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A self-respecting vegetable grower stocks up on reliable varieties of tomatoes in order to get a rich harvest of delicious fruits with minimal labor. The Niagara tomato is one such variety. This is a hybrid obtained by breeders not so long ago, so few people know about it.
That is why we decided to devote an article to the Niagara variety so that it takes its place in the beds and in the greenhouses of s. We will present to your attention the information at our disposal about the Niagara tomato with a characteristic, variety description, photo and video.
Description and characteristics of the variety
More about the features of the bush
Now let’s look at the features of the variety in more detail:
- Tomatoes are indeterminate, which means that the main stem does not stop growing during the entire growing season. Tomatoes of this variety are tall, in the presence of space in the greenhouse they grow above a person of average height.
- The root system is powerful, so the plant can withstand a slight drought, which is especially important for summer residents who do not have the opportunity to often come to the site. But the stem, in comparison with tall varieties, is thin. Gardeners in their reviews note this feature. In addition, they report that when growing Niagara tomatoes for the first time, they were afraid that they would not get the proper harvest. But their fears were not justified. Despite the apparent fragility, the plant forms powerful flower brushes. Just a bush you need to tie up all summer.
- As a rule, they form a tomato in one or two stems. Although you can experiment, like some of our readers. They left 4 stems and got a good result, only the fruits were not so large.
- Flower brushes appear through one internode, with good care on the plant, you can count up to 10-12 brushes. In each of them up to 14 fruits are tied. The brushes are long and strong. Judging the yield of Niagara tomato, according to reviews and photos (see below), is quite possible: it is excellent.
A few words about fruits
Fruits are oval, with a pipette. Many call them cream. On the brush, Niagara tomatoes are almost the same size, weighing 80-100 grams. On a plant grown in one trunk, you can get fruits of about 120 grams.
Tomatoes ripen, as a rule, on the vine, and the process occurs non-simultaneously, from which in the greenhouse or in the open field there is a real rainbow from the multicolor of even one variety. Look at the photo and see for yourself!
Three-chamber tomatoes, medium-sized seeds. The skin is dense, but there is no rigidity. The fruits are good for canning, they never fall apart. The pulp is fleshy, sweet. Sourness is felt, but it is pleasant to the taste. Tomato paste and tomato juice are thick and tasty.
Pros and cons of the variety
Advantages of the variety
Without knowing the characteristics of the Niagara tomato variety, it is difficult to decide on its cultivation. At least some information can already be extracted from the description, reviews of gardeners and photos presented in the article:
- Niagara tomatoes, photos of which are a little lower, are of medium early ripening. After sowing seeds for seedlings, it takes from 100 to 120 days to collect the first fruits. Moreover, there is no difference from whether you grow them in a greenhouse or open ground.
- Temperature fluctuations do not adversely affect fruit set. Even in cold or hot summers, as gardeners who have been dealing with the variety for more than one year note in reviews of the Niagara tomato, the yield practically does not fall. From one tall variety of Niagara tomato, according to gardeners, they collect about 10 kg of smooth cream. Just look at the photo, how tomatoes grow together.
- Fruiting stretches for almost a month. The first fruits ripen in July, and you can harvest until mid-August. It is at this time that the peak of maturation.
- Many diseases and pests of the Niagara tomato are not terrible. As a rule, there is no vertex rot on the fruits, late blight is also a sharp guest. Most often, the defeat of this disease is observed in a very rainy summer. And this cannot but please gardeners who dream of spending a minimum of time in the garden for care, and even more so for treating plants from diseases.
- Niagara has excellent keeping quality. Fruits keep a trade dress and tastes up to New Year’s holidays. Sometimes the tip may dry out, but putrefactive processes do not develop.
- In care, the Niagara tomato variety is unpretentious: watering, weeding, loosening and top dressing are carried out in the same way as with other plants. In tall tomatoes, it is necessary to break off the lower leaves and stepchildren, leaving a stump of at least 1 cm.
- Seeds are sown for seedlings in March. When 2-3 true leaves appear, they dive. Seedlings are planted in open ground when stable positive temperatures are established, somewhere in late May or early June (depending on the region and climatic conditions of spring). In the greenhouse, of course, early. The distance between the bushes is 25-30 cm. This is enough for Niagara.
Cons
We practically found out the advantages of the Niagara variety, but we will also say about the disadvantages:
- The low germination of seeds is depressing for gardeners. Sometimes out of 10 seemingly healthy seeds, only one sprout appears. By soaking the seeds of the Niagara variety in a peroxide solution, germination can be slightly increased.
- Ripe fruits cannot hang on the brush for a long time and fall to the ground under the breath of the wind or touch.
- The disadvantages of the Niagara tomato variety, some vegetable growers include the need to tie the stem and brushes throughout the summer.
An excellent variety for greenhouses and open ground:
