Overview of ampel tomato varieties and the subtleties of their cultivation
Translated from French, the word ampel is a hanging flower vase, and in Russian - a pots. Ampel tomatoes are grown for both beauty and food. They can be grown both indoors and on the site, but in a suspended state, which can significantly save space on the site or in a greenhouse, will help decorate an apartment, cottage, plot, greenhouse, and so on.
This type of tomato belongs to the nightshade family.
Cherry subspecies
These tomatoes have a rather small fruit, but tasty. The tomato reaches a weight of 10 - 70 grams, depending on the variety.
Ampel tomatoes have an advantage over ordinary tomatoes in that they can be planted earlier and, as a result, harvested earlier. This type of tomato has practically no pests and is less sick, because the plants do not come into contact with the ground. Scientists are constantly improving this subspecies of tomatoes by growing new varieties. These tomatoes are grown all year round on a warm balcony or windowsill.
F1 Red and Elo cascade
Tomatoes of these varieties are almost the same, differences in color. Red is red and ELO is yellow.
Both types of tomatoes have hanging shoots and a small bush. The varieties of these ampelous tomatoes were liked by those who love to grow vegetables on the windowsill, so they practically do not need care. The most important thing is to pick off dried leaves and water on time.
These varieties of tomatoes give a small yield; if you plan to grow a good harvest, then you need to plant vegetables in a larger container, up to 10 liters.
Tomatoes are eaten raw, you can make preparations for the winter by canning them. Fruit ripening is 110 days.
Citizen
This type of tomato must be grown in a container of at least four liters. Tomatoes of these varieties are very tasty and healthy, ripen for a hundred days.
Tomatoes look pretty, like the bush itself, which should be tied up, and then another bush can be planted nearby. In this variety, it is necessary to pinch the stepsons - if this rule is observed, the ripening of the fruits can be accelerated, that is, the harvest time will be reduced. The variety is good to eat raw and canned.
Red abundance
This variety bears fruit well, you just need to fertilize the plant and water it on time, the crop will ripen in fifty days. You can eat both canned and fresh.
Garden pearl
This tomato is particularly distinguished by its small tomatoes. The fruits are well suited for canning as a whole: a tomato reaches only twenty grams in weight.
Mascot
This type of indoor tomato can grow not only at home, but also outdoors. This variety bears a harvest in July. Cold resistant. Ripens in a hundred days, and the weight of the fruit is 40 - 80 g.
Landing
For the competent cultivation of ampelous tomatoes of indoor varieties, the most ordinary care is enough.
Before sowing, the seeds are soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate for one hour, then washed in ordinary water. When soaking seeds or preparing the soil in advance.
Soil recipe
You need to take turf, humus, peat. All components must be in the same proportions.
Potassium sulfate, phosphate dressing, ash are poured into the finished soil. All parts are mixed so that the resulting soil is airy and soft, and allows air and water to pass through. The prepared soil is placed in containers where the seeds will be sown. After everything is ready, the seeds are sown.
Sowing seeds
Performed in March. Seeds are buried in the ground 2 to 3 centimeters deep. Water it carefully so as not to damage or disturb the seed. After germination of seeds, you need to wait until 2–3 leaves appear, and only then can the plant be planted in the main container, after having poured a mixture of small pebbles, expanded clay and fragments of brick by 2-3 centimeters on the bottom.
This drainage allows moisture to be properly redistributed in the pot and does not create stagnant water, which has a detrimental effect on tomatoes and can even destroy the plants.
In May, seedlings are grown in containers that are hung or placed on a windowsill. When it gets cold, the seedlings can be brought into the house, which means that freezing can be prevented. Such containers protect seedlings from pests and diseases, because the soil is constantly enriched with oxygen.
Choice of capacity
The capacity is chosen according to the weight of future tomatoes. If the tomato is small, then the pots should be taken no more than five liters. When the fruit is large, the container should be up to 10 liters so that the plants feel cozy and comfortable in pots.
Care
Ampel varieties require the same care as conventional tomatoes of traditional types. Tomatoes need to be fed with mineral fertilizers, watered and loosened. The only thing that cannot be done is to be very zealous with feeding tomatoes, so as not to overfeed, as this moment will affect the harvest in the future, and the tomatoes will not be so tasty. It is necessary to feed with phosphorus fertilizers in small quantities.
Fertilize plants every two weeks. You need to fertilize while watering.
Summer care
If you plan to grow ampelous tomatoes in one stem, then it is necessary to break off all the stepsons, but if it is decided to make two stems, then you need to leave the stepson that grows under the flower - it is from him that the second stem will form.
If tomatoes grow in a room where insects have no access, then it is necessary to "pollinate" the tomatoes by shaking the flowers and thus transferring pollen from one flower to another flower.
If the tomato is grown for human consumption, then it is necessary to harvest the crop that is not fully ripe, and if it is grown for beauty, then it is possible not to pluck the fruits until the last.
