Usually gardeners boast about their tomatoes and the mass of fruit. If you manage to grow a Spanish giant tomato and get even a few tasty fruits from it, then this is a great success. One tomato is enough to feed the whole family with salad.
Spanish giant is the best among large-fruited varieties
Many farmers distinguish tomato varieties that produce fruits weighing five hundred grams or more. These include the mid-late Spanish giant. In addition to the large mass of the tomato, it is given the following characteristics:
- The height of the bush can reach from two to three meters.
- No more than ten to eleven fruits are borne on the stems.
- The average weight of a tomato reaches three hundred and fifty grams.
- The yield is high: from one bush you can collect five to seven kilograms of fruit.
- The shape of the tomatoes resembles a plum with an elongated spout and a soft red color.
- The juicy pulp contains a large percentage of dry matter and some seeds.
- The fruits are suitable for fresh consumption and vegetable cuttings.
Warmth is important for this variety; it does not tolerate temperature changes, so it is better to grow it in greenhouses.
How to grow tomatoes
A heat-loving tomato plant, prefers areas with a hot climate. There are all conditions for rapid development and high yields. The rays of the sun, warm wind, and soft rain help the fruits to ripen quickly. In temperate climates, such varieties, giants, are best planted in seedlings.
Preparing seedlings
Vegetable growers know that the future tomato harvest largely depends on the seedlings and their quality. Almost everything has to do with when the tomatoes were sown and how they were cared for.
If in the southern regions you can sow a vegetable plant at the end of February, then in a temperate climate - in mid-March. You can determine the timing yourself if you count 55-65 days from the end of frost. Sowing of Spanish Giant tomatoes for the greenhouse begins two weeks earlier.
Create tomato shoots necessary conditions are:
- a lot of light;
- high humidity;
- air temperature from 18 to 25 degrees above zero.
Preparation for sowing tomatoes plays an important role. It includes disinfection of seeds and soil. The seed material goes through the stage of treatment with a solution of potassium permanganate for twenty minutes, baking soda (0.5 grams per half glass of water).It helps to keep the seeds healthy by placing them in liquid Fitosporin for two hours.
The soil is calcined in the oven for ten minutes, maintaining a temperature of two hundred degrees. You can spill the soil with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate. Disinfection methods are combined or chosen the most suitable for yourself.
Ten days after the procedures, they begin to plant the seeds. They are sealed to a depth of one centimeter. The distance between seedlings should not be small, otherwise the seedlings will not have enough nutrients.
Boxes with seedlings are placed in a warm place, covered with film, and often moistened. Usually after three to four days the plants begin to hatch. Sprouts require care in the form of:
- regular watering;
- backlight 16 hours a day;
- ventilation;
- heat;
- sunbathing;
- feeding every three weeks.
If the plantings are crowded, as soon as two or three true leaves appear, seedlings begin to pick.
The signal for transferring tomatoes to the greenhouse is the laying of the first flower clusters. Ten days later, the seedlings are planted in closed ground.
Planting in a greenhouse
Prepared greenhouses are supplied with healthy soil, which must be disinfected. The earth is poured in a layer of seventeen centimeters on layers of manure. To prevent the appearance of pathogenic fungi, the manure should be powdered with wood ash or lime fluff. Tomatoes love nutritious soil with high permeability to water and air. The universal composition will be a mixture of chernozem and peat.
Seedlings should be planted in a greenhouse on a windless day, in the evening. The tomato stems are well buried.
Tall Spanish giant tomatoes need proper care. Its description includes:
- Bush formation. You can leave one stem or two.Then, in addition to the main shoot, a powerful stepson is needed under the first flower cluster.
- It is better to leave up to seven or eight flower clusters on tomatoes.
- After the clusters have formed, the top of the main stem is pinched.
- Tall tomatoes require a mandatory garter.
- In addition to moderate watering, to preserve moisture, mulch the soil with a layer of straw and peat.
- Greenhouses are ventilated by monitoring the air temperature. It should not rise above 29 degrees Celsius.
- Fertilizers use both organic matter and minerals every ten days.
Giant fruits should be collected as they ripen. Brown, placed in a dry and warm room for ripening.
According to reviews from vegetable growers, the Spanish Giant variety is distinguished by its rapid ripening. I like tomatoes for their excellent taste and meaty fruit. They are instantly eaten by children and adults in the summer.
