What are the most productive tomato varieties?

The dream of every tomato grower is to get, as they say, not a simple harvest, but a "golden" one. Everyone wants the plants to bypass diseases, and the fruits to grow large, tasty and in large quantities. One of the main factors that can meet these requirements is the correct selection of seed material, namely high-yielding tomato varieties. These types of tomatoes are especially valuable for owners of small plots of land, because they allow you to provide a family with fresh vegetables by planting only a few tomato beds. There is no surplus in such a case - fruits that have not been eaten can always be preserved or sold to neighbors. What can we say about growing crops on an industrial scale, when profit directly depends on the amount of goods.

Today we want to share with you some little secrets on how to pick up tomato seeds and what to be guided by when choosing them, as well as tell you which tomato varieties are recognized as the most productive and are very popular among gardeners.

Read also the article: how to pinch tomatoes correctly?

Variety selection criteria

Before you go to the store to buy seeds, you should decide on some questions, namely:

1. Where tomatoes will grow... If it is written on the seed packaging that they are intended only for greenhouse cultivation, then such a variety should not be planted in the open field. Of course, the bushes in the beds will not disappear, but they will not please with the promised harvest. For greenhouses, choose only greenhouse varieties, and the corresponding, more resistant ones for open ground. If you plan to grow tomatoes in pots on the windowsills, stop your choice on compact varieties: although they are small, they are quite capable of giving a good harvest, both for their size.
2. What should be the shape of the bush. The most productive are tall types of crops, among which the majority are large-fruited, but they occupy a larger area and require more maintenance, in particular, garters and installation of supports. If you decide to stick to low-growing tomatoes in order to get a lot of fruits, you will need to plant more plants, which, in turn, will also take up a decent area. So think about whether it is worth the candle, and it may be better to plant a dozen tall bushes than fifty low ones.
3. What is the purpose of growing a crop (for food or for conservation)... Some of the most delicious are salad varieties of tomatoes with sweet pulp, but they are not suitable for canning, especially as a whole. But pickling or canned types of tomatoes with dense skin and strong pulp tolerate processing well and do not fall apart, so consider this when choosing seeds.
4. When to harvest... Usually, a lot of vegetables are required at the time of conservation, when winter harvesting is in full swing. For these purposes, buy canned, medium and late varieties of tomatoes. And in order to diversify your summer diet with vitamins, pick up a few early salad varieties. 

No matter what high-yielding tomato variety you choose, the main thing is that it must be zoned, that is, adapted to local climatic conditions.

Even the most high-yielding thermophilic species, bearing abundant fruit in the southern zone, will lose this ability in the northern latitudes, moreover, they will start to get sick.

The best tomatoes for greenhouse cultivation

In early spring, you will have to pay a decent amount for the first fresh tomatoes, but even this fact does not guarantee the quality of vegetables. It's good if the tomatoes are “local” and come to the market from the nearest greenhouse. If the owners are decent people, there is at least a chance that there will be a minimum of "chemistry" in the fruits. But in supermarkets, there is a risk of getting into imported tomatoes that have neither taste nor smell. The benefits of such "vitamins" are zero, but they can do plenty of harm, ranging from simple allergies to intestinal upset.

Many gardeners, in order not to worry about such issues, grow vegetables in greenhouses yourself. Having even a small film cover in your possession, it is easy to provide half of the street with tomatoes if you use abundantly fruiting varieties. It is important that both table species and tomatoes, which are used for winter harvesting, grow well in such conditions.

By using varieties with different ripening times, you can pick fresh vegetables almost all year round.

Harvest salad varieties of tomatoes for the greenhouse

Some of the most delicious and fruitful salad tomato varieties for greenhouse cultivation are:

1. Fairy gift... Early medium-sized (up to 1 m) variety with orange heart-shaped fruits. The pulp is sweet, firm. Resistant to fusarium, tobacco mosaic and verticillium. Requires pinching, garter and three-stem shaping. Bears fruit abundantly in greenhouses and garden beds.
2. Pink angel. Another early ripening species of compact form. It grows almost independently, does not require pinching. Fruits weighing up to 80 g are sweet, round in shape, painted in dark pink color, there are many ovaries on the bush. The pulp is sweet, dense, with a strong skin, due to which it tolerates transportation well and is good both fresh and salted.
3. Pink pearl... The bushes are not tall, but they give many small fruits weighing up to 110 g (about 4 kg of the crop can be removed from one plant). Due to the full bunches, the plants need a garter, as they can break under the weight of the crop. The tomatoes themselves are round, pink, sweet. A characteristic feature of the variety is the ability to bear fruit abundantly even in the most primitive, unheated, amateur greenhouses. Almost unaffected late blight, tolerates lack of lighting well.
4. Geisha... Delicate pink large tomatoes with yellowish-green spots at the stalk weigh up to 200 g. The pulp is sweet and juicy, ideal for salads and not only. The variety is mid-season, the bush grows no more than 70 cm in height, but is strong, and easily withstands clusters with 3-5 fruits even without a garter. Almost does not suffer from late blight and fusarium.
5. Search F... A taller bush up to 1 m in height gives a large number of round reddish tomatoes with dense skin. The variety has good resistance to the main diseases of tomatoes, can grow both in the greenhouse and in the beds in the garden. The harvest is plentiful, but without the formation of a bush, its number decreases.
6. Andromeda... Hybrid early variety with good taste and fruitful characteristics. The fruits are tied in large tassels, their shape is rounded, slightly flattened. They can be red or yellow, depending on the species (yellow tomatoes are twice as large). The bush in the greenhouse grows up to 1 m in height, semi-spreading, requires a garter.
7. Amana orange. Fleshy orange fruits with juicy pulp grow to an average of 0.3 kg each. The variety is mid-season, tall, requires shaping in 2 trunks and pinching, but in this way you can grow a tomato weighing up to 1 kg. Planting in open ground is possible.

High-yielding greenhouse varieties of tomatoes for conservation

In greenhouses, not only lettuce tomatoes are planted. For residents of the northern regions, this is a good opportunity to independently provide themselves with vegetables for winter harvesting.

Choosing types canning tomato, you should give preference to plentifully fruiting varieties with dense fruits.

Some of the most productive varieties of tomatoes grown in a greenhouse for conservation are:

1. Auria... A tall liana-shaped bush will delight you with an abundance of rather large tomatoes weighing from 100 to 200 g. They grow in brushes of 8 pieces each, in total up to 15 brushes are tied on the bush. Red fruits are long, plump, slightly forked at the tip, the flesh is dense, fleshy. Tomatoes are ideal for whole seaming. The variety is mid-season, disease-resistant.
2. De Barao Tsarsky... A tall bush up to 2 m in height in greenhouses gives the highest yield - up to 20 kg of fruit can be removed from one bush, subject to feeding. Tomatoes are slightly oblong, pink-red, weighing from 150 to 170 g. The pulp is juicy, but firm. The variety is suitable for conservation and salting, with good immunity to diseases, but requires pinching and installation of support.
3. Banana feet... The bush in the greenhouse grows up to 1.5 in height, when formed in 3 stems, it gives a bountiful harvest. Long yellow tomatoes with very firm flesh and citrus flavor are suitable for pickling and preserving whole.
4. Pink raisins. The bush is quite tall, more than 1.5 m in height. Ties complex multi-fruited brushes with small oval tomatoes, in one brush there can be up to 50 pieces. Fruits are sweet, pink, with a dense skin and pulp, behave well when canned as a whole (do not crack).

Harvest varieties of tomatoes for open ground

The southern regions do not need greenhouses for growing tomatoes: an abundance of sun, warm weather, long summer and they themselves create ideal conditions for the development and fruiting of a crop. However, in order not to depend on the vagaries of nature, it is also better to use proven varieties, which, not to the detriment of yield, have an increased immunity to weather changes and firmly endure both heat and a long rainy summer.

Salad varieties of tomatoes for growing in the open field

Such fruitful varieties of tomatoes for open ground for table use are very popular among gardeners:

1. Anastasia... The mid-early indeterminate variety is most often used in the southern regions, where its yield indicators are at their maximum. Bushes up to 1 m in height will delight you with medium rounded red fruits with a slight acidity, which are used both fresh and for pickling and rolling in whole. From 1 sq. m. you can get more than 10 kg of tomato, while the plants are not demanding on the soil.
2. Raspberry Giant... The bushes themselves are not very large (up to 1 m), but they will delight you with large pink fruits. The weight of one fleshy and juicy tomato can reach up to 0.5 kg, and up to 6 kg of harvest can be taken from only one bush. The variety is early, does not require pinching, and is resistant to late blight.
3. Giant green... Differs in large (from 0.3 to 0.6 kg) green fruits with a slight yellow tint. The pulp is tender and sweet, it smells like a melon. You can take up to 5 kg of fruits from one plant. The bush is tall, more than 1.5 m in height, it needs pinching.

Fruitful canned tomatoes for open field

Although lettuce tomatoes are delicious, not all of them can be used for winter preparations. For instance, for salting and whole large-fruited fruits will not fit (they simply will not fit into the jar), while other species have too soft pulp and thin skin.

In this case, pick up medium-sized tomatoes for seedlings with dense fruits that cover the bush in abundance, or species with long-term fruiting.

Some of the most productive and tasty canned tomatoes for open ground are the following varieties:

1. Roma... A stable, low, but powerful hybrid will delight with small, up to 100 g, creamy red tomatoes with elastic flesh. One brush consists of 20 such cream.
2. Gazpacho... A good harvest can be removed from a small bush up to 45 cm in height - up to 5 kg of small red cylindrical tomatoes with dense pulp. The variety is mid-ripening, easy-going, resistant to temperature extremes and diseases.
3. Diabolic... A powerful bush up to 1.5 m high needs support and pinching, but it will tie dense clusters of 10 red tomatoes that look like elongated cream. The fruits are ideal for pickling and rolling whole due to their firm pulp. The variety is characterized by high yields regardless of high or low temperatures (up to 20 kg per 1 sq. M.), As well as resistance to most diseases of nightshade crops, including root nematode.

List high-yielding tomato varieties it can be done for a long time, but you need to understand that the quality and quantity of the crop depends on the specific conditions for growing tomatoes and caring for them. If you want plants to thank you with an abundance of tasty fruits, give them a little attention, but it still does not hurt to focus on specialized varieties.

Varieties of productive tomatoes for open ground - video