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Eggplants attract gardeners with their delicious taste and the ability to diversify the winter table with home-made canned delights. Plants with a long growing season manage to ripen in a short summer even in the northern regions with the use of coverings under film or in stationary greenhouses. Eggplant Ilya Muromets is one of the popular varieties of the Gavrish seed company.
Description of the heroic variety
Mid-season eggplant variety Ilya Muromets for growing in open ground and under film reaches technical ripeness in 110–115 days after full germination.
In the southern regions, eggplants of the Ilya Muromets variety are cultivated in open ground, in the central and northern regions - under film cover and in greenhouses. Film tunnels are preferable: heat-loving eggplants overheat in the greenhouse on hot days and can lose their ovary and color.
The variety lives up to the name Ilya Muromets: the bush reaches a height of 1 m, branched, dense, powerful. The deep dark purple fruits are striking in size - irregular spindle-shaped cylinders with a diameter of 10 cm and up to 40 cm in length, weighing more than half a kilogram. The yield of the variety exceeds 10 kg/m2. Favorable reviews contribute to the spread of the Ilya Muromets eggplant variety.
Agricultural technology for cultivating the variety
In two and a half months of active growth of eggplant seedlings of the high-yielding variety Ilya Muromets, the plant acquires 5–7 true leaves and a branched root system. Picking, if necessary, is carried out until the plant has lost its cotyledon leaves. If it is possible to do without transplants that are traumatic for the roots, immediately plant the germinated eggplant seeds in large pots.
A medium-sized eggplant of the Ilya Muromets variety is planted in fertilized soil. The holes are filled in advance with compost or humus and filled to the brim with water. After repeated moisture-recharging watering, we plant the seedlings with a lump of earth in the slurry, deepen the root collar by 1–2 cm. The roots are not injured during such planting, the survival rate of plants is 100%.
We mulch the top of the hole with a 2 cm layer of dry humus. The moisture does not evaporate and a crust does not form on the soil surface. After 2 days, we rake the mulch and carry out loosening - gardeners call this operation dry watering. After loosening, the mulch returns to its original place. The air has access to the roots of the plant; the capillaries through which moisture evaporates are broken. The roots do not dry out. In hot weather, eggplant seedlings are shaded, but given plenty of sunlight in the morning and evening.
After planting, the shoots and lower leaves up to the first fork are removed. So, a bush is formed so that every plant and leaf gets enough sun.With the appearance of the ovaries, another removal operation is necessary. 5–7 large fruit ovaries are left on the bush. Others are removed, including flowers. This is a necessary measure: the eggplant of the Ilya Muromets variety is a large-fruited plant, if you do not lighten the bush, the ripening of the fruits will extend until cold weather. The fruits are crushed.
Varietal characteristics and features
Description of the variety
Seed producer | Gavrish |
Fruit ripening period | Mid-season |
Outdoor cultivation areas | Ukraine, Moldova, southern Russia |
Taste qualities of fruits | Excellent |
Commercial qualities of fruits | Excellent |
Plant resistance to disease | To be affected by viruses |
Description of the fruit
Color | Dark purple with glitter |
Skin | Thin, dense |
Form | Irregular spindle cylinder |
Fruit pulp | Dense, creamy in color, pleasant taste, no bitterness |
Preservation of fruits | Long shelf life without loss of commercial quality |
Seeds | No seed nest, the number of seeds is insignificant |
Fruit weight | 500–700 g |
Features of agricultural technology
Growing season from germination to technical maturity | 110–115 days |
Growing | Open ground, film shelter, greenhouse |
Sowing seedlings | 3rd decade of February |
Scheme of planting seedlings | 60 cm between rows, 40 cm between plants |
Seed sowing depth | 2 cm |
Permissible bush density | 4 things. per m2 |
Predecessors and green manures | Root vegetables, legumes, melons |
Plant
Height | 70–100 cm |
Bush | Compact, medium-sized, with a powerful stem |
Plant care | Shelter when temperatures drop, fertilizing with mineral and organic fertilizers, watering, deep loosening |
Spikes on the cup | Absent or rare |
Productivity of the variety
Average | 10 kg/m2 |
Reviews from gardeners
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