Gardeners who prefer to grow tomatoes in the open field, suitable harvest large-fruited variety Honey Spas.
Tomatoes are distinguished by a pleasant taste, juicy, rich pulp, they are rich in sugars and useful microelements. Bushes are unpretentious, but they need careful formation and reliable supports.
Tomato “Honey Spas”: variety description
Grade name | Honey saved |
general description | Mid-season indeterminantny grade |
Originator | Russia |
Ripening | 111-115 days |
The form | Fruits are round-heart-shaped. |
Colour | Pink orange |
Average tomato mass | 200-600 grams |
Application | Salad variety |
Yield varieties | 4-5 kg from a bush |
Features of growing | Required binding |
Disease resistance | Resistant to major diseases |
The variety of the Russian selection, is intended for cultivation in an open ground, but also cultivation in greenhouses is possible. Preferred for regions with warm, long summers that ensure the full maturation of all ensuing fruits. The last tomatoes can be collected in the stage of technical ripeness for later ripening in the apartment.
Honey Spas - mid-season high-yielding variety. From one bush can be removed 4-5 kg of tomatoes. Indeterminate shrub, about 150-180 cm in height. Requires binding to a vertical support or trellis. Tomatoes need the formation and removal of stepsons. Fruit ripening is gradual, throughout the summer.
The yield of other varieties can be found in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Honey Spas | 4-5 kg from a bush |
Katya | 15 kg per square meter |
Nastya | 10-12 kg per square meter |
Crystal | 9.5-12 kg per square meter |
Dubrava | 2 kg from a bush |
Red Arrow | 27 kg per square meter |
Golden anniversary | 15-20 kg per square meter |
Verlioka | 5 kg per square meter |
Diva | 8 kg from a bush |
Explosion | 3 kg per square meter |
Golden heart | 7 kg per square meter |
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Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- pleasant taste of the fruit;
- large tomatoes are not subject to cracking;
- good yield;
- resistance to adverse weather conditions;
- collected tomatoes are stored for a long time.
Among the features of the variety are high demands on the nutritional value of the soil, the need for pinching and tying to strong supports.
Specifications
Tomatoes “Honey Spas”: characteristics of fruits
- Fruits are large, from 200 to 600 g.
- The shape is rounded heart-shaped.
- color is bright, salmon.
- Smooth, shiny, dense skin and juicy pulp make tomatoes ideal for salads.
- High sugar content, taste delicate, sweet, with light sourish notes.
- Seed chambers are small and small.
You can compare the weight of the fruits of the Honey Spas variety with others in the table below:
Grade name | Fruit weight (grams) |
Honey Spas | 200-600 |
Broody | 90-150 |
Andromeda | 70-300 |
Pink Lady | 230-280 |
Gulliver | 200-800 |
Banana red | 70 |
Nastya | 150-200 |
Olya-la | 150-180 |
Dubrava | 60-105 |
Countryman | 60-80 |
Golden anniversary | 150-200 |
Variety refers to the salad. Tomatoes can be used for cooking side dishes, soups, juices, mashed potatoes. Honey Spas is ideal for diet food, especially useful for people with allergies to red fruits.
A photo
After reading the description of the tomato variety “Honey Spas”, we invite you to see this variety in the photo:
Features of growing
Variety Honey Spas planted on seedlings in early March. Seeds are sown in light soil based on humus and garden soil. It is desirable to take the land from the beds on which adult plants will be planted.
Read also the detailed articles about the soil for adult plants in greenhouses. We will tell you about what types of soil for tomatoes exist, how to prepare the right soil on your own and how to prepare the soil in the greenhouse in spring for planting.
Seeds are planted with a depth of 1.5 cm and sprinkled with a layer of peat. For better germination, the temperature in the room should not fall below 23-25 degrees. After the appearance of the first shoots, the temperature can be reduced.
In the phase of the first leaves, young saplings dive into separate pots, and then they feed with liquid mineral fertilizer with potassium and phosphorus. Watering should be moderate, tomatoes do not like stagnant moisture in the soil.
The seedling prefers bright sunlight, in cloudy weather it is illuminated with electric lamps. There are a huge number of ways to grow tomato seedlings. We offer you a series of articles on how to do this:
- in twists;
- in two roots;
- in peat tablets;
- no picks;
- on Chinese technology;
- in bottles;
- in peat pots;
- without land.
Planting in open ground is carried out in May, after the soil has fully warmed up. At first, young plants can be covered with foil. Landings are not thickened, the optimal landing pattern is 3 bushes per 1 square meter. m
Immediately after transplanting, the plants become attached to the support. Watering moderate, in between, the top layer of soil should be slightly dry. During the season, the bushes are fed several times with complex mineral fertilizers. The bush is formed in 2 stalks, all side stepchildren are removed.
Pests and diseases
The grade tomato Honey Spas is rather steady against diseases. It is a little subject to a fitoftoroz, gray decay, a tobacco mosaic and other viral and fungal diseases.
However, in a greenhouse or open field, tomatoes can be infected from other varieties. To prevent planting, it is recommended to spray phytosporin or other non-toxic bio-preparations.
In the garden, tomatoes are threatened by naked slugs, scoops, Colorado beetles, aphids and whiteflies.
Regular spraying with liquid ammonia in water helps prevent flying insects and slugs. Watering the soil with a solution of copper sulphate or potassium permanganate will help kill the parasite larvae. Remove the aphids will help the soap solution, which treat the affected plants.
Honey Spas - very productive variety. Enough to plant a few bushes, they will provide all the needs of the gardener. If desired, seeds for subsequent crops can be harvested on their own, they will give the best germination for 2 or 3 years.
In the table below you will find links to varieties of tomatoes with different ripening terms:
Mid-season | Middle late | Late-ripening |
Gina | Abakansky pink | Bobcat |
Ox ears | French grapevine | Russian size |
Roma f1 | Yellow banana | King of Kings |
Black Prince | Titanium | Long keeper |
Lorraine beauty | Slot f1 | Grandma's Gift |
Stellate sturgeon | Volgogradsky 5 95 | Podsinskoe miracle |
Intuition | Krasnobay f1 | Brown sugar |