Tomato Pepper: description
The pepper-shaped tomato has an unusual shape, similar to sweet bell peppers. Tomatoes have a pleasant sweetish taste and firm skin and are especially good for canning. This variety has its own growing characteristics that must be taken into account in order to obtain a rich harvest.
Description of pepper tomatoes
Pepper-shaped tomato varieties are quite numerous. They differ in the size of the bush, color and size of the fruit. All varieties have an average growing season of about 120 days, fruiting from July to the end of September.
A pepper-shaped tomato can be of different colors, but its shape always resembles a pepper
Ripe tomatoes weigh from 80 to 100 grams, with good care – 150 grams. Depending on the variety, they can be yellow, orange or red, taste fleshy, sweet, crumbly, with a small amount of seeds.
Popular varieties:
- “Pepper Giant”;
- “Pepper red”;
- “Pepper yellow”;
- “Pepper striped”;
- “Fortress”.
The bushes are tall, some varieties grow up to 2 meters, the fruits are collected in bunches of 4-9 berries each. Pepper tomatoes are suitable for outdoor and greenhouse cultivation. They need special care – garter, pinching, bush shaping.
Growing pepper tomatoes, reviews
Tomatoes are a thermophilic culture; seedlings are planted in open ground in late May, early June. Seeds are sown in early March in small peat or plastic cups. When two leaves appear at the seedlings, they dive. It takes about 2 months to grow seedlings.
The beds for tomatoes are sunny, protected from the wind. Plants prefer light and nutritious soil, with the addition of organic fertilizers.
The best predecessors are pumpkin, peas, beets or carrots; you cannot plant tomatoes after physalis, peppers or potatoes
Usually two plants are planted per 1 sq. m. The yield of the variety depends on proper care and averages 4,5 kg of tomatoes from one bush.
Plants are formed into 1 or 2 stems and must be tied to a support. Stepchildren need to be removed in a timely manner so that the plant does not get stressed during this procedure and does not fade. This is best done in dry, sunny weather.
Watering tall tomatoes, according to the reviews of experienced gardeners, you need more often low-growing varieties, in dry weather this is done every 3 days. A month after planting in open ground, the plants are fed with complex mineral or organic fertilizers.
To grow tomatoes of an unusual shape for conservation, you can plant one of the pepper-shaped varieties. Plants need careful care, they are tied up, stepchildren, watered and fed.