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The Vintage Wine tomato is an American variety that is popular, including in Russian gardens. Its distinctive feature is its variegated color. The variety is characterized by sensitivity to temperature conditions, so in cold regions it is best to grow bushes in protected ground.
Origin story
The Vintage Wine variety was bred by breeders under the leadership of Tom Wagner, a famous creator of exotic tomatoes. A crop from the Solanaceae family adapts perfectly to any type of soil and climate. Fruits abundantly in open soils and in greenhouses.
During the fruiting period, the bushes of the variety are strewn with elegant fruits
Description of tomato variety Vintage wine
A tall bush (indeterminate type) reaches a height of up to 1.8 m in a greenhouse. On open beds, the height of the tomato does not exceed 1.5 m.Powerful, strong stems are covered with dark green leaves. Branching is weak. When pinched, the bush looks quite neat.
The flowers are yellow and small. Each cluster produces 3-4 fruits. They are beautiful and large, weighing from 150 to 250 g. They are distinguished by their flat-round shape with pronounced ribbing. When mature they are light red in color with many yellow streaks. Covered with a glossy thin skin, but at the same time resistant to transportation over long distances.
The pulp is fleshy, juicy, light scarlet in color. The taste is excellent, sweet, with a slight sourness. When cut, the pulp emits a pleasant tomato aroma.
Tomato has a highly developed root system, which ensures good yield
Characteristics of tomato Vintage wine
In addition to its attractive appearance and high consumer qualities, the tomato variety Vintage Wine has positive biological characteristics. It is important to study them at the initial stage of growing a crop, as they affect growing conditions and care features. It is also necessary to familiarize yourself with yield indicators, ripening periods and plant resistance to diseases and pests.
Ripening and fruiting
According to the ripening period, tomato is an early ripening vegetable crop. Fruiting begins four months after the sprouts appear.
Tomato yield Vintage wine
The yield from one bush is 3-4 kg of ripe tomatoes. These are quite high indicators of the productivity of the variety. However, such results can only be achieved with proper care, which includes watering and fertilizing.In order for the fruits to grow larger, it is necessary to form a bush with one stem, and to obtain medium-weight fruits, but in large quantities, it is necessary to form two or three stems.
Resistance to diseases and pests
Like any garden crop, Vintage wine suffers from diseases. At the same time, the authors of the variety characterize the tomato with strong immunity. Subject to agrotechnical rules, the plant resists insect invasion. To maintain the increased resistance of tomatoes to diseases and pests, it is necessary to carry out preventive treatments.
Bushes need to be regularly pinched to ventilate the crown.
In what regions is it grown?
The Vintage Wine tomato variety is suitable for planting in regions with different climates. The plant is grown even in cold regions of Siberia, but in a heated greenhouse. In open areas, tomato grows well in the southern regions of the country.
Methods of application
First of all, Vintage wine tomatoes are eaten fresh. Due to their excellent taste, they are very popular in cooking. The fruits are also used for drying, juices, winter salads and sauces.
Advantages and disadvantages
This variety of tomatoes does not cause any difficulties in growing. It is enough to follow agricultural techniques in order to harvest throughout the season. The tomato is suitable for cultivation by beginners.
Tomatoes of the Vintage wine variety, due to their highly marketable appearance, are in demand on the market
Pros:
- high productivity;
- transportability;
- stable fruiting regardless of weather conditions;
- simple and straightforward care;
- excellent consumer qualities;
- universal use in cooking;
- marketable condition.
Minuses:
- poor keeping quality;
- the need for tying, shaping and pinching.
- compliance with agricultural practices under film covers for disease prevention.
Subtleties of planting and care
Tomato variety Vintage wine is an unpretentious crop, but heat-loving; in order to get an early harvest, it is grown through seedlings under film. It loves warmth, moderate watering and rich soil.
It is advisable to prepare the area for this crop in the fall. The soil must be carefully dug up, loosened well, aged manure (10 kg/sq. m), compost and wood ash must be added. In the spring, the area needs to be loosened again and the soil fertilized with mineral fertilizers.
Tomatoes are placed according to a 50x70 cm pattern. Tomato seedlings are planted in open ground at the end of May or at the beginning of June. Usually at this time the air temperature reaches +15 ° C and the soil warms up well, and it must be thoroughly moistened. Tomato seedlings are placed in holes and tied to stakes. Wet soil is mulched with peat or humus to maintain a high level of humidity.
The plant is susceptible to temperature fluctuations and frosts
This crop needs additional nutrition. To get an environmentally friendly tomato harvest, it is recommended to use natural fertilizers: slurry, a solution of bird droppings or wood ash. The plantings are watered with the nutrient composition at the beginning of fruiting. Tomatoes grow juicier and sweeter.
Water tomatoes abundantly, but rarely, avoiding waterlogging and drying out of the soil.
Diseases and pests
This type of tomato has good resistance to common ailments if properly cared for. It is most susceptible to the disease blossom end rot. Signs of the disease appear as watery spots of a dirty green hue on the top of the fruit. Blossom blossom leads to a halving of tomato yields.
Treatment with calcium nitrate helps cure affected plants.
The appearance of brown spot (cladosporiosis) is associated with violation of conditions in the greenhouse. To prevent the disease, it is necessary to maintain air humidity at 75-80% and ventilate the structure more often. When planting tomatoes, it is not recommended to place the bushes too densely. Having noticed the symptoms of the disease before flowering and fruiting, it is necessary to apply the drug Hom, Abiga-pik or Ordan. Fitolavin, Baktofit, Fitosporin are considered to be safe remedies for cladosporiosis for tomato bushes. Their use is permissible in any phase of the plant’s growing season.
The Colorado potato beetle can be collected by hand if its numbers are small. Then the tomato plantings should be sprayed with an insecticidal composition. To combat slugs under bushes, you need to scatter eggshells, broken glass or ground mustard at the rate of 1 teaspoon per square meter. m.
Tomato agricultural technology does not exclude the occurrence of certain difficulties, but they are easily overcome
Conclusion
Tomato Vintage Wine has received many positive reviews from gardeners. Almost all of them praise it for its yield, marketability and excellent taste characteristics, highlighting the variety’s undemandingness to growing conditions. At the same time, the culture requires compliance with agrotechnical techniques.
