Tomato Kiss Geranium - a new variety of early tomatoes

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Recently bred by an American farmer, the Geranium Kiss tomato was not only a novelty that caused an explosion of positive emotions in gardeners and gardeners, but also a new word in breeding science.

This publication will tell about the features of the variety.

Tomato Kiss Geranium: description

This culture has very unusual characteristics. A versatile variety, equally successful in both open and protected conditions, forms a bush in different ways. On the beds in the southern regions, it is extremely decorative: compact and fluffy, reaches 50-60 cm in height. Under greenhouse conditions, the Geranium Kiss tomato is able to grow up to one and a half meters, despite the declared varietal determinism of the culture, i.e., limiting the growth of the main stem. The versatility of a tomato is also manifested in its ability to grow productively on a balcony or in a loggia.

The variety is early ripe. Even in the conditions of temperate Russian latitudes, a plant grown in greenhouse conditions gives its first fruits already in July. The culture is especially valued for its high fruit formation, formingbrushes, for which 60-100 ovaries is the norm.

Fruits

Tomato Kiss of Geranium is characterized by a scattering of medium-sized ripening fruits - glossy, one-dimensional, red-crimson round-oval with a noticeable elongated nose.

The weight of each tomato varies from 25 to 50 grams. The taste of the pulp, according to the reviews of vegetable growers who have become acquainted with this breeding novelty, is very good for an early variety - pleasant, sweet, dessert. The fruit does not form many seeds, they are quite small.

In addition, a high resistance of the culture to traditional nightshade diseases was also noted. Perhaps early ripeness saves the variety from most of them, since the peak of tomato misfortunes occurs in the second half of summer, when the crop finishes fruiting.

Geranium Kiss Tomato is excellent for fresh consumption, salads, snacks, as well as for making sauces, juices, ketchups, pickles and other vegetable preparations for the winter. The size of the fruit makes it ideal for whole fruit canning.

Growing Requirements

Tomatoes Geranium Kiss - lovers of fertile neutral or slightly acidic soils, loose, light, permeable. The plots are prepared before planting by adding humus, wood ash and complex mineral fertilizers when digging. In the southern regions, tomatoes are sown directly with seeds into the ground; in the temperate zone, it is impossible to do without a seedling period. Young plants are planted in the prepared place in the third decade of May.

It is advisable to place no more than 5 bushes per square meter, maintaining a distance between them of 40-45 cm.

Geranium Kiss Virtues

Tomato, the photos of which are shown in this publication, has significant advantages:

• Unpretentiousness in cultivation - tomatoes of this variety do not require pinching and installation of additional structures for supports.
• Versatility of plant and use.
• High yield with good fruit formation.
• Enviable resistance to diseases such as macrosporiosis, phytosporosis, cladosporiosis, etc.
• Stamina.
• The ability to successfully endure transportation.