Tomatoes The rocket is a medium-early variety. Description and photo

Tomatoes The rocket is a tomato variety popular with Russian vegetable growers , grown on open beds. The peculiarities of culture and the conditions of its productive cultivation will be discussed in the article.

Description

Rocket Tomatoes form a compact, neat, low shrub bush, reaching only 0.4-0.6 m in height. The plant is characterized by a weak leafy shoots and markedly shortened internodes on them. The compactness of the bush allows one to plant up to 12 plants, normally developing and not depressing each other, on one square meter. Productivity at similar plantings reaches 7 kg.

The inflorescence, in each of which up to 6-8 fetuses on the wrist are tied, begins after the sixth leaf, later - after each pair of leaves. Up to 4 inflorescences are formed on the main shoot. Simultaneous ripening and high resistance to apical rot and traditional root diseases is demonstrated by the Rocket Tomato. Comments of vegetable growers cultivating a variety unanimously emphasize the absence of problems in the development of the bush at all stages and the good productivity of the crop.

Fruit

Tomatoes The rocket is a medium-born variety. Fruits completely ripen for 110-130 days from the moment of planting. Tomatoes are elongated plum-oval, with a slightly pointed tip, bright red, glossy, smooth, with dense pulp, reach a weight of 35-60 g. Fruits that have excellent commercial qualities are also distinguished by their high taste properties. In addition, the variety successfully transports transportation and is kept well in a cellar or refrigerator environment. Tomatoes are eaten fresh in salads and cooked. The sort is especially appreciated by the owners and procuring organizations for the possibility of whole-fruit canning.

Agrotechnics and care

The variety is cultivated in open ridges. Seeds are sown for seedlings in the 20-th of March, closing them 1-2 cm. With the emergence of shoots 2-5 leaves seedlings dive, placing them in separate containers. Seedlings are fed with mineral complexes every 10-15 days, dissolving fertilizers in water for irrigation in accordance with the recommended in the annotation to the drug standards. In the prepared ridges, young plants are planted in late May - early June, applying the scheme 40 * 50, or 40 * 40 with deliberate thickening of plantations. Fruiting begins in the second half of July.

Tomatoes The missile is undemanding in care, but the care shown (regular watering and timely feeding) responds by increasing the productivity of the bush and the taste qualities of the fruit.