The variety of these tomatoes is considered popular with most gardeners. Even a novice summer resident can grow them. The variety owes its appearance to Russian breeding specialists, who first discovered it in the twenty-first century. According to the characteristics and description, Fatima refers to early ripening tomatoes.
Description and characteristics of the Fatima tomato variety
Large-fruited tomato belongs to the early varieties, is well cultivated in unprotected soil. Sprawling bushes, reach a height 60 centimeters, but they are not counted among the standard ones.
Fatima is a hybrid plant, it has an analogue of the same name F1, which differs in that it is classified as a medium-early tomato and is bred in greenhouse conditions.
Tomatoes are not susceptible to late blight disease, and they resist other diseases. The crop yield is excellent. Fruits are large in size, pink in color, differ in a heart-shaped shape, the weight of each reaches 300-400 grams... The consistency of tomatoes is fleshy, the taste is sweetish.
Tomatoes of this variety hardly crack.
There are not too many chambers in a tomato; dry matter is contained in an average amount. Ripe fruits are stored for a long time. They are used for salads, sauces, tomato juices and canning.
Advantages and disadvantages
The most important benefits of this tomato are:
- size of ripe fruits;
- excellent taste and trade characteristics;
- versatility in application;
- good resistance to disease;
- excellent yield.
Disadvantages for gardeners not marked, which allows him to occupy leading places in the beds for many years. From planting seeds to ripening fruits, it is required up to three months.
The plant is considered to be thermophilic and requires a sufficient amount of sunlight.
Sowing rules
Fatima tomatoes grow well in any region of Russia... Seeds should be sown in March. Before sowing, the seeds should be pre-treated in a 1% manganese solution. If the seed is stored for more than one year, it is recommended to soak it in heated water for several hours before processing.
This tomato variety does not need pinching, but the bushes need to be tied to supports.
Purchased planting material should not be processed, as this can only harm their germination.
For planting, a soil composition should be prepared, for which it is used land from the garden... It contains many pathogenic bacteria and other harmful parasites. To get rid of them, the soil must be disinfected by steaming. The soil is loaded into a colander, kept for ten minutes over boiling water.
The prepared soil is poured into planting containers, five-centimeter furrows are arranged in them. Several seeds are laid in the hole, the distance between them is about two centimeters... After completing the sowing, the furrows are covered with earth, spilled with water.
Transplanting tomatoes into open ground
This event is allowed to start in early May... If it is planned to grow tomatoes in greenhouse conditions, then the seedlings are transferred in mid-spring.
A couple of days before transplanting, the seedlings must be treated with special stimulating compounds. These include Immunocytophyte, Epin. The use of such funds will significantly accelerate the development of young bushes.
Almost all tomatoes are planted in the soil, which contains a huge amount of nutrients. For this reason, before transplanting seedlings, the beds are treated with mineral compounds. In most cases, are used compost, phosphorus or potash humus.
The soil in the beds is loosened in advance by fifteen centimeters in depth in order to get rid of the formed crust.
Seedlings are transplanted into small holes, the depth of which is no more than 15 centimeters... Landing is carried out according to the "forty-fifty" scheme. Seedlings are buried at right angles. If the bush is tall, then a support peg should be immediately installed near it for subsequent garter.
Post-transplant care
Like all other plants, Fatima tomato bushes need grooming. Bushes will not thrive in too dry soil, so watering will have to be done regularly.
If cloudy days prevail, then this event should be organized once a week... For hotter and sunnier days, the watering interval is reduced to two to three days.
Several times during the growing season, tomato plants need feed... The first time such an event is held ten days after transplanting seedlings into unprotected beds. For this, special formulations are used, made on the basis of mullein, nitrate and superphosphate.
Among other things, the land between the bushes is necessary periodically loosento provide oxygen access to the root system. Weeds are removed at the same time.
Diseases and their prevention
It was already noted above that late blight is not terrible for this tomato variety, and tomato perfectly resists other diseases. But if suddenly trouble happened, it is recommended that the bushes be treated with a special fungicidal composition. Any insecticidal preparation will create protection from harmful parasites.
Harvesting and storage rules
If the right care is organized and the weather is favorable for the growth of tomatoes, then the yield can reach 10 kg from each square meter of planting.
You can start cleaning late July - early August... Tomatoes are removed from the bushes as they ripen.
Considering the fact that the fruits practically do not crack, they can be kept fresh for a long time.
Subject to all the recommendations, Fatima tomatoes will delight you with a rich harvest of fruits of excellent taste. They can be used not only for personal consumption, but also for implementation. Plants are unpretentious, a novice gardener may well be engaged in their cultivation.