Tomato Caspar: variety description, reviews (photo)

13.02.2018 Tomatoes Varieties

Tomato Caspar is from Holland. In our country, it appeared relatively recently, but has already managed to gain popularity due to its properties. Tomato Caspar is good for preservation, it makes tasty tomatoes in their own juice. And this is not the only plus of this variety, which made it one of the most beloved vegetables for growing.

Content

1 Grade description
2 How to grow seedlings
3 Planted in the ground
4 Picking a crop

Grade description

The variety is resistant to weather, unpretentious, ripens early. Tomato bushes are usually low, ranging from 60 to 100 cm. But on each of them many fruits are formed so that the bush bends under an unbearable burden to the ground and has to be tied up. Tomatoes ripen with oblong, somewhat reminiscent of bell peppers, with a spout. The fruits grow red, hard, dense. One such fruit will weigh about a hundred grams. The taste is sour, the smell is pleasant and fresh.

Unripe fruits are light green in color; in ripe, the color varies from orange to bright red.

Variety Caspar easily emerges, not afraid of frost and disease. Productivity is about 10 kg per square kilometer of bed, which indicates its good fertility. Of course, this result depends on how you care for the bushes. But even if you collect 7 kg from one square meter, this is quite a lot. Translated to one bush, this amount will be 1.5 kg.

Crops begin to be harvested from mid-July to the end of August. If you grow Caspar in the southern regions, then it will ripen in June. Tomatoes of this variety are fleshy, elastic, you can not be afraid for their transportation, they will not crack or wrinkle. The bushes do not take lesions late blight, or fusarium

The main purpose of the variety is conservation due to their slightly tart taste and thick skin. But some people like eating fresh tomato, without skin. Caspar tomatoes are pickled, made from them, lettuce, mixed vegetables, boiled ketchup, salted, added to snacks. But best of all, from this kind of tomato, tomatoes are obtained in their own juice, especially since its skin is easily removed even without boiling water.

How to grow seedlings

To grow a variety of "Caspar" can anyone, even a beginner gardener. These tomatoes are looked after, like any others: watered, fertilized, removed grass and weeds, plowed land. They grow well both in the greenhouse and in the open ground. The variety is suitable for the southern and central regions of Russia, Siberia, the Far East.

First, you should soak the seeds, disinfect them with a 1% potassium permanganate solution for 20 minutes, then mix the charcoal ash with water and transfer them to this solution, leave for 5-6 hours.

Then the seeds can be planted in prepared boxes, to a depth of 2 cm. Tomatoes are planted with seeds after March 20 and until the beginning of April.

When the week passes and the seeds hatch, the first leaves appear, it is necessary to dive and transplant them in pots. It is important not to forget to fertilize superphosphate. You can add it a couple of times for the entire time of seedling growth. Temper the formed bushes by taking the boxes out to the street, for a while, once or twice a day.

Planted in the ground

Tomato seedlings are planted in open ground or an insulated greenhouse in mid-May, after frosts. Well, if before that root vegetables grew in the soil, Caspar tomato loves this. Fertilize the soil before planting. Plant 4 sprouts per 1 square. mThe soil must be breathable.

Tomatoes of this variety love water, so you need to water them at least twice a week. Spray should not fall on the stem and leaves, only under the roots. Water the bushes late in the evening with warm, previously defended water. This variety likes to shoot, you need to follow them and cut them in time. The stems are so spreading that they can creep on the ground. Stepsons are like shoots above leaves. Tomatoes are grown in two stems.

This hybrid needs to be fed during growth in the garden. The first time you fertilize during the ovary, then, after two weeks again. Choose fertilizers high in potassium and phosphorus.

This tomato variety has many leaves, so it protects its fruits from sunburn from the south. If you have the north side of the garden, then the tomato needs additional lighting to ripen. Another plus of growing in the southern region is that there Caspar can not be cut, as it will give a lot of fruit regardless of this. And in the northern region will have to form a bush.

Picking a crop

Fruits are sung in 80-90 days with growth in a greenhouse and about 110 days in open soil. Tomatoes bear fruit until the fall. In the northern regions of the country, the first crop is harvested in July.

By the ripening dates, it can be argued that you will try the first tomatoes 3 months after the first sprouts appear, and in the greenhouse even earlier than this date.

The reviews of those who planted this tomato variety are the most laudatory. The hybrid is good, gives a large crop, has a peculiar taste. If you need a tomato for preservation, then choose it.