The Mishka clubfoot tomato is a prominent representative of high-yielding varieties, which regularly receives positive feedback from vegetable growers and has established itself as a crop that can be grown in almost every region of Russia. This variety is considered to be quite new and very promising.
Description of the variety
This tomato can be grown in any part of our country. The clubfoot bear grows well both in the ground and in greenhouses. A vegetable grower, as a rule, does not have any concerns about storing fruits: Mishka boasts excellent shelf life and the ability to be transported over any distance.
During the harvesting process, it is not necessary to wait until the tomatoes are completely ripe: the clubfooted bear ripens perfectly in a warm room, the taste of the fruit becomes as good as if the tomatoes ripened on the bush.
The only condition for ripening tomatoes at home is room temperature. It’s good if the parameters are within the range of 20 – 22 °C: the description of the tomato Mishka clubfoot contains information about exactly these temperature indicators.
Sweet juicy fruits with yellow or any other color are best consumed fresh. You can use them to make salad, ketchup, and sauce. Tomato juice, which is made from the fruits of the clubfoot bear, is always tasty and fresh. It can be drunk both fresh and canned.
Russian breeders bred Mishka clubfoot, obtaining a variety devoid of many properties that did not suit summer residents and agronomists. Tomatoes of this variety can be grown in any region. Depending on the prevailing climatic conditions, it is necessary to decide whether to plant a tomato in a greenhouse or plant it in open ground.
It should be remembered that this plant is indeterminate, tall, and the vegetative mass is formed quite moderately. The choice of landing site should be determined taking these facts into account.
Harvested raspberry tomatoes are easy to store and transport. The fruits can be picked green: tomatoes will quickly turn red if stored in a warm, dry room at room temperature.
Varieties
Currently, the tomato Mishka clubfoot is available in four varieties. There are no significant differences between them, however, some nuances should be taken into account when choosing seeds for planting.
The clubfoot bear is presented in the following variants:
- Tomato yellow Teddy bear.The height of the bush reaches 1.9 meters. The fruits are yellow, the pulp is sweet, tasty, dense. The average weight of one fruit is 0.8 kg. The species is resistant to damage by Alternaria, tobacco mosaic, and Fusarium.
- Teddy bear orange. The powerful bush requires constant pinching and is formed into two stems. The color of the fruit is bright orange, the shape is ribbed, heart-shaped. The size is large, resistance to disease development is very high.
- Teddy bear pink. A tomato bush with medium-sized leaves, the maximum height can reach one and a half meters. The fruits are drop-shaped and have a glossy surface. Tomatoes have a large mass that can surprise even experienced vegetable growers: tomatoes can weigh 0.9 - 1 kg. The yield of the crop is high, the ripening period is average.
- Red clubfoot bear. The foliage is average, the maximum height is up to 190 centimeters. The fruits are very large, heart-shaped, with a weight sometimes reaching 0.8 - 0.9 kg. The taste of this tomato is not sour, richly sweet. It is better to grow in a greenhouse.
Whatever type of Teddy Bear the vegetable grower plants, you can always be sure of getting a rich harvest and excellent taste of the fruit.
Advantages of the variety
The characteristics and description of the tomato variety Mishka clubfoot will not leave anyone indifferent. The variety has a number of advantages:
- excellent taste;
- high productivity;
- increased content of substances beneficial to the body;
- ease of cultivation;
- resistance to diseases;
- possibility of long-term transportation.
Gardeners who have been growing Tomato Bear tomatoes for many years can also name certain disadvantages, leaving only truthful reviews.First of all, the disadvantages include the need to form a bush and the increased demands of the variety on the quality characteristics of the soil. Tomato Mishka requires that the soil substrate contains garden soil, wood ash and humus.
The varied color scheme fully corresponds to the characteristics of the Mishka Kosolatoy tomatoes, decorating any feast. But this will only become possible if all the necessary conditions for caring for seedlings and adult bushes planted in the ground are met.
How to grow
The most important thing that you need to know before sowing seedlings is the fact that it is recommended to grow this tomato by planting seedlings. To ensure maximum quality of the material, it is necessary to sow from March 15 to early April. The depth should be 1–15 cm.
The phase of two true leaves is a signal to start picking. When growing seedlings, it is necessary to apply mineral fertilizers several times. 10–14 days before transplanting plants into the ground, you need to start hardening the seedlings by taking them out onto the balcony. Before planting, you need to make sure that the distance between the proposed bushes is at least 0.5 meters. You can place the bushes from each other in the same row at a distance of 0.3 - 0.4 meters.
To ensure a better harvest, experienced summer residents give advice: deformed flowers and leaves should be removed, and the growing point should be pinched.
The process of applying fertilizing must be treated carefully. It is important that organic fertilizers should not be applied at the time of planting.
At this time, it is better to feed the plants with complex fertilizer containing phosphate and potassium.In the future, given that the clubfoot bear is very picky about the composition of the soil, the application of mineral and organic fertilizers should be alternated.
Watering a tomato bear requires close attention. Tomatoes are a crop that loves moisture, but in moderation. Irrigation is best done with settled water at a comfortable temperature. When watering plants abundantly, it is important not to overdo it, because excess moisture can destroy the bush.
One of the features of cultivating tomatoes of the Mishka clubfoot variety is the need to mulch the soil. This helps reduce water consumption and relieve the vegetable grower from a certain part of the activities that are carried out to water the plants in the greenhouse. Mulch helps reduce the number of weeds that do not thrive in less than ideal conditions.
Practice shows that if the soil mulching method was used when growing tomatoes in a greenhouse, the yield volume can increase by 25% compared to bare soil - these are the features of agricultural technology. The ripening period of tomatoes becomes shorter, in some cases we are talking about one and a half to two weeks.
