Judging by the reviews, tomatoes of the Budenovka variety (photo and description later in the article) are intended for lazy and busy gardeners. They are unpretentious, give a stable high yield. They can be grown both in open ground and in a greenhouse, under film shelters. If you give them a little attention, the plants will thank many delicious fruits.
Description
The characteristic of Budenovka tomato is able to interest even the most sophisticated gardeners, farmers, beginners. The culture is often grown for market sale.
This variety is characterized by large fruits. Originator E.N. Andreev described the "budenovka" as a mid-early variety ripening on the 110th day after emergence. The first crop is harvested in mid-summer. Fruits the plant until September. The productivity of the Budenovka tomato is high. Fruits are red, fleshy, of an original heart-shaped form, with high transportability. Weight - up to 350 grams, individual specimens reach a weight of seven hundred or more grams.
Judging by the reviews, tomatoes of the Budenovka variety (photos, description are presented in the article) are an indeterminate species, reaching a height of 1.3 meters. The first inflorescence is laid over the ninth leaf, the next - every three leaves. The brush contains from three to eight fruits. When grown in greenhouses, the plant is taller than in open ground, but it is limited in growth at a height of one and a half meters.
Grade Advantages
A distinctive feature of the variety is high productivity. From one bush you can get up to eight kilograms of delicious fruits. With good agricultural technology, the yield indicator increases. The following is a description and photo. In the reviews, tomatoes of the Budenovka variety especially distinguish the following advantages:
- the plant can be grown in open and closed ground;
- the tomato is unpretentious in leaving, because of which it is often grown by small farms;
- excellent presentation of fruits;
- high palatability: balanced content of sugars and acids;
- juicy, aromatic pulp;
- universal purpose.
"Budenovka" is a domestic variety worthy of sale and suitable for long transportation.
Greenhouse cultivation
When growing tomato "budenovka" in a greenhouse, seedlings must be prepared in advance. The most friendly seedlings give seeds of their own production. But before sowing them, it is necessary to carry out preparatory measures:
- Calibration Harvested seeds are selected by size and weight using saline.
- Disinfection. It is carried out by soaking the seeds in a solution of potassium permanganate.
- The increase in germination. To improve germination, it is recommended to pre-soak the seeds in a growth stimulator.
- Soil preparation. The soil should be loose, nutritious. It is best to use ready-made mixtures for planting tomato seedlings for sowing.
A container is used in which seedlings will be grown. It should not be too deep, but not shallow. It is filled with soil, moistened from a spray bottle with warm, settled water. Then they sow the seeds, planting them in a substrate to a depth of 1.5 - 2 cm. At a temperature of 24 - 25 degrees, seedlings will appear after 5 - 7 days. As soon as the first two real leaves bloom in the seedlings, they are dived. It is best to use separate containers, but if there are a lot of seedlings, then the sprouts are planted, maintaining a distance of 10 cm.
It is not difficult to care for seedlings. It must be watered periodically to ensure daylight hours of at least 12 hours. Before planting seedlings, it is tempered.
A week before the expected date of transplanting seedlings into the greenhouse, beds are prepared: deep digging is carried out, the land is disinfected. About three to four days before planting, they introduce complex fertilizer, organic matter in the form of decayed manure, dry bird droppings. As soon as the seedlings and the greenhouse are ready, you can start planting, adhering to the 40 x 50 cm pattern.
Greenhouse care
When growing tomato in a greenhouse throughout the growing season, you must:
- carry out irrigation, but this should be done in the morning;
- water the plant should be warm water: it should have a temperature of 20 - 22 degrees;
- different methods of irrigation are used in the greenhouse, among which drip irrigation of bushes is considered the best.
In order for large fruits to grow on the bushes, a bush of 1-3 stems should be formed.
At the stage of active growth, plants are fed three times with liquid mullein, nitrophos. The first top dressing is performed a month after transplanting seedlings. The second - two weeks after the first, and the third time fertilizers are applied at the flowering stage.
To increase fruit set in the morning, shake the inflorescences. This improves pollination, stimulates the setting of tomatoes.
Outdoor cultivation
According to the description, photos, reviews, the tomato variety "budenovka" perfectly shows itself in the open ground. This method of growing is practically no different from the greenhouse: the plant also needs garter, top dressing, formation, watering. When growing in open ground, it is recommended to conduct a two-stem culture. With thickened plantings, it is necessary to remove the lower foliage to one third of the entire height of the stem. Otherwise, leaving in the exhaust gas is no different from greenhouse cultivation.
Harvest
A characteristic feature of the plant is a long period of fruit ripening. "Budenovka" - a tomato of large varieties, ripening from July to autumn. Moreover, the fruits ripen from the inside. Outwardly, the tomatoes look greenish, and inside are already fully ripe. Because of this feature, the crop is removed in the phase of brown or pink ripeness.
With proper agricultural technology, the tomato fruit can reach a weight of seven hundred grams, but most often the weight ranges from two hundred to four hundred grams.
Up to seven kilograms of tomatoes are obtained from one plant per season. All of them are even, fleshy, with soft pulp and a small seed box.
Using
Fresh tomatoes contain a large number of useful vitamins, minerals, including iron, potassium, and magnesium.
Variety "budenovka" can be consumed fresh, used for processing. Small specimens are suitable for whole-canning. Sauces, tomatoes, mashed potatoes, juices, lecho, and various pastas are made from large ones. Tomato slices are frozen.
Yield increase
There are ways to increase tomato productivity. To increase the yield, you should:
- Pinch the central root to stimulate the lateral roots. Such an action helps to form a powerful root system for the bush that can absorb more useful nutrients, which favorably affects the quality and quantity of the crop.
- Trimming of lateral roots to stimulate more powerful lateral branches. A shallow root system improves the supply of food to the aerial parts of the garden crop.
- Pinching the central point of growth of the main stem contributes to the formation of lateral shoots. This action helps to form a culture of 2-3 stems.
- Be sure to remove all side stepsons. They take away from the plant most of the nutrition and stretch the ripening of the fruit.
- Too close arrangement of bushes becomes the cause of increased growth of vegetative mass, reduces photosynthesis, and provokes various diseases. To avoid this, it is recommended to remove leaves from the bush.
- In the morning, carry out tapping on the bush. This procedure helps improve the setting of tomatoes: when tapped, self-pollination occurs. You can conduct processing with special preparations for fruit setting. It can be "Bud" or "Ovary", other means.
The crop is ideal for growing in large and mini-greenhouses.
Reviews
According to the reviews of gardeners who grow the variety on their sites, it differs from other tomatoes in its stable high yield, large fruits that have an original shape. Fully ripened tomato has fleshy flesh with a pronounced tomato aroma.
More about the variety can be found in the video below:
Gardeners grow tomatoes of this variety not only in open ground, but also in greenhouses. The variety is grown throughout the country for more than one year.
According to summer residents, the plant is affected by late blight as well as ordinary varieties. Because of this feature, Budenovka needs to be timely processed for prevention.
The quality of the crop is influenced not only by agricultural technology, the type of soil, but also the quality of the seeds. When buying seed, you should carefully study the information on the package, namely: expiration date, number of seeds, production date. When choosing a package, be sure to check for leaks.
Before sowing, the seeds themselves must be evaluated: they must have a plain, smooth surface. From this seed, an excellent tomato crop is obtained.