The tomato season is short: ripe fruits are used for their intended purpose, green ones ripen in the dark for several weeks. The New Year's tomato provides an opportunity to eat fresh berries from your own beds at the festive table.
What’s so special about this variety?
A gardener grows tomatoes, processes them, and dreams of keeping them fresh longer. I really want to cut a salad from a normal tomato! Regular varieties last until early November.
The breeders of the Gavrish company pleased the hardworking summer residents. The New Year variety is created for winter consumption.
Description of tomato:
- indeterminate variety;
- the bush grows up to 150 cm;
- bears fruit in open ground and unheated greenhouses;
- late ripening period (140 days from loops to fruit harvesting);
- prone to being overgrown with leaves;
- dark green plates;
- the first brush is formed after the 9th leaf;
- competent agricultural technology will ensure a yield of 3.5 kg/m².
Gardeners are attracted by the variety’s resistance to TMV, fusarium, and cladosporiosis. To protect against late blight, you should monitor the weather, use preventive spraying with copper-containing preparations (according to instructions) or serum (1 liter per 10 liters of water, ten drops of iodine).
Breeders have worked on the properties of tomatoes. Tomatoes are picked unripe. They ripen in a dark, warm place. It is necessary to cover the box with a cloth: this will prevent drying out.
Some gardeners salt and marinate small fruits whole. Tomatoes do not crack and decorate canned food.
What grows on the bushes
Tomatoes are very decorative. At the stage of technical maturity, the bright berries look like Christmas tree balls. The bushes are strewn with them.
Fruit characteristics:
- weight up to 150 g;
- spherical, flattened shape;
- the berry is ribbed at the top;
- ripe tomato yellow-orange;
- 4-5 seed chambers with small seeds;
- dense pulp;
- hard skin.
Tomatoes taken from the bush are inferior to tomatoes of another variety. The value of New Year's Eve is storage for 3-5 months without loss of marketability and taste.
Advice from agronomists
To enjoy the tomato harvest at the end of the year, you should follow the growing rules:
- plant seedlings on March 10-15;
- picking in the phase of one true leaf;
- fertilizing with mineral fertilizer for seedlings;
- illumination with an agricultural lamp;
- hardening, ventilation;
- moderate watering;
- fill the soil with complete mineral fertilizer (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus);
- placement on beds at the age of 50 days (6 true leaves);
- adding calcium nitrate during planting will strengthen the plants (1 tablespoon per hole, sprinkle with soil);
- planting pattern: 40 cm x 60 cm;
- It is recommended to mulch the soil (to facilitate maintenance);
- must be formed into 1 stem;
- to lighten the ovaries;
- brushes and stems need to be tied;
- Do not overexpose ripe fruits on the bushes.
The advantage of the variety is the resistance of the fruit to cracking. But you should water it moderately: 5-6 liters per bush after the soil has completely dried. It is optimal to arrange drip irrigation. It is recommended to place 4 plants per m² of area.
Gardeners' opinions
Hardworking summer residents give polarizing reviews about New Year's Eve. I liked it: keeping quality, color, transportability, possibility of whole-fruit canning. I was pleasantly surprised by the tomato’s immunity to disease.
Disappointed:
- dull taste of fruits taken from the bush;
- pulp too dense;
- hard skin.
Gardeners are upset about the late ripening period. In regions with short summers, it is difficult to grow tomatoes outdoors.
Summer residents are unanimous: in winter, a New Year’s tomato grown independently in winter is tastier than a store-bought one.
