Each tomato variety has its own distinctive features and nuances of cultivation. Some tomatoes thrive in the open field, while others yield crops only in greenhouse conditions. The choice of one or another growing method, just like the varieties, is behind the gardener. This article will focus on the Iceberg tomato, intended for growing directly in the garden.
Description
The Iceberg tomato belongs to early ripening varieties. The plant practically does not need pinching and is intended for planting in open ground. The bush is undersized, strong, up to 80 cm in height.
Ripe fruits are rather large, fleshy, juicy, bright red in color. The weight of one vegetable can reach 200 grams. The yield is high. With proper care, up to 4 kg of tomatoes can be harvested from one bush.
In cooking, tomatoes of this variety are used for making juices, vegetable salads, and canning.
Benefits
The indisputable advantages of the variety include:
- good resistance to sudden temperature changes and good frost tolerance, cold resistance;
- high density of ripe tomato fruits;
- unpretentious cultivation and the absence of an urgent need for pinching and forming a bush;
- excellent presentation and excellent taste.
The ability of the variety to tolerate temperature changes and cold well gives it a great advantage among its fellows, thereby expanding the geography of planting, making tomato reproduction available even in the northernmost regions.
As you can see from the description, Iceberg tomatoes are not afraid of low temperatures and successfully drift in the vast northern regions with a short period of summer heat and harsh, frosty nights.
