Tomato today is one of the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. With the advent of new, unpretentious and disease-resistant varieties, it has become easier to get a rich harvest of this tasty and healthy vegetable. This article will focus on the Petrusha tomato variety, which is well known to many gardeners, or as it is also called Petrusha Gardener.
Description
Tomato “Petrusha gardener” is a representative of a hybrid variety. Tomato seedlings can be planted both in the garden and in the greenhouse. The yield when planted in open ground is much higher than in the greenhouse method of growing, so the best conditions for the growth and development of the plant are fresh air and soft sunlight.
The bushes of the Petrusha Gardener tomato variety are small in height: only 60 cm. Despite this, the yield of the variety is good.
The fruits of the tomato “Petrusha” are painted in a rich scarlet color, have an oblong cylindrical shape, reminiscent, as you can see in the photo, the cap of the character of fairy tales Petrushka. It is thanks to the shape of the fruit that the variety got its name.
The mass of one mature vegetable ranges from 200 to 250 grams. The pulp is dense, juicy, sweet in taste.
In cooking, the variety is used for canning and pickling, as well as the preparation of juices, sauces, tomato paste and ketchups.
Advantages and disadvantages
Tomato “Petrusha gardener” has a number of distinctive advantages that favorably distinguish it from other varieties of tomatoes, such as:
- no need for pinching a bush;
- long period of fruiting;
- good dry season tolerance;
- resistance to a wide range of tomato diseases;
- universality of application.
Of the shortcomings, only the obligatory observance of the rules and conditions of cultivation, as well as the care of the plant, should be noted. It is this factor that has a great influence on productivity.
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