How to grow cherry tomatoes: 5 differences in care

Many gardeners lately prefer small delicate cherry tomatoes. And they your choice are right! The taste of cherry more vivid, saturated. Sometimes with raspberry, blueberry or melon shade. They are sweeter. They contain more vitamins and antioxidants, which prevent the development of cancer and prolong youth.

To grow by virtue of their compact size not only in the garden, but at home: on the balcony or windowsill. And cherry is very good with children.



5 differences in care

1. Cherry can't pasynkovat. Generally surgery to remove side shoots from tomatoes is carried out with a single purpose: to harvest time to ripen. If you leave a large number of shoots, the plant will spend all the forces on their development and the fruits will not have time to gain the desired weight. This is important for large tomatoes. But cherry doesn't need much time to reach the maximum size. They have time to ripen on the Bush.

2. Cherry tomatoes can not tolerate dry soil. During drought, their fruits begin to crack. Therefore, they need to be watered daily! But gradually, because of excessive dampness, they also do not like to rot on the vine. If you can not drink them every day, just need one watering a week. But in this case, very rich! Under every Bush literally have to pour a bucket of water. And be sure to mulch the soil with humus, peat or straw, so that the moisture does not evaporate.

3. The distance between the bushes this type of varieties should be more than the usual tomatoes, because tomatoes love plenty of light. Plants don't need shading!



4. Cherry it is necessary to tie up. The usual tomatoes, some gardeners (this is often practiced in the southern regions of Russia) is grown in the distance. And there are small tomatoes that are perfectly "stand" without support. And cherry the vast majority of tall — meter and a half or two in height. So support for them is required.

5. Remove the tomatoes have fully ripened. Ripped brown or green, they will ripen, but the taste is not the same. Only in the sun they are able to gain sweets and aroma. By the way, to pluck cherry best not individually but in whole branches. So they are stored for longer.

*Cherry]. "cherry". So called tomatoes, fruit weight of which is in the range from 10 to 30 g. Moreover, they do not necessarily have to be round, small pear tomatoes and tomato-cream also belong to the group of cherry.published

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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