Tomato Favorite holiday: characteristics and description of the variety with a photo

Tomato Favorite holiday - a godsend for those who prefer the combination of an impressive fruit size and a pleasant sweet taste. High-yielding variety is characterized by unpretentiousness and strong immunity. Bred by Siberian breeders. The characteristic of this variety indicates the almost complete absence of flaws.

Variety description

Favorite holiday - a variety that has a good yield. The determinant bush differs in height: plants can grow up to 180 centimeters. Tomatoes of this species need tying up and stepsoning. The mass of leaves is formed in moderation, the color of the leaf is dark green, the size is medium.

Fruits of the Favorite Holiday variety do not ripen immediately, but gradually. The ovary of the latest specimens appears at the end of the season, in August. Fruiting at the highest level: 1 square meter can, with proper care of the crop, “give” up to 8 kilograms of selected fruits to the vegetable grower.

Tomato fruits Favorite holiday is very large. The tip is slightly pointed; a pronounced ribbing can be observed at the peduncle. The weight of the fetus can reach 1300 grams. The skin is thin, but dense enough, which allows the fruit not to crack during ripening, storage and transportation.

It should be noted that the top tomatoes are slightly smaller than those on the lower stems. The color of the fruit during ripening changes from light green to warm pink. The pulp contains few seeds, is juicy, fleshy and very sugary.

Due to the sweet, rich taste of the fruit, you can use the crop of your Favorite holiday for making salads, soups, purees and sauces. Due to their rather large size, these tomatoes are not suitable for canning as a whole, but any other options are possible: cooking tomato paste, tomatoes in their own juice, etc.

Positive and negative qualities

Tomatoes of the Favorite Holiday variety have a lot of advantages, including:

• excellent taste;
• reasonably high yield;
• ability to resist diseases;
• variety of applications;
• unpretentious care;
• fruiting throughout the season;
• excellent commercial qualities of tomatoes;
• large fruit weight.

Gardeners who leave feedback on the use of tomatoes Favorite Holiday, commenting on the cultivation of this variety, also note some shortcomings:

• increased exactingness of tomatoes Favorite holiday to the composition of the soil, which should be regularly enriched;
• the need to form a bush.

Of course, the described shortcomings can be considered minuses only conditionally. These are, rather, the nuances of caring for a variety.

Features of cultivation

A brief description of the variety and the growing process is on the package with seeds. To start growing a tomato Favorite holiday is necessary from sowing seeds for seedlings. They need to be planted after March 15.

It is advisable to use a growth stimulator for seed treatment - in this case, the germination of the material will be slightly higher. Disinfection is not necessary, since this procedure is mandatory at the time of pre-sale preparation of seeds.

Landing should be carried out in soil, which consists of sod (or garden) soil with the addition of clean washed river sand and wood ash. With a depth of 1.5 - 2 centimeters, the seeds should be planted in small containers, which are covered with foil and placed in a warm place. When the first shoots appear, the film should be removed and the container taken out to a bright place.

If the provision of such conditions is a problem, it is necessary to take care of additional illumination of seedlings.

After the appearance of the first two true leaves, the seedlings should be picked and fed with a nitrogen-based fertilizer. Plants can be transplanted into the greenhouse as early as mid-May, provided that the frosts have stopped. Up to 4 plants can be placed on 1 square meter. Watering tomatoes Favorite holiday should be moderate, but regular. Excess moisture can harm plants. It is great if the summer resident has the opportunity to install a drip irrigation system in the greenhouse, which will ensure moderate but constant soil moisture.

It is necessary to form a bush in 2 stems. During the season, fertilizers based on potassium and phosphorus should be applied several times under the root. To increase the size of the fruit, small and deformed inflorescences should be removed in a timely manner. Be sure to tie the bush to a support or trellis.

Diseases and pests

Tomatoes of the Favorite Holiday variety are resistant to the development of diseases, but they can suffer from late blight, like other mid-ripening and late varieties. To avoid this problem, it is necessary to treat plants with preparations containing copper.

You can cope with root rot through regular ventilation, careful watering and timely loosening of the soil. The same methods should be used to prevent the development of blossom end rot.

By spraying plants with insecticides, you can save them from harmful insects. Once fruiting begins, chemical preparations are strictly prohibited.

If the bush began to bear fruit, it is necessary to change the methods of eliminating pests. So, some folk remedies have proven themselves well:

• soap solution for spraying;
• onion peel tincture;
• decoction of celandine;
• mixture of wood ash and tobacco dust for dusting.

Tomatoes Favorite holiday - well-established representatives of the nightshade family. With proper care, the summer resident is guaranteed an excellent harvest and excellent quality of tomatoes. This is confirmed by the reviews of those who have already planted tomatoes Favorite holiday.

Reviews of gardeners

Irina Pachianidi, Kazakhstan:

“On March 12, I sowed the seeds of my favorite holiday, and on July 16, on my husband’s birthday, we already ate the first tomatoes. Although the summer was quite cold this year, the tomatoes had time to ripen.Last year it was warmer, the first fruits were received at the very beginning of July. This year has convinced me that it is necessary to plant a Favorite holiday. The size of the fruit of the tomato variety Favorite holiday inspires respect. It is convenient to process, because the foliage grows on bushes in moderation. Taste great, sweet.”

Anna Korzheva, Saratov:

“The very first thing that pleases me in tomatoes Favorite holiday is the size of the fruit. My biggest achievement among all planted species is 1150 grams, which is a lot. As for taste, here my opinion will remain neutral. Just sweet, juicy, without bright pronounced shades. I think the weather is to blame. The summer was cold, there was practically no sun. I'll repeat the experiment next year, and then we'll see.”

Sergey Ivanchenko, Moscow region:

"Favorite holiday - my favorite variety, growing these tomatoes for several years in a row. Planted in a greenhouse, got a great result.It is interesting that the variety began to yield one of the first, and ended up being the last - at the end of September, the last green tomatoes were removed. I took care of it, like the rest of the tomatoes.”

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