The high-yielding tomato Prince Borghese is attractive for its small tomatoes that literally cover the bush. If you need a rich harvest of small, similar tomatoes, this variety is what you need. After all, it is easier to prepare marinades or salads from small fruits.
Description of the variety
This variety is also called Bourgeois Prince or Prince Borges. Appeared at the beginning of the last century in sunny Italy. It is considered a greenhouse plant. The fruits are plum-shaped with a small spout, weighing a couple of tens of grams. They grow on voluminous bushes, grown in a greenhouse in two or three stems.
The variety is indeterminate, tall, the plant reaches 1.5–2 meters in height. The fruits are small, but are located very often throughout the bush. A tomato is considered ripe when it turns red. When ripening, there is no brown spot on the tomatoes. They are all approximately the same size, which allows the variety in question to be used for canning.
In this form, tomatoes retain their flavor better than other varieties. Also ideal for drying and fresh consumption.
The taste of the fruit is sweet, the flesh is dense and juicy. In cross section, the fruit has three seed nests. Tomatoes are not susceptible to cracking. But they still need to be removed in time so that the green fruits have time to ripen.
Advantages of tomato
When growing the variety, gardeners highlight the following positive qualities of tomatoes:
- The variety brings a large harvest.
- The fruits have a unique sweet taste.
- Resistant to diseases.
- Tomatoes are stored for a long time and are easily transported without compromising their appearance and quality.
- Almost simultaneous ripening of fruits on one cluster.
- Only this variety can be converted into a dried form using olive oil. This dish is considered a delicacy in many countries around the world.
Rules for growing and caring for tomatoes
The variety is grown both in greenhouse conditions and in open ground. Tomatoes are mainly grown by planting seeds on seedlings and then replanting the seedlings in the ground. They are sown at least two months before transplantation. Due to the power of the bushes, they need to be tied to a support, and excess shoots must be removed. By performing these procedures, the seedling begins to set fruits, which appear two months after planting the seedlings.
Seed packets of 10 pieces each are usually on sale. The plant does not limit its growth and usually produces 3-4 stems.
Caring for plants consists of weeding, watering, fertilizing and neutralizing diseases. The bushes also need to be tied up and pinched.
Fertilizing is carried out with mineral and organic fertilizers. Cow manure and chicken manure, as well as superphosphates and urea, are suitable for this purpose. The amount of fertilizing should be taken into account. If overfertilized, plants may die.
So, after transplanting plants to a permanent place of growth, fertilizing is carried out three times:
- the first time 2 weeks after planting;
- the second - during flowering and fruit formation;
- third when the tomato ripens.
With constant care, the variety will delight its owners with the friendly yield of beautiful red fruits.
Review Reviews
Reviews from gardeners confirm his description regarding the fertility of the plant, the taste of tomatoes and methods of its use and storage. The fruits ripen quite slowly, however, when collected, they are well stored and reach the desired state. Tomatoes on the bush are located in a group and often, but as the height of the plant increases, the size of the fruit decreases.
One user of the tomato variety reports the following. Despite the low temperatures atypical for summer, a huge number of tomatoes were produced in 2017. The harvest is uniform in size, the tomatoes are sweet and tasty. The bourgeois prince does not demand royal conditions at all; he regulates his own growth. The tomato was grown in greenhouse conditions in the Moscow region and greatly pleased its owners.
