Tomato Black Prince - the monarch in your garden

Tomato The black prince stands out among other tomato varieties with a dark red coloring of fruits and their unique taste. This taste is called dessert: it is good for eating fresh, for salads and just like, as a treat.

The length of the bush in this tomato reaches 2.5 meters. In order to comfortably take care of the garden and harvest, it is better to pinch the bush at a height with which you can easily work. Of course, each stem requires garters, as well as branches with large (up to 400gr) fruits.

To plant on your site such a miracle - tomato Black Prince, first of all, you need to buy seeds. The variety is not the most common, but it is found in online stores. In addition, you can ask for planting materials from horticulturists who often store their seeds from the best plants of their favorite variety. In order for the bush to turn out strong and bring the maximum yield, the seedlings must be strong and hardened. A healthy plant has good immunity, which helps to avoid epidemics of fungal diseases in the garden. For example, phytophthora, which affects both the green part and the fruits themselves, seldom settles on strong plants, preferring those weakened by improper conditions, poor care.

There is an opinion that it is possible to grow a real tomato black prince only in monoculture, in order not to allow the variety to be sprayed and to "dilute" the varietal characteristics. Although not all varieties of tomato are capable of perepylyneniyu, you can completely exclude such a chance, planting the most valuable species no closer than 1.5 meters from other representatives of the tomato genus. Through such a precipice, pollen can not jump over.

How to grow a black prince tomato ? As well as any other. Since the variety is not the earliest, referring to the mid-ripening, it rises quite a long time and is less amicable than, for example, the Rocket or the Rookie. But the bushes develop powerful and to land in the ground catching up with their early comrades. Whether to fertilize the seedlings, everyone decides for himself. Chemistry is chemistry, for those who do not accept it at their sites, fertilizers from natural materials, extract from peat, biohumus will do.

When the first real leaf is grown, the little princes are dived into the box, digging down the very leaves. The part that turns out to be under the ground will give new roots, the nutrition of the plant will improve, and the extended stem will no longer interfere with growth and spoil the appearance of the bush.

Plant in early summer, you can bush with a well-formed crown, strong and hardened for a half to two weeks on the street. The well is filled with a mixture of earth, humus and sand, adding a little wood ash at a rate of 1 glass per square meter or 8 holes.

After transplanting plants pritenyayut and watered in the early days daily, and if it's hot, then twice a day. When tomatoes go into growth, it means that they have started, and in the future watering is done if necessary.

Some fear that the Black Prince tomatoes are genetically modified and are dangerous to their health. This "monarch" - a long-derived grade, even before those times when it was in the order of things such a drastic change in nature by man for himself and his needs. Therefore, he fearlessly grow any gardener and treat fruits to his family and friends.

Dark coloring of the fruits is not unique to the Black Prince. Tomato variety The Black Moor is similar to him, also has a memorable taste, but is not even a relative, but only a namesake prince. So be careful not to confuse. Among the new varieties are many plants with dark and even black fruits, some of them are a miracle of genetic engineering (for example, tomatoes with a blueberry gene bred in China), but to buy or not such products and seeds is the matter of choosing each person.