Description and characteristics of the Kalinka-Malinka tomato variety
Anyone who loves tomatoes, but does not want to bother growing them, will certainly choose the Malinka tomato. After all, the superdeterminate variety has many advantages, even though it does not belong to the first generation F1 hybrids. The very name of the tomato - Kalinka-Malinka - suggests that growing a vegetable is a pleasure.
Benefits of the variety
The description of the Kalinka-Malinka tomato variety includes the characteristics of the fruit and the plant itself. The vegetable belongs to standard tomato varieties... This means that the bush reaches a height of about twenty-five centimeters. But, despite this, the popularity of the plant is great. Tomato bushes are compact, hardly branching. And the weakness of the root system allows them to grow closer to each other. Therefore, even in a small area or in a small greenhouse, many tomato bushes will fit.
The characteristic of the fruit consists of such parameters as:
- roundness of shape;
- density, smoothness of the skin;
- high dry matter level;
- a minimum of seeds in two or three nests;
- the weight of a tomato is fifty to ninety grams;
- excellent taste;
- excellent keeping quality tomato.
Red fruits ripen after 110-115 days from the moment of planting the seeds. And the yield of tomatoes is more than two and a half kilograms of tomatoes from one square meter.
How to grow a stem correctly
Miniature tomato bushes are good because they are suitable for growing not only in open ground, in a greenhouse, but you can also get crops in mini-gardens of a windowsill, a balcony. Varieties such as Kalinka-Malinka serve as an element of the site design when they are planted in tubs, pots.
They start growing a vegetable by planting tomatoes for seedlings. Depending on climatic conditions, sowing is carried out from March to April. Before planting tomato seeds in the ground, they are placed in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate or baking soda. The growth stimulator Epin will accelerate the germination of seeds. Planting material in a gauze bag is dipped into it for two to three hours.
The seeds are buried one or two centimeters into the ground, watered abundantly and then the boxes with seedlings are placed in a bright place where the air temperature reaches 25 degrees above zero. It remains to properly care for the seedlings of Kalinka-Malinka tomatoes:
- water sparingly with warm water;
- feed with mineral and organic fertilizers;
- loosen the soil in the container;
- dive the seedlings by transferring them into separate pots.
Tomato bushes, ready for transplanting into open ground. The Malinka cultivars should have a strong stem, with one inflorescence on the brushes.
Planting and leaving
The survival rate of low-growing plants is much better than their tall counterparts.A feature of planting a stem is that such tomatoes can be planted more often than conventional varieties. Five plants are placed on one square meter with a distance of twenty-five centimeters from each other. And between the rows, a gap of forty centimeters will be enough.
A feature of growing Kalinka-Malinka tomatoes is that they are not needed:
- tie up;
- feed strongly;
- pinch;
- water often.
Under such conditions, the bushes will be neat, miniature, compact. They are not able to break down from gusts of strong winds, heavy rain. To save the undersized tomato bushes from the heat drying up the soil, the planting must be mulched. Hay, straw, pine needles are used as material for mulch. The selected material is laid out in a layer of six to eight centimeters after watering so that the root neck remains free.
The temperature of the soil for mulching is also an important point. The soil must definitely warm up well before the procedure.
Low-growing tomatoes can suffer from bright sunlight, so they must be covered with a special protective material - spandball.... And plants under cover, it is better to refresh with warm water from a watering can.
Since the leaves of the vegetable plant are active in relation to photosynthesis, the productivity of the tomato grows many times over. Therefore, the Malinka variety is suitable for growing in the fields. No wonder the reviews of farmers about planting and caring for low-growing tomatoes are excellent. They say that they are ideal for mechanized cultivation. And due to its resistance to cold and disease, the standard type of tomato provides consistently high yields of tasty and juicy fruits.
What vegetable growers say about tomato
Summer residents have recently become aware of the Kalinka-Malinka variety, but many choose it for its simplicity in care, note the rapid ripening of red, juicy fruits. The pulp of a tomato has a lot of dry matter, but little water. Hence the use of the crop for pickling as a whole, pickling, drying.
Reviews of tomatoes contain information that undersized bushes hardly get sick, they are not afraid of late blight, fusarium, common fungal diseases. Gardeners also note that the plant is suitable for planting in open ground, in polycarbonate greenhouses. Novice vegetable growers and farmers are pleased that the care for Kalinka-Malinka tomatoes is minimal.
