Tomato "Cow ears": characteristics and description of the variety

What attracts people to tomatoes Cow's ears (reviews, photos, characteristics and description of the variety will be discussed in the article), appearance or taste? The opinion of customers is clear: the main thing is a beautiful view and good taste. Sometimes they just have to look at the photo of the variety or try the fruit. The gardener needs a description, moreover, a full one, with clarifications about caring for it variety of tomatoes, pluses with minuses.

Cow ears

Very popular among amateurs and professional gardeners, the variety. Perfect for open, free ground, and in greenhouses for growing. Pleases with a high harvest, and the fruits are beautiful, pleasing in taste.

Seeds for the next planting, you can safely choose for yourself among the harvested ripe tomatoes.

Characteristic

The cow’s ear is classified as mid-ripening and high-yielding varieties. The bushes are indeterminate, usually tall, they do not have a stopping point of growth, unless specially pinched at the apex. Not particularly branched, with secondary foliage. The leaves are beautiful, small, neat, usually dark green with simple, even cute inflorescences.

Fruits ripen with brushes, somewhere in 4-6 pieces. Proper care ensures a high, good yield, when from 1 square meter you can safely get up to 6 kg of ripe, selected, tasty ears - a tomato.

The ripening period is not in a hurry, it often stretches all season and the ears are harvested as they technically or physiologically ripen. The fruits are usually average, 100-140 gr, the shape is often elongated, the tip is pointed, resembles an ear. The surface is slightly ribbed in the places near the stalk, and the color is bright, saturated red.

The peel of tomatoes is dense, perfectly saves them from cracking. The pulp is juicy, tasty and fleshy, inside there are many seed chambers. The taste is sweet, reminiscent of Japanese Truffle Tomatono wateriness.

The origin of the variety is due to Russian breeders who have created excellent tomatoes for open or closed (greenhouses) soil. Ears are considered table tomatoes, they are more related to salad, they are extremely tasty fresh, they can be put on a side dish, salad or other dishes.

Medium-sized, with a flat, smooth surface, they are marinated and salted perfectly, and ripe fruits give tasty juice.

Pros and cons

Numerous reviews have helped to compile a complete list of advantages:

• Extremely tasty fruits;
• Stable, high productivity;
• Fruits are well stored;
• Cold resistant;
• Unpretentious, if you look at the care (which is rare for a tomato);
• Resistant to many vegetable diseases.

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Disadvantages:

It is necessary to form a bush - however, such a drawback can be attributed to 80% of tomato varieties for sure. They need to be tied up, form bushes, track growth. Bushes turn out high, they need support. However, even medium or low bushes are tied. Especially if tomatoes grow in windy regions.

Care Features

It's easier to grow Ears through seedlings. First, treat the seeds thoroughly with a solution of potassium permanganate, then rinse and leave to dry. Then they spend 10-12 hours in a special growth stimulator.

Such precautions enhance protection against various diseases, plus increase germination. The soil must be made up of ordinary garden soil, mixing it with peat, add a little humus there. Great nutrition is provided by top-dressing with superphosphate (wood ash can be used).

Sow the seeds in neat, small pits, sprinkle them with soil, then immediately spray with water. For seeds to grow, you need a temperature of about 25 degrees.As the seedlings appear, it can be reduced, and all containers placed near a source of natural light.

Finished tomato seedlings contains 6 leaves and at least 1 formed brush (flower). Next is the landing of all seedlings directly into the ground. The first days it needs to be covered with a film. Accommodation - 3 bushes per square meter.

Diseases

The cow’s ear is really stubbornly resistant to many diseases, but he needs prevention. Before planting, it is better to shed the soil selected for the tomato with a hot, weak solution of ordinary potassium permanganate. And when there is an epidemic of late blight, treat the plants with preparations with copper.

Often loosen the soil, remove all weeds, this will protect against the possible appearance of rot (vertex, root).

Do not forget to regularly spray with phytosporin (or any other special antifungal drug).

Regularly inspect all bushes, collect emerging pests - caterpillars, various bugs. Aphids, a bear or thrips, a spider mite are also dangerous. The treatment of the bushes with an ordinary soapy solution will help, and already affected plants should be treated after collecting pests with insecticides for the next 3-4 days.