Tomato Black Prince - the monarch in your garden
Tomato Black Prince stands out among other varietiestomatoes dark red coloring of fruits and their unique taste. This taste is called dessert: it is good for eating fresh, for salads and just like, as a treat.
The length of the bush in this tomato reaches 2.5 meters. In order to comfortably take care of the beds and harvest, it is better to pinch the bush at the height with which you can easily work. Of course, each stem requires garters, as well as branches with large (up to 400gr) fruits.
To plant on your site such a miracle -Tomato Black Prince, first of all, you need to buy seeds. The variety is not the most common, but it is found in online stores. In addition, you can ask for planting materials from horticulturists who often store their seeds from the best plants of their favorite variety. In order to make the bush strong and bring the maximum yield, the seedlings must be strong and hardened. A healthy plant has good immunity, which helps to avoid epidemic epidemics of fungal diseases in the garden. For example, phytophthora, which affects both the green part and the fruits themselves, seldom settles on strong plants, preferring those weakened by improper conditions, poor care.
There is an opinion that growing a real tomatoThe black prince is only possible in monoculture, in order not to allow the variety to be dusted and to "dilute" the varietal characteristics. Although not all varieties of tomato are capable of pereopylenia, it is possible to exclude such a possibility altogether, planting the most valuable species no closer than 1.5 meters from other representatives of the tomato genus. Through such a precipice, pollen does not jump.
How to grow a black prince tomato? The same as any other. Since the variety is not the earliest, referring to the mid-ripening, it rises for a long time and less harmoniously than, for example, the Rocket or the Rookie. But the bushes develop powerful and to land in the ground catching up with their early comrades. Whether to fertilize the seedlings, everyone decides for himself. Chemistry is chemistry, for those who do not accept it at their sites, fertilizers from natural materials, extract from peat, biohumus will do.
When the first real leaf is grown smallprinces dive into a box, digging down the very leaves. The part that turns out to be under the ground will give new roots, the nutrition of the plant will improve, and the extended stem will no longer interfere with growth and spoil the appearance of the bush.
Plant in early summer can be bushes with a goodformed by the crown, strong and hardened for a half to two weeks on the street. The well is filled with a mixture of earth, humus and sand, adding a little wood ash at a rate of 1 glass per square meter or 8 holes.
After transplanting plants pritenyayut and watered inThe first days are daily, and if it's hot, then twice a day. When the tomatoes go into growth, it means that they started, and in the future watering is done if necessary.
Some fear that tomatoesBlack prince are genetically modified and eat them dangerous for health. This "monarch" - a long-derived grade, even before the times when it was in the order of things such a drastic change in nature by man for himself and his needs. Therefore, he fearlessly can grow any gardener and treat fruits to his family and friends.
Dark coloring of fruits is not only differentBlack Prince. Tomato variety The Black Moor is similar to him, also has a memorable taste, but is not even a relative, but only a namesake to the prince. So be careful not to confuse. Among the new varieties are many plants with dark and even black fruits, some of them are a miracle of genetic engineering (for example, tomatoes with a blueberry gene bred in China), but to buy or not such products and seeds is the matter of choosing each person.