Tomato Aurora: characteristics and description of the variety, its yield with a photo

When choosing new varieties of tomatoes for planting in your garden, you should pay attention to Aurora - a hybrid tomato, which is a fairly new variety, but already quite popular among summer residents due to its merits and relative unpretentiousness to care.

Description and characteristics of the variety

Tomato Aurora f1 - early ripening tomatoes of the determinant type. The bushes are low, medium branched. The shoots are erect, moderately leafy, their height is not more than 0.7 m. The color of the stems is saturated green. Foliage - medium length, tapering towards the end, typically tomato, bright green.Low bushes do not require a garter, but shoots about 70 cm high are best tied to supports.

The characteristic of precocity is as follows: 3 months pass from the moment of planting the seed to the harvest. Seedlings grown at home grow well in the garden in beds and in protected ground. Aurora are tomatoes that are famous for good growth and fruiting in any conditions, and this is one of the main advantages of the hybrid.

When planting seedlings early in greenhouses, it is possible to harvest two crops from Aurora if, after harvesting the first crop, new shoots are formed from stepchildren.

Description of the variety will be incomplete if you do not talk about the fruits, as well as about the yield of this hybrid. Ripening fruits are rounded, slightly ribbed. Ripe tomatoes are bright scarlet in color, the weight of one tomato is 100-110 g.The peel is not too dense, not prone to cracking. The harvested crop tolerates transportation over fairly long distances.

This variety is versatile - ripe tomatoes are used fresh, canned as a whole, and also prepared in salads, ketchups, tomato juice, tomato puree.

The yield of the Aurora hybrid is high - about 4.5 kg per bush, and even more in greenhouse conditions.

Pros and cons of the variety

The reviews of those who planted this variety speak of a large number of positive qualities in these tomatoes. Among the main advantages it should be noted:

• high yield;
• early ripening of tomatoes, fruits ripen almost simultaneously;
• high resistance to diseases affecting nightshade plants, especially late blight;
• hybrid does not require special care;
• excellent marketability and good taste of ripe tomatoes;
• crop tolerates long distance transportation.

According to those vegetable growers who have grown the Aurora tomato for more than one season, there were no negative qualities when growing it.

Nuances of planting and care

Aurora seeds should be planted in late March - early April. In this case, the seedlings will have time to grow and get stronger in room conditions, receiving a sufficient amount of sunlight and heat. Care for seedlings planted in open ground consists in timely watering, loosening the soil around the bushes, removing weeds and several top dressings with complex mineral fertilizers during the season.

And if the Aurora is planted correctly, then further care of the hybrid is usually minimized.

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