Almost every person who has a summer cottage with a vegetable garden grows tomatoes. Before you start planting tomatoes, you need to decide on the variety to grow. Quite often, vegetable growers grow the Sweet Donut tomato on their plots.
Short description
Before planting a tomato, you need to study its characteristics and description. With their help you can find out a lot of useful information about this variety.
Sweet donut differs from other tomatoes in its high yield and resistance to all common tomato diseases.The variety is universal, since it can be grown both in greenhouses and on the streets.
During cultivation, the bushes can grow up to one meter.
Therefore, if the plant grows outside, you will have to take care of its garter. It is needed to protect the plant from strong gusts of wind that can break the tomato stem. You will also have to start pruning the bushes. During this procedure, you will have to get rid of all the extra stepsons that may interfere with the formation of the fruit.
The fruits are quite round, round in shape and bright yellow in color. If you grow them under optimal conditions, the weight of one tomato will be equal to 200 grams. Thanks to such large tomatoes, it will be possible to harvest 6-8 kilograms of tomatoes from one bush.
Planting seeds
Sweet Donut seeds are planted to produce young seedlings in the first half of March. If it is planned that the plant will be transplanted into the ground only in the summer, then you can plant the seeds in early April.
Seed preparation
Before you start planting, you should disinfect the seed. To do this, all the seeds will have to be soaked in a weak solution made from manganese. A gram of the substance is diluted with a liter of water and mixed. Then you need to add seeds placed in a fabric bag to the container. The seeds should be soaked for 20-40 minutes, after which they are removed from the solution and washed with water.
They can also be treated with a growth stimulator, which will speed up the process of seed germination several times. Such drugs as Zircon or Epin-Extra are perfect for this. The planting material should be processed for about 20 minutes.
Planting
It is recommended to plant the sweet donut in special cassettes, which should be filled with nutritious soil in advance. It is recommended to use loose soil so that the first shoots appear faster.
Before planting, the soil in the containers needs to be slightly moistened. After this, small holes are made in each cell for planting seeds. Their size should not exceed 2-3 cm. One seed should be planted in each hole. Then all cassettes with tomatoes are covered with film and transferred for further germination to a lighted room.
Planting seedlings
Seedlings should be transplanted into open ground 2-3 months after planting the seeds. This time will be enough for the tomatoes to have a well-strengthened root system.
Site selection
Tomatoes love well-lit areas and therefore the area where they will be grown should be as open as possible. Since Sweet Donut is a tall variety, care must be taken to protect it from the wind. It is recommended to plant it in an area surrounded by a low fence that could protect the plants from wind gusts.
Planting seedlings
It is necessary to plant seedlings in previously prepared soil. A few weeks before replanting, a heated solution of vitriol should be added to the site, which will protect the young bushes from pests. It is also necessary to add a little superphosphate with humus and ash to the soil. After this, the entire area should be dug up with a shovel.
When the area is completely prepared, you can begin planting. First you need to dig the required number of holes at a distance of about 50-60 cm from each other. Then seedlings are placed in each hole in a vertical position. After this, they are sprinkled with soil and compacted.After planting all the seedlings, a metal or wooden support should be installed near each bush for further support.
Conclusion
The sweet donut is suitable for those gardeners who want to get a large amount of harvest. To grow this variety of tomato, you need to familiarize yourself with some of the nuances of this process and study the reviews of gardeners who have been growing Sweet Donut in their gardens for many years.
