Tomato variety "Potato Raspberry" - description with a photo of a delicious lush handsome on your favorite garden beds

In spring, summer residents and farmers have a lot of worries. It is necessary to choose seedlings for planting, but which variety will be the most delicious and the sweetest? Those who love medium-sized red sugary tomatoes will be interested in the Raspberry Potato variety.

It is ideal for experienced gardeners to grow a rich harvest will have to try, but its wonderful beautiful tasty fruits will be well-deserved reward for work. Read more about this variety in our material.

Raspberry Potato Tomato: variety description

This is a mid-season variety of tomatoes, after the seedlings have been planted in the ground before the final maturation it is necessary to wait 100-105 days. Indeterminate bush, standard. Bred for cultivation in greenhouses and in the open field. The plant is of medium height up to 100 cm, in the southern regions it can reach 120 cm. The leaves completely repeat the shape of the potato.

It has resistance to TMV, kladosporioz, alternariosis leaf spot.

Tomatoes of a varietal maturity of bright red or crimson color, rounded shape, flattened with weak ribbing. The fruits are large, heavy. The first fruits can reach a weight of 800 grams, later 600-700 grams.

The number of chambers 6-7, the solids content of 3-4%. The taste is bright, rich, sugary. The collected fruits can not be stored for a long time and do not tolerate transportation. They are best eaten or processed into juice or pasta.

You can compare the weight of the fruit of a variety with other varieties in the table below:

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Specifications

Tomato "Potato Raspberry" - is the result of the work of breeders from Russia, it was bred in 1999. Received state registration as a variety for greenhouses and open ground in 2000. Since that time, it has its admirers among summer residents. Farmers are not very actively growing this variety because of poor keeping quality of ripe fruits..

The best results are able to give in open ground in the south of the country. In the regions of central Russia is grown under film shelters. Ideally suited Astrakhan, Volgograd, Belgorod, Donetsk, Crimea and Kuban. In other southern regions also grows well. In more northern areas to grow such a variety is quite difficult, the plant loves the sun and the southern climate.

Tomatoes "Potato Raspberry" are very large and therefore not suitable for whole-fruit canned preserves, they can be used in barrel salting.

Many people appreciate their taste and sweet taste, they are excellent in fresh summer salads, first and second courses and will occupy a worthy place on the table. Juices, ketchups and pastes are very tasty due to their balanced composition and high sugar content.

With proper approach to the business with one bush can get up to 4-6 kg of fruit. When planting density 2-3 bush per square. m, and it is such a scheme is considered optimal goes up to 18 kg. This is an excellent indicator of yield, especially for such a low bush.

Advantages and disadvantages

The main positive qualities of this species are:

• fruits contain a lot of sugar;
• universality of use;
• disease resistance;
• high taste qualities;
• harmonious ripening;
• good fruit set.

Among the main disadvantages noted:

• capriciousness to the soil and the sun;
• requires careful maintenance;
• low quality and portability;
• weakness of branches.

Among the features of the tomato variety "Potato Raspberry" note the high sugar content in fruits, their very high taste qualities. Also, many gardeners note a high resistance to diseases and harmonious ripening of fruits.

A photo

Next, you can see the tomatoes "Potato Raspberry" in the photo below:

Features of growing

The bush must be tied up, it will help to avoid its damage by gusts of wind. The branches should be strengthened with supports, as they are rather lush and spreading.

Form in two or three stems, often in two. The plant loves the sun and watering with warm water in the evening. Poor tolerates cold. Loves growth stimulants and natural supplements 4-5 times per season.

Diseases and pests

ATTENTION! This variety is very good against fungal diseases. But in order to avoid diseases, one must try very hard. It is necessary to observe very carefully growing conditions, observing the mode of watering, humidity and heating, if the plant is in a greenhouse.

Brown fruit rot, a frequent disease of this species. All bad infected fruit must be plucked, as well as reduce the introduction of nitrogen fertilizers. Fix the result of the drug "Hom".

Of insect pests are often attacked by a gourd aphid, against it gardeners effectively use the drug "Bison". Also in open ground exposed garden scoop.

With this insidious insect fight by removing weeds on which it can actively develop. You should also apply the tool "Bison". Scoop scoop also causes significant damage. Against her use of the drug "Strela".

In the middle lane slugs can cause great damage to these bushes. They are struggling with removing excess tops and zoliruya soil, creating an unbearable environment for their habitat. Also a good measure of protection will be coarse sand, ground shells of nuts or eggs, they must be scattered around the plants to create the desired barrier.

Conclusion

As follows from a brief review, this variety is not suitable for beginners, here you need some experience in the cultivation of tomatoes. To get started, try a different grade, easier to care for. But if you are not afraid of difficulties, then braver to the battle and everything will turn out. Successes and a harvest on envy to all neighbors.

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