Description of the tomato variety Red sugar and its characteristics
Gardeners grow atypical tomatoes in the beds. Tomato Red sugar has a grainy texture. It resembles a sour watermelon in appearance and taste. You cannot buy such a product in a store: only grow it yourself. Own plots allow you to feast on interesting tomatoes.
Why Sugar should be planted
Breeders have created a tomato variety that is high in poly and mono sugars. They weaken the taste of acids. Consumption of fresh fruit does not irritate the oral mucosa. Carotene cleans blood vessels, strengthens hair and nails. Lycopene, a natural antioxidant, destroys neoplasms. Bottom line: pleasant taste is combined with benefits, immunity increases.
Product technical data
Agronomists have developed a tomato for greenhouses and temporary shelters. Description of the variety:
- indeterminant, extends up to 1.5 m;
- average ripening period (from loops to fruit tasting <115 days);
- average foliage;
- plates are large, juicy green;
- extended fruiting;
- brushes on the stem up to 4, each with up to 5 fruits;
- Proper care ensures that up to 7 kg / m² of sweet berries are obtained.
Uncooperative return of fruits is convenient for gardeners who visit plots once or twice a week. They pick ripe tomatoes. The bush gives strength to the pouring tomatoes.
What berries
Gardeners are interested in the taste and characteristics of the variety. Characteristics of tomatoes:
- average fruit size (<100 g);
- juicy pulp with pronounced granularity;
- unusual sweet taste;
- spherical shape of the fetus;
- thin peel;
- few seeds;
- bright "tomato" smell.
Sugar Tomatoes were created for fresh use. But enterprising gardeners have expanded their purpose. They make pasta, juices from ripe fruits, roll up allsorts. Natural sweet taste enhances canned food.
How to achieve results without losses
The taste of tomatoes depends on the growing conditions. Illumination, temperature, soil and air humidity change it. To make the berries sweeter, the recommendations of agrobiologists should be followed:
- deal with seedlings in the first decade of March;
- after pecking the loops, put the tray on a light, cool windowsill;
- increase daylight hours to 16 hours;
- two true leaves - a signal to dive down to the cotyledons;
- seedlings need hardening, airing;
- avoid waterlogging of the soil;
- applying fertilizer complexes for seedlings will strengthen the plants;
- should be placed in unheated greenhouses after spring frosts;
- it is required to shade the sugar tomato from the sun on the first day;
- prevent overheating of the air in the greenhouse: pollen is sterilized;
- provide drip irrigation;
- lighten plants weekly, pinch, tie up;
- ventilation will maintain optimal air humidity;
- treat with insecticides from pests.
Tomatoes should be shaped into 2 stems. This will allow you to get the largest fruits possible. Red sugar is included in the State Register of Vegetable Crops of the Russian Federation. The creators recommend planting tomatoes in private gardens and in personal subsidiary plots.
How gardeners appreciated the tomato
Hardworking gardeners gave great reviews about Red Sugar. They like unusual grainy flesh, sweet juice, thin skin. Fruits are original in salads, sliced.
The skin does not interfere with swallowing the pieces. Canned food becomes sweetish naturally. Prolonged fruiting pleases people: you can feast on tomatoes until autumn.
Afflicts low transportability, a tendency to defeat fungal diseases, sensitivity to waterlogging. We have to regularly deal with pests (garden snails). Sweetness and softness were to their taste.
