. Since this plant has quite a few stepsons, they must be removed. Otherwise, they will take away all the juices themselves, and the tomatoes will grow small and weak. Therefore, it is better for beginners not to start cultivating them, since, due to inexperience and without the ability to properly care for fruits, you can simply transfer tomatoes.

In general, stepchildren need to be removed when their length is about five centimeters. Previously, it is not recommended to do so as not to injure the plant itself. It is necessary to monitor their appearance constantly, because they appear almost every week.

Such a process greatly affects both plant growth and fruit quality. You need to feed them three or four times for the whole season. However, the gap between feeding should not be less than two weeks, otherwise it will be fraught with consequences. Seedlings can stop their growth or even turn yellow.Feeding is better to alternate.

If the plants after planting already have long stems, then you can tie them right away. To do this, take a peg up to two meters and drive it into the ground next to the plant. After that, the desired stem is tied to it. When he grows up, the place of the garter changes, that is, moves up.

This process can be done with sawdust or straw. To ease the care of plants, it is possible to make a layer of mulch up to five centimeters. This will help not only to retain moisture in the soil, but also will not allow different weeds to grow. But also if the tomatoes are lying heavily on the ground, the mulch will protect them from rotting, and also protect them a little from diseases.

If the seedlings planted on the street can easily be pollinated by any insects or even by the wind, then the pollination has to be done manually.

Tomatoes “Bull's heart” are completely unstable to late blight. As a result, if the weather is cold and rainy outside, then this disease does not bypass this plant. In order to prevent the need to not only decontaminate everything around them, but also to observe the correct distance between the bushes themselves. You should not plant tomatoes in the same place.

And also for the prevention of twice a season, it is necessary to treat all plants with special antifungal agents. If the bushes already have signs of the disease, then they need to dig up and burn. This is done so that the disease does not spread to other bushes.

In addition to this disease, there are also others, for example, Fusarium or Verticillis. However, tomatoes are more resistant to these diseases.

To grow such a plant, it is imperative to take into account the climatic conditions of the region where the tomatoes will be planted. On the ground, you can grow only in warm areas, in other places it is better to do it in greenhouses so that tomatoes can ripen.

Tomatoes "Bull's heart" are stored for approximately two weeks, without losing their taste. This can be done in the refrigerator or in a cool dark place. Putting tomatoes over the tail should be up, preferably in one row.

Since tomatoes are unsuitable for canning whole, they are used more for harvesting salads or dressings, as well as for ketchup or sauces. For juice, they are also not suitable, as they are not very juicy.

Tomatoes "Bull's heart" is a high quality variety that has proven itself well among many gardeners. Its fruits are distinguished by their taste and high yield.

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