We grow tiny tomatoes in the garden and at home - the "Button" tomato and the intricacies of caring for it

If you are not a fan of large tomatoes, then you will definitely like the variety. tomato Button. These tomatoes have very small fruits, neat and at the same time very tasty. Children will surely like them. Decorating snacks, meat or fish with them is a pleasure. Pugovka tomato salads give an interesting taste and an exquisite look.

In addition, miniature bushes of this variety will perfectly decorate your windowsill or balcony. Thanks to their bright green foliage, they create a feeling of coziness and freshness.

Tomato Pugovka characteristics and description of the variety

Pugovka tomatoes grow on small bushes 60-70 cm high. The trunk of the bush is quite stable and strong. The branches grow upward, forming an oval shape. The leaves are elongated, juicy green.

The tomato bush gives several stepsons, on which a dense ovary is formed. Thanks to this, 12-15 tomatoes can ripen on each branch. The fruits themselves are small, their weight is 10-15 g, in rare cases the tomatoes weigh 20-25 g. Ripe tomatoes are elastic and bright red, fragrant, the taste is pleasant, sweet, the skin is thin.

How to rate yield tomato Button? Each stem grows 3-4 clusters with fruits. On average, up to 1 kg of tomatoes are harvested from one bush. But with the right choice of planting site and quality care, you can collect from 1.5 to 3 kg per bush. It does not matter whether you plant plants in a garden bed, at home on a balcony or on a windowsill.

This variety is considered early ripening, since the first harvest is harvested already 90-95 days after germination.

Growing seedlings

Sowing seed worth doing in March. Before that, you need to complete a number of points described below.

Seed preparation

Choose the largest ones, they have more nutrients, so plants will grow stronger and healthier from such seeds.

If the seeds were stored in a cold room, then they need to be warmed up. Just put them in fabric bags and keep them on the battery for 2-3 days.

Before planting, it is recommended to disinfect the seeds by keeping them for 15-20 minutes in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate. So you get rid of diseases that live on the surface of the seeds.

To increase yields, you can soak the seeds in a nutrient solution a day before planting. It can be drugs "Epin", "Immunocytofit" or aloe juice.

Soil preparation

If you are planning to buy soil for seedlings, choose peat. If you plan to prepare the soil yourself, take a loamy soil and add some humus, peat, or sawdust to loosen the soil.

The choice of container for seedlings

For this variety, seedling boxes are the best choice. In them, you can take care of all the sprouts at the same time and move the container to the right place without problems.

Sowing seedlings

In slightly damp soil, make indentations 1 cm apart 5 cm apart. Place seeds in the indentations and then cover the box with plastic wrap. Place containers in a room with a temperature of 25 degrees. And in a week, wait for the first shoots.

Growing and caring for seedlings

After the seeds germinate, move the boxes to a well-lit room and maintain the temperature in it between +14 and +16 degrees... If you do not have a room suitable for lighting, illuminate the sprouts with lamps.After a week, you can raise the temperature to +20 degrees. Open the window for micro-ventilation at night, but there should be no drafts.

Until the leaves appear, it is enough to spray the ground with water. With the appearance of the first leaves, you need to water the seedlings once a week, then increase watering up to 2 times a week. Use room temperature water for watering.

Planting and caring for tomatoes

Growing Buttons is not troublesome, but there are several requirements, without which it will not be possible to harvest a good harvest:

• this type of tomato must be watered regularly and abundantly
• it will take a lot of fertilizer and daily feeding.

In all other respects, adhere to the standard rules.

Landing in the ground

After 6-7 leaves appear on the shoots, they can be transplanted into the ground.

• if you planted seedlings in March, do the pick in early June;
• plant plants at a distance of 45-50 cm from each other;
• be sure to fertilize the soil well before planting.

If you follow these points, then in order to get a good harvest, it will only be necessary to regularly water the plants (once a week), weed from weeds, loosen the topsoil to provide access to oxygen. Small bushes Buttons do not need a garter.

Planting in pots

Seedlings can be transplanted into pots a little earlier than into the ground. The sprout should be about 5 cm tall and have 3-4 leaves. Use 3 liter pots for transplanting.

To plant tomatoes at home, use a special mixture that is sold in gardening stores. It consists of earth, humus and wood ash. You can also add 10 g of urea and potassium salt.

Features of cultivation and possible difficulties

Remember that too frequent watering can damage the plant. Water tomatoes 1-2 times a week, but do not let the ground dry out.

It is not necessary to spray the plants planted in the beds, since they do not like moisture on the leaves in cool weather. But at home, where the humidity is much lower and the temperature is higher, you can spray the bushes. But don't do this during the flowering period.

If you plant this variety of tomatoes at home on a balcony or windowsill, then they get less light, so it is recommended to illuminate them with a regular or phyto-lamp. And don't forget to unwrap the pots daily.

Button tomatoes are resistant to many diseases. Grow quickly with proper care. And yet, as a preventive measure, treat all the bushes 1 time.

Harvesting and application of the crop

The first crop is harvested in mid-July - early August. You can simply please yourself and your loved ones with small, juicy, tasty tomatoes. They can be used to decorate elegant appetizers and main courses, use in salads and preserves.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Of everything that's been said about it sort, we can conclude that the breeding of Pugovka is possible throughout the year. Plants tolerate minor temperature changes well. The main thing is not to let the thermometer drop below +18 degrees.

For home cultivation, the Button is ideal. Small neat bushes will fit perfectly on your windowsill or balcony.

This variety is considered early maturing. From the moment the seeds are planted to harvest, an average of 90 days pass.

There are practically no disadvantages of this variety, the only caveat is that the plant needs high-quality soil.To get a good harvest, you will need to feed the plants and fertilize.

Farmers reviews

Button tomatoes are in demand among farmers and have extremely positive reviews. They are planted because the variety is hardy, disease resistant and relatively unpretentious. Produces a good harvest with a wide variety of uses.

These are the reviews given by gardeners:

Tatyana:

«Whoever loves Cherry tomatoes should definitely try the tomatoes under the cute name Pugovka.Tiny tomatoes weighing less than 20 g ripen densely on the bushes and decorate the beds with their unusual appearance. Such small tomatoes are loved in restaurants - you can arrange your own supplies for them. They look great in cans - I say this from my own experience, cans of canned tomatoes are very beautiful!»

Irina:

«The Pugovka tomato variety is characterized by a small size, both of the bush itself (up to 60 centimeters) and of the fruit. It does not require a garter, and can be grown both in the open field and in pots on the balcony. Tomato's fruits are rather small, weighing only 10-15 g. They have a rounded shape and deep red color after ripening. The fruits can be eaten raw and canned; they are especially good for decorating dishes.

The variety does not require any special methods of cultivation and cultivation. The approximate age for planting seedlings in the ground is 60 days and falls on the month of May, first planting in a greenhouse, after which in open ground. But the yield of this variety is not very high, on average 1 kg per bush ".

Marina:

«I always wanted to try to grow baby tomatoes, so that they look beautiful on the bush and look original in the salad, but somehow everyone did not get around. And that year she got together and planted a tomato Pugovka. I will clarify right away that I did not plant tomatoes in a greenhouse, but in a pot on the windowsill. When planting, I made a mistake, planted early, in mid-February. Therefore, at the beginning, the seedlings were weak, strongly stretched, but after I began to feed the seedlings, it got a little stronger and acquired a pretty decent look. Despite the fact that she planted the tomatoes in pots, the harvest was a success«.

Conclusion

The Pugovka variety is excellent for growing on a plot and in an ordinary city apartment. For your efforts, you will receive not only incredibly tasty and fragrant fruits, but decorative bushes that will create the feeling of a home greenhouse. At the same time, there are practically no difficulties in growing, the variety is unpretentious, resistant to temperature changes, hardy and has a high yield.

Grow and eat Pugovka tomatoes for health!