Today, many delicious varieties of tomatoes have appeared on the market. Among the new products is the “My Family” tomato. Let's find out what features this variety has, and what qualities it might interest a gardener.
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Distinctive features of the variety
This is a new variety of Siberian selection. The tomato plant “My Family” belongs to the determinant type, and reaches a height of 70–80 cm. The description of the variety says that it belongs to the mid-season varieties, grows both in greenhouses and in open ground. The yield from this tomato bushes is always excellent.
The characteristics of the fruit are as follows:
- Tomatoes reach a weight of 400 g (at the beginning of the season up to 600 g).
- The color is raspberry pink.
- The shape is round, slightly flattened, slightly ribbed.
- Excellent taste: sugary pulp and a tiny amount of seeds.
- Well expressed aroma.
“My Family” tomatoes can be eaten fresh or processed.
Growing and caring for plants
For sowing, take containers with drainage holes, fill them with soil and make 1 cm indentations. Sow the seeds at a distance of 4 cm. After sprinkling, moisten the substrate. The optimal temperature for plant sprouting is 25–30 °C. After 4 days, you can already expect the germination of young seedlings.
They are picked when each plant has a pair of true leaves. Tomatoes should be watered very carefully so as not to create favorable conditions for the development of blackleg disease.
The seedlings are planted in open ground or a greenhouse, not forgetting that the areas with tomatoes should be well lit by the sun. On each square meter, place 3-4 tomato bushes “My Family”.
Caring for plants consists of watering them, weeding them, loosening the soil, tying them up and timely removing the lower leaves. Fertilize tomatoes with liquid fertilizer. At the beginning of the growing season, they should be provided with nitrogen, and after fruit set - with potassium and phosphorus.
To get large bushes with fruit size appropriate for the variety, you need pinching tomatoes "My family". Since determinate bushes are usually low-growing, 3–4 stems are left on the plants.
Although these “My Family” tomato bushes have a certain resistance to major diseases, they must be treated with special means.
Description in the reviews of gardeners about the tomato variety “My Family”: “I am pleased with the high yield of plants and the excellent taste of the fruit.”
