It's no secret that tomatoes are the most common fruit in the world. Yes - yes, from a botanical point of view, tomatoes are fruit, although we are accustomed to perceive them like vegetables. From the Italian language, the word "tomato" can be translated as the "Golden Apple", and the variety of Tomato "Giraffe" very accurately corresponds to this title.
Variety Tomato "Giraffe" refers to the category of late tomatoes. The bush is distinguished by tallness. Fruits begin to blush from the inside, have a rounded shape and pleasant yellow - orange. To store it is better to shoot offended fruits that begin to be built in late August, and they repented by November - January. The fruits of this variety are remarkable with its "effort" and can be ruined until June.The degree of pouring does not affect their safety. you can grow "Giraffe" both in the greenhouse and in the open soil.
If you decide grow tomato "giraffe" in the garden, keep in mind
that it is suitable for high blood, not heavy, soil. Good predecessors for tomatoes will be beans, onions, carrots, cabbage and cucumbers. Before planting seeds to seedlings, for the prevention of fungal diseases and mold, treat them with a weak solution of potassium mangartage, and then rinse with warm soft water. After the young seedlings appear the first pair of real leaves, it can be divened, or immediately fall into a greenhouse.
In the open ground, seedlings are planted in 55-70 days, the wells must be made at a distance of forty centimeters. As it grows it, it is necessary to form a reprehensive smooth stem, breaking the side shoots and tieting to the vertical support.
Watering Tomato "Giraffe" need to carry out warm and better rain water after the sun goes to avoid sunburn. During the whole period of vegetation, it is necessary to provide plants regular weeding, feeding. It is best for these purposes a special water-soluble complex fertilizer Aelita-vegetable ", providing actively growing plants by all the necessary nutrients. It is quite possible to use the "green" fertilizers cooked by their own hands.
The fruits of this variety of tomato are recommended to eat fresh or for cooking canned food. For salting, you can use both green and caused fruits. Fruits of Tomato "Giraffe" Keep your nutrient and vitamin properties even with long-term storage.
Care and growing tomato "Giraffe"
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Tomatoes grow up - prepare a lot of wooden peasants for garter. And I, when I transplant tomatoes, put one seed of sunflower into each well.
Sunflower quickly overtakes in the growth of tomato, and when the tomato should be taped, the sunflower already grows a rather thick stalk, which creates a solid support of the tomato, and it stretches up. By this time, the lower leaves of the sunflower are already falling apart, and the autumn grow very large baskets of sunflower, as moisture is enough for him. I collect two harvest from one bed.