A rare, outstanding variety from America, grown since 1930, he managed to fall in love with gardeners from almost the whole world. At the 2016 Tomato Festival in the USA, Dixie Golden Giant entered the top 10 most delicious tomatoes.
It is worth noting that taste is one of the main advantages of the variety, but far from the only thing that it is still good, we now find out.
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Description and characteristics of tomato
The Dixie Golden Giant Tomato is a family heirloom of the Kentucky Amish genus. Variety indeterminate, mid-season, large-fruited and productive, it wins the love of gardeners with its unpretentiousness and enviable resistance to disease.
Characteristic
Bush up to 2 m in height, strong, ordinary leaves. The steak type tomatoes are uniform, flat-round, sometimes ribbed. The fruits are very large, white-yellow, sometimes yellow-orange with a pink barrel. The taste is pleasant, refreshing, sweet without acid, there is a pronounced tomato-fruit aroma. The tomato is fleshy, the seed chambers are small, there are few seeds, the skin is thin.
Productivity
Dixy golden giant is considered one of the most fruitful tomatoes, even in adverse years 1 bush gives at least 3.5 kg of fruit. The first inflorescence is laid over the 8th leaf, subsequent brushes grow every 3 leaves. On one brush, up to 9 tomatoes are tied. The average weight of a tomato is 300-450 g, individual fruits can weigh up to 800 g, and sometimes up to 2 kg. Fruits the variety until the first autumn frost.
Diseases and Pests
In all sources, where the giant golden Dixie tomato is described in more detail, it is indicated that the variety is not sick and is not affected by pests. You can finally verify this by reading the reviews of gardeners from different countries and regions. Even in the most difficult and unfavorable years, this yellow-fruited handsome man shows amazing resistance to various negative factors.
Often there are comments that even in varietal plantings, when tomatoes are ill next to Dixie, he still remains unharmed. By studying the information, you can compile a list of ailments for which Dixy's tomato has the greatest golden resistance:
- Fusarium wilt;
- various rot;
- bacteriosis;
- late blight;
- macrosporiosis or alternariosis;
- cladosporiosis;
- curl of leaves;
- blackleg;
- aphid;
- scoops;
- ticks;
- whitefly.
Using
Dixy golden giant, like other yellow tomatoes can be used for diet and baby food, it has a rich taste and alluring aroma, they are very good in fresh form. The variety is also used for cooking various dishes and winter preparations, it is suitable for freezing.
Advantages and disadvantages
The variety has practically no drawbacks, only one, absolutely insignificant minus can be noted - fully ripened tomatoes are not stored for long. Harvested immediately eaten or sent for processing. Now let's move on to the pros:
- extended fruiting period;
- high taste;
- large-fruited;
- productivity;
- excellent immunity to diseases and pests;
- the variety bears good fruit in partial shade;
- undemanding;
- resistance to differences in day and night temperatures;
- heat resistance;
- the fruits do not crack.
Following the reviews of gardeners, the variety really deserves attention. Having planted a Dixie tomato a golden giant time, it will be difficult to refuse to grow this tomato, it always becomes a favorite!
Growing a Dixie Golden Giant Tomato, Care
The advantages of indeterminate varieties are that they allow more rational use of the area of the greenhouse and continuously yield crops until the first significant cold weather. The Dixie Golden Giant, being just such a variety, is ideal for growing indoors. In warm regions with long summers, this tomato can be planted outdoors.
Seedling preparation
Sowing seeds is carried out 55 or 65 days before planting tomato seedlings in a permanent place, the first fruits ripen 100 or 110 days after sowing. The earth is taken light, fertile, soil taken from the beds needs to be decontaminated in any convenient way.
If the seedlings are grown in separate cups, then 2 grains are put in the ground, and if in a large container the seeds are laid out at a distance of 1, 5 or 2 cm. It is not necessary to deeply dig the seeds - 1 cm is enough. The soil with seedlings is moistened and covered with a transparent material to create a greenhouse effect.
When shoots appear, the shelter is removed and seedlings are placed on a light windowsill, if necessary, special lamps must be installed for additional lighting. Tomatoes dive at the stage of appearance of 2 real leaves, and plant when return frosts have passed, they can be taken out to the greenhouse 1 or 2 weeks earlier. For all the time it is advisable to feed the seedlings about 3 times.
Landing and care
The depth of the holes is adjusted to the size of the container in which the seedlings grew (the stem can be buried no more than 2 cm), a little organic or mineral fertilizers should be added to the hole. After planting, the beds are abundantly watered and mulched.
The distance between the bushes should be 40 or 50 cm, the row spacing is 60 cm. It is recommended to form a giant golden dixie in 2 stems; when growing in 3 branches, it may be difficult to garter due to the severity of the fruit. The garter support must be taken care of before landing. Pegs should be tall, stable and strong, tie up the bush as it grows.
Leaving consists in trimming excess foliage and stepsons, harvesting weeds, updating mulch, loosening, watering and fertilizing. The first top dressing is carried out when the tomatoes bloom and the fruits begin to set, then, during the season, you can fertilize the bushes 2 more times. Water the variety in the same way as all other tomatoes.
Golden giant Dixie - a noteworthy variety, it is highly resistant in all respects, gives an abundant harvest of very tasty and healthy fruits, undemanding to care for and easy to grow. Seeds are not easy to find, this is a rare variety, so it is better to collect them yourself.
Reviews
Catherine. How lucky I was, a neighbor shared my seeds with me, I fell in love with Dixie from the first year of growing. The crop is amazingly plentiful, the bushes are strewn with huge fruits. If you compare the Dixie golden giant with other yellow and orange tomatoes, it is the most delicious. We eat it in the summer and close it for the winter in salads and slices.
Vadim. For a long time I was looking for a tomato variety with a good immunity to diseases, I live in a place where growing tomatoes is always accompanied by various problems. And I found the perfect variety for my garden! Dixie is the best, he is very tasty, productive and most importantly, does not get sick at all. I collect seeds myself, even in varietal plantings, the variety does not degenerate.
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