Characteristics of the tomato variety Early love, its yield
Description of the tomato Early Love marks this variety as early maturing. Tomatoes have a lot of advantages (unpretentiousness in care, rapid ripening of fruits), but there is also a rather serious drawback - low yield.
If gardeners hope that with good care they will be able to get this tomato variety to give higher yields, then they will only try in vain. Anyway, the Early Love tomato is quite popular with summer residents, because you want to get a quick harvest in every season, even if the number of fruits is not very large.
It should be noted the reviews of those gardeners who have already planted Early Love: despite small yields, the fruits are very tasty and good not only fresh, but also for pickling.
History of creation
At the end of the last century, Russian breeders developed a new variety, which was previously named Early Love. Then, for a couple of years, this tomato was tested at the state level, and in 2001 it was officially registered. Recommended for growing in vegetable gardens and unheated greenhouses.
In order to get the highest possible yield from tomato bushes of this variety in the beds in the garden, it is better to plant a tomato in warm southern regions.
In the Volga region, Moscow region, the middle lane, it is recommended to grow a tomato under a film cover. In colder areas, early love tomatoes are grown only in greenhouses.
general information
The description of the variety should begin with a story about the bushes. Bushes of determinant type, non-standard. In height, they can reach 1.7 - 1.9 m, and in the south, the height of tomato stems Early love can be 2 meters. This variety is referred to as early maturing - it takes about 3 months from the appearance of the first shoots to the beginning of harvest.
The shoots are well leafy, the leaves are of the usual shape for tomatoes, dark green in color and medium size. The ovaries are collected in racemose inflorescences, up to 4 - 5 tomatoes ripen in each cluster.
Ripe fruits are crimson-red, medium-sized, weighing up to 90 g. Each tomato has no more than 4 chambers with seeds, the shape of the fruit is round, with light ribbing. The skin is of medium density, practically does not crack.
The presentation and taste are excellent. The yield is small - usually no more than two kilograms of ripe tomatoes are harvested from each bush.
The characteristic of the variety will be incomplete without mentioning the high immunity of tomato to diseases. The bushes practically do not affect the most common diseases and harmful insects, the tomato has high immunity to late blight. Ripe fruits can be stored for a long time in a cool place, withstand long-term transportation.
They use whole tomatoes in conservation: they are pickled and salted in barrels, and it turns out very tasty tomato juice. Tomatoes are eaten fresh and added to vegetable salads.
What are the pros and cons
The positive qualities of the variety include:
- rapid maturation;
- high resistance to major diseases;
- the ability to cover the whole fruit;
- excellent marketable qualities and excellent taste of ripe fruits;
- ease of care for growing tomato bushes.
Of the minuses, it should be noted low yields, weak shoots, and exactingness to a certain type of dressing during the growth period.
The nuances of growing
Vegetable growers are often interested in the question: what other features does this variety have? It turns out that the bushes perfectly tolerate short-term temperature drops, and can survive short periods of drought.
