Summer residents who devote all their free time to their plots often plant crops for decoration. Garden Pearl tomatoes have exactly these characteristics. It is often planted for one’s own pleasure and for the joy of young children.
Features of the variety
To better understand how to grow tomatoes on a plot, you need to study the description of the variety. This will help you avoid many troubles and get an excellent harvest.
Plant:
- Bush: determinate.
- Stem: creeping.
- Height: 20–40 cm.
- Ripening time: 85–95 days.
- Number of tomatoes per brush: 8–10 pcs.
Fruit:
- Shape: round.
- Weight: 15–20 g.
- Pink colour.
- Density: medium.
- Taste: excellent.
- Transportability: high.
- Shelf life: 1 month.
Care and planting
You can grow “Garden Pearl” tomatoes in a greenhouse, open ground, balconies and loggias, or to decorate gardens in containers.
Seeds for seedlings for greenhouses can be planted at the end of February. Then it will bear its first fruits by the end of spring. For planting in open ground, sow in mid-spring.
Can be planted in baskets that are easy to hang. The bush will grow and its branches will go down. Hanging pink fruits will decorate any area.
There are no special features when growing. Tomatoes do not require the formation of a bush. To achieve a better result, you can tie them to a vertical support. Then the ripening fruits will not lie on the ground.
There is no need to water often; the roots may rot and the plant will disappear. Weeding, hilling and loosening as needed. The plant is very compact, 1 m2 You can arrange 7–9 plants.
Harvest volume and application
The yield, as the description of the variety shows, is high. One plant can produce up to 10 kg of fruit. The peculiarity of the “Garden Pearl” is that the more fruits you pick from a bush, the longer it bears fruit.
The application is very diverse. Suitable for decorating the festive table, preparing fresh, early salads. Canned whole, used for small-fruit canning. You can prepare sauces, ketchups, juices and tomato paste.
Positive and negative aspects of the species.
Ranking the characteristics into positive and negative will help the gardener decide whether it is worth planting this or that type of tomato on the plot.
Pros:
- High yield volume.
- Undemanding.
- Excellent fruit characteristics (transportability, presentation, shelf life)
- Tomatoes do not crack.
- Not a hybrid.
- Due to its compact size, you can place many bushes in a small area.
- Used to decorate plots and gardens.
Minuses:
- Demanding about soil and lighting.
The opinion of summer residents regarding the Garden Pearl tomatoes
Reviews from gardeners are very popular. They provide especially great help to the beginning gardener. They contain useful information on how to properly grow a particular variety, how to care for and shape plants.
- Irina. Calls tomatoes the long-liver of the greenhouse. Grown for fresh eating and whole canning. My husband's favorite treat.
“Garden Pearl” belongs to the category of cherry tomatoes. Fans of small tomatoes often plant it to decorate their garden.
