Tomato Leningrad giant: characteristics and description of the variety, yield

If you want to eat large sugar tomatoes as early as possible, it is better to choose the Leningrad giant tomato. Of course, it is better to grow it under film coatings, then already 85 days after the germination of the seeds, it will be possible to feast on fragrant tomatoes.

Characteristic of a non-standard plant

Very rarely large varieties please undersized varieties. But the Leningrad giant is an exception. A vegetable bush does not grow above ninety centimeters. Its stems are slightly leafy. Carved tomato leaves are dark green, large.The first flower brush of the plant is laid over the eighth-ninth leaf, the next - with an interval of one or two leaves.

The description of the Leningrad giant varietal fruit includes:

flat round shape;
weak ribbing;
immature tomatoes have a green color with a dark spot in the stem area;
when the tomatoes are fully ripe, the color of the fruit is pink;
dense, smooth skin;
weight up to three hundred grams;
rich dessert taste in fleshy, juicy pulp.

The value of the tomato is in its high yield, excellent taste and resistance to fruit cracking.

Agriculture of vegetables in greenhouses

Eight to ten days before, they fill the recesses of the greenhouse with hot manure. If in the middle, along the walls, the biomaterial is compacted, then in other places it is laid loosely. The settled manure is leveled after four days. After that, the earth is poured with a layer of fifteen to seventeen centimeters. You can plant tomato seeds for seedlings in such a greenhouse when the soil temperature reaches 25 degrees above zero.

To place the seedlings of the Leningrad giant tomato under a shelter from pots, diving it, outline the lines of future rows. The scheme of planting tomatoes is 70x40 centimeters. Before transplanting tomato seedlings, a third of the roots are removed from them. This procedure contributes to the enhanced development of the root system of the tomato variety. Although some gardeners find it redundant.

Replanted tomato seedlings are carefully cared for:

First, water under the root once every five days, then, in May, daily. Water does not spare, a bucket per square meter of tomato plantings.
A week later, young tomato bushes are fed with a solution of mullein in a ratio of 1:8. A good effect will be from feeding tomatoes with ammonium nitrate, taken in an amount of fifty grams per bucket of water.
If the tomato stems begin to turn purple, it indicates a lack of phosphorus. A solution of wood ash is introduced into the soil, diluting 75 grams of raw materials in ten liters of water.
On sunny days, the film covering from tomato seedlings can be removed for ventilation.
Seedlings are hardened two weeks before planting in open ground. First, the greenhouse is opened for two to three hours, then increasing the time to seven to eight hours. It is advisable to reduce the watering of young bushes at the end of cultivation, and moisten them abundantly before planting in garden beds.

Giant outdoor tomato care is common as for other types of vegetable plant.

Disease control, prevention measures

Leningrad Giant tomatoes often show symptoms of a variety of diseases that every gardener should be aware of.

You can protect a plant from bacterial cancer by treating the seeds with sublimate and disinfecting the soil in greenhouses.

There are signs of damage to tomatoes by browning of blood vessels on the cut of the stem, on still green tomatoes - small round spots with a crack in the middle. The disease progresses rapidly, resulting in the loss of large tomato crops.

Many diseases of varietal tomatoes are associated with leaf damage:

If the leaf plate of a vegetable plant is twisted into a tube, becomes rough, then the tomatoes lack phosphorus in the soil, moisture in the air. Leaf curl is genetically transmitted, so it is impossible to take seeds from a diseased crop for subsequent cultivation of tomatoes.
A lot of silver-white spots on the surface of the leaves of a tomato indicates the development of an infectious disease. It is necessary, when the first signs appear, to spray the bushes with a solution of Bordeaux mixture. Repeat this procedure twice more in ten days.
Stripes of red-brown color appearing on the leaves and stems of tomatoes signal a streak infection. The plant looks sick and stunted. And his leaves curl, dry up. The cause of the disease of tomatoes lies in the affected seeds. Before sowing, they should be strictly selected by pickling the seed material in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for twenty minutes.
The mosaic pattern on the leaves of a tomato is associated with infection by pathogenic microorganisms through plant sap. You need to deal with a mosaic of tomatoes in the same way as with a streak.

Prevent the pathology of tomatoes by prophylactic treatment of bushes with Bordeaux liquid three times with a break of ten days.

Blanks of large tomatoes for the winter

The large fruits of the Leningrad giant are suitable for such winter canning recipes as tomatoes in gelatin. To prepare a delicious product, take only large tomatoes, cutting them into four parts. Together with chopped onions, they are placed in glass jars. Boil the marinade, taking one hundred grams of s alt for four liters of water, five hundred grams of sugar, add peppercorns. The swollen gelatin is poured into the brine and boiled for five minutes. Chopped tomatoes are poured with this marinade and jars are rolled up.

Delicious chopped tomatoes in vegetable oil. Spices, chopped tomato fruits, onion rings are placed in jars. All are poured with the usually prepared marinade. After pasteurization, vegetable oil is added, with a layer of up to two centimeters.

It remains to roll up the canned product, then let it cool and place in a cool place. It has a long shelf life and the tomatoes taste like fresh.

Reviews about the Leningrad giant tomato are only positive. Vegetable growers value excellent taste, sugar content, versatility in use in tomatoes. After all, ketchup, sauces, pastes and tomato juice can be prepared from giant fruits. And all this is only of excellent quality. And dessert dishes, where the Leningrad giant meets, have the highest characteristics. The taste of fleshy tomatoes goes well with herbs and cheese in salads. It makes an amazing gravy for boiled meat, as well as rice and vegetables.