Ampelous tomatoes: varieties of tomatoes, growing with photos

In translation from French, the word ampel is a hanging flower vase, and in Russian - a cache-pot. Ampel tomatoes are grown both for beauty and for food. They can be grown both indoors and on the plot, but in a suspended state, which can significantly save space on the plot or in the greenhouse, help decorate an apartment, cottage, plot, greenhouse, and so on. This type of tomato belongs to the nightshade family.

Cherry subspecies

The fruit of these tomatoes is rather small, but tasty. A tomato reaches a weight of 10 - 70 grams, depending on the variety.

Ampelous tomatoes have an advantage over regular tomatoes in that they can be planted earlier and, as a result, harvested earlier. This type of tomato has practically no pests and is less sick because the plants do not come into contact with the ground. Scientists are constantly improving this subspecies of tomatoes, growing new varieties. These tomatoes are grown all year round on a warm balcony or windowsill.

Cascade F1 Red and Elo

Tomatoes of these varieties are almost the same, the differences in color. Red is red and ELO is yellow.

Both types of tomatoes have hanging shoots and a small bush. Varieties of these ampelous tomatoes were liked by those who like to grow vegetables on the windowsill because they practically do not need care. The most important thing is to pick off dried leaves and water on time.

These varieties of tomatoes give a small harvest; if you plan to grow a good harvest, then you need to plant vegetables in a larger container, up to 10 liters.

Tomatoes are eaten raw, you can make preparations for the winter, preserving them. Fruit ripening is 110 days.

Citizen

This type of tomato must be grown in a container of at least four liters. Tomatoes of these varieties are very tasty and he althy, they ripen for a hundred days.

Tomatoes have a pretty look, like the bush itself, which should be tied up, and then another bush can be planted nearby. It is necessary to pinch stepchildren of this variety - if this rule is followed, fruit ripening can be accelerated, i.e., the harvest time will decrease. The variety is good to eat raw and canned.

Red abundance

This variety bears fruit well, you just need to fertilize the plant and water it in time, the crop will ripen in fifty days. You can eat both canned and fresh.

Garden Jewel

This tomato is distinguished by especially small tomatoes. The fruits are well suited for whole canning: a tomato reaches only twenty grams of weight.

Talisman

This kind of indoor tomatoes can grow not only at home, but also on the street. This variety produces a harvest in July. Cold resistant. Ripens in a hundred days, and the weight of the fruit is 40 - 80 g.

Landing

For the competent cultivation of ampelous tomatoes of indoor varieties, the most ordinary care is enough.

Before sowing, the seeds are soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate for one hour, then washed in plain water. When soaking seeds or preparing soil in advance.

Ground recipe

You need to take turf, humus, peat. All components must be in the same proportions.

Potassium sulfate, phosphate fertilizer, ash are poured into the prepared soil.All parts are mixed so that the resulting soil is airy and soft, passes air and water. The prepared soil is placed in containers where the seeds will be sown. After everything is ready, the seeds are sown.

Sowing seeds

Operated in March. Seeds are buried in the ground centimeter 2 - 3 deep. Water carefully so as not to damage or disturb the seed. After seed germination, you need to wait until 2-3 leaves appear, and only then can the plant be planted in the main container, after pouring a mixture of small pebbles, expanded clay and brick fragments 2-3 centimeters into the bottom.

This drainage allows moisture to be properly redistributed in the pot and not create stagnant water, which adversely affects tomatoes and can even kill plants.

In May, seedlings are grown in containers that are hung or placed on the windowsill.With a cold snap, seedlings can be brought into the house, which means that freezing is prevented. Such containers protect seedlings from pests and diseases, because the soil has a constant oxygen enrichment.

Capacity selection

Capacity is chosen according to the weight of future tomatoes. If the tomato is small, then the pots should be taken no more than five liters. When the fruit is large, the capacity should be up to 10 liters so that the plants feel cozy and comfortable in pots.

Care

Ampelous varieties require the same care as ordinary tomatoes of traditional varieties. Tomatoes need to be fed with mineral fertilizers, watered and loosened. The only thing not to do is to be very zealous when feeding tomatoes, so as not to overfeed, as this moment will affect the crop in the future, and the tomatoes will not be as tasty. Need to be fed with phosphate fertilizers in small quantities .

Fertilize plants every two weeks. Fertilize while watering.

Summer care

If it is planned to grow ampelous tomatoes in one stem, then it is necessary to break off all stepsons, but if it is decided to make two stems, then you need to leave the stepson that grows under the flower - it is from him that the second stem will form.

If tomatoes grow in a room where there is no access to insects, then it is necessary to “pollinate” the tomatoes by shaking the flowers and thus transferring pollen from one flower to another flower.

If the tomato is grown for food, then you need to harvest the crop, not fully ripe, and if grown for beauty, then you can not pick the fruit to the last.