Description of the tomato variety Office romance, features of cultivation and care
Modern gardeners have high demands on tomatoes, which are not easy to meet. The office romance tomato has all the necessary qualities to take pride of place in the beds. Fruits of high quality with a unique taste cannot but attract attention.
Description of the variety
Office Romance is an excellent early ripening variety intended for outdoor cultivation. The bushes are compact, their height does not exceed half a meter. The characteristic of the variety indicates a high yield and undemanding care. The tomato can withstand unfavorable climatic conditions without losing the marketability and taste of the fruit. Disease resistance at a high level.
The shape of the tomatoes is somewhat elongated. At maturity, the color of the fruit is deep red, uniform. The pulp is dense, sugary, with excellent taste. The mass of one tomato is up to 120 grams. The office romance tomato is grown not only in summer cottages, but also on an industrial scale. The harvested crop is suitable for long-term storage, transportation over long distances.
Advantages and disadvantages
Office romance has a number of advantages that distinguish it favorably from competitors:
- early ripening;
- increased resistance to verticillary wilt;
- resistance to fusarium;
- high productivity;
- versatility of using tomatoes;
- high sugar content in the pulp;
- pleasant individual taste;
- possibility of transportation and long-term storage;
- compactness of the bush;
- a small number of seed chambers.
As the description shows, there are no significant shortcomings in the Service novel variety. Fruits of a small size are not to everyone's liking, but this small minus is fully offset by numerous advantages.
Growing features
Tomato seeds for growing seedlings are sown in March or early April... Planting depth - 1 cm. After the appearance of two true leaves, they begin to pick. For the entire growing season, seedlings are fed three times with complex fertilizers. It is kept in a well-lit room with a temperature of 20-25 ° C.
A week before planting in open ground, they begin to harden the tomatoes. Office romance. For this, the plants are taken out into the open air every day, avoiding direct sunlight. The residence time is increased every day, starting from a few hours. Tomatoes are planted in open ground as soon as the threat of night spring frosts has passed. By this time, the first flower cluster is usually formed on the seedlings. The planting of the Office Romance variety is carried out according to the scheme of 30 × 50 cm.
Planting care consists in regular systematic watering and loosening of the soil. Weed control and tomato feeding are carried out. Despite the fact that tomatoes of this variety are resistant to diseases, measures to prevent fungal diseases will be useful. For this purpose, the beds are treated with Bordeaux mixture. For the whole season, no more than three additional fertilizing with complex fertilizers is carried out.
Office romance is used both for cultivation in private household plots and on an industrial scale. The harvested crop is used for conservation, preparation of tomato paste, juices, fresh consumption, sale. In adverse weather conditions, it is still possible to harvest a decent harvest of tasty fruits.
