Fans of large early tomatoes with excellent taste will like the Amur Zarya tomato. It is undemanding in care, produces a stable harvest and is resistant to major diseases.
Description of the variety
According to the stated characteristics, the tomato belongs to the mid-early varieties and the first fruits begin to ripen 105–110 days after emergence. The leaves are large and light green in color.
The fruits are round, slightly flattened, smooth. Medium density pulp. When ripe, the tomato has a beautiful pink color. There are 4 or more seed nests.The weight of one tomato can be up to 250 grams. The taste is simply excellent. It is used mainly for fresh consumption, less often for processing. Keeping quality and transportability are not very good. From one square meter you can collect up to 7 kg of ripe fruits.
Advantages of the variety
From the personal experience of those gardeners who planted Amur Zarya on their plots, the advantages of these tomatoes became obvious. First of all, it is worth mentioning:
- possibility of getting an early harvest;
- large fruit size;
- excellent taste;
- low maintenance requirements;
- no need for constant stepsoning;
- the ability to grow both in open ground and under film;
- good resistance to major diseases.
These advantages of the variety allowed it to take an honorable place in the garden beds. Summer residents are even ready to turn a blind eye to poor transportability and keeping quality, because the unique strong aroma and sweetish taste of tomatoes can compensate for these small shortcomings.
Features of cultivation
It is better to sow Amur Zori tomato seedlings in March or early April. This way you can get an earlier harvest. Seeds are sown in special seedling boxes.
Universal soil is quite suitable. During the growth process, young plants need to be fertilized several times with complex mineral fertilizers. A week before planting in a permanent place of growth, the seedlings begin to be hardened by exposing them to the open air for several hours. It is important to avoid direct sunlight.
Growing tomatoes prefer loose and fertile soil. Under no circumstances should you add fresh manure before planting; it is better to use humus for this.You can fertilize with a complex of minerals. Feeding is especially important during the period when the ovary begins to form and the fruits begin to fill.
The Amur Zarya tomato, whose positive reviews and descriptions simply entice you to have it on your plot, does not require special care. The plant must be promptly removed from weeds, weeded and fed.
Tomatoes do not like high air humidity, so watering should be moderate. In order to prevent the development of fungal diseases and pest damage, the soil must be treated with wood ash.
It is advisable to spray the bushes with Bordeaux mixture. If there is activity of the Colorado potato beetle in the region, then before harvesting, the bushes must be treated with a product specifically designed to combat this pest. When the first fruits begin to ripen, all chemical treatments must be stopped.
Amur Zarya has proven itself well as a salad tomato variety. Those who grew these tomatoes, year after year, give the pink beauties a place of honor in their garden.
