We grow tiny tomatoes in the garden and at home - the “Button” tomato and the subtleties of caring for it

If you are not a fan of large tomatoes, then you will definitely like this variety tomato Button. The fruits of these tomatoes are very small, neat and at the same time very tasty. Children will surely like them. Decorating snacks, meat or fish with them is a pleasure. Button tomatoes add an interesting taste and sophisticated appearance to salads.

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 Button characteristics and description of the variety

Button 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 produces several stepsons, on which a thick 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, tomatoes weigh 20-25 g. Ripe tomatoes are elastic and bright red in color, aromatic, the taste is pleasant, sweet, the skin is thin.

How to evaluate productivity 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 the garden, at home on the balcony or on the windowsill.

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

We grow seedlings

Sowing seeds It's worth starting in March. Before this, you need to complete a number of points described below.

Seed preparation

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

If the seeds were stored in a cold room, 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 soaking them for 15-20 minutes in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate. This way you will get rid of diseases that live on the surface of the seeds.

To increase yield, you can soak the seeds in a nutrient solution the day before planting. These can be the drugs "Epin", "Immunocytophyte" or aloe juice.

Soil preparation

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

Choosing a container for seedlings

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

Sowing seedlings

In slightly wet soil, make 1 cm indentations at a distance of 5 cm from each other. Place the seeds in the indentations and then cover the box with film. Place the containers in a room with a temperature of 25 degrees. And in a week, expect the first shoots.

Growing and caring for seedlings

After the seeds germinate, move the boxes to a well-lit room and maintain a temperature of +14 to +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. At night, open the window for micro-ventilation, 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 watering is increased to 2 times a week. For watering, use water at room temperature.

Planting and caring for tomatoes

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

• This type of tomato needs to be watered regularly and abundantly.
• It will require a lot of fertilizer and daily feeding.

In all other respects, follow the standard rules.

Landing in the ground

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

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

If you follow these steps, then to get a good harvest, all that remains is to regularly water the plants (once a week), weed out weeds, and loosen the top layer of soil to provide access to oxygen. Small button bushes do not need a garter.

Planting in pots

You can transplant seedlings into pots a little earlier than into the ground. The sprout should be approximately 5 cm tall and have 3-4 leaves. For replanting, use 3-liter pots.

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 watering too frequently can harm the plant. Water tomatoes 1-2 times a week, but do not let the soil dry out.

Plants planted in beds do not need to be sprayed, as 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 receive 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. With proper care they grow quickly. And yet, as a preventative measure, treat all bushes once.

Harvesting and application

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

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

From everything that has been said about this variety, we can conclude that breeding Buttons is possible throughout the year. Plants tolerate minor temperature changes well. The main thing is not to let the thermometer drop below +18 degrees.

Button is ideal for home growing. Small neat bushes will fit perfectly on your windowsill or balcony.

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

This variety has practically no disadvantages, 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 them.

Farmer 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. Gives a good harvest with a variety of uses.

These are the reviews gardeners give:

Tatiana:

«Anyone who loves Cherry tomatoes should definitely try tomatoes under the cute name Button. Tiny tomatoes weighing less than 20 g ripen thickly on the bushes and decorate the beds with their unusual appearance. Restaurants love these small tomatoes - you can arrange your own supply of them. They look great in jars - I speak from experience, jars of canned tomatoes are very pretty!»

Irina:

«The Button tomato variety is characterized by its small size, both of the bush itself (up to 60 centimeters) and of the fruit. It does not require garter, and can be grown both in open ground and in pots on the balcony. Tomato fruits are quite small, weighing only 10-15 g. They have a round shape and a rich 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 growing and cultivating. The approximate age for planting seedlings in the ground is 60 days and occurs in the month of May, first planting in a greenhouse, and then 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 would look beautiful on the bush and look original in a salad, but somehow I never got around to it. And that year I got ready and planted a Button tomato. Let me clarify right away that I planted the tomatoes not in a greenhouse, but in a pot on the windowsill. I made a mistake when planting; I planted it early, in mid-February. Therefore, at the beginning the seedlings were weak and stretched out a lot, but after I began to feed the seedlings they became a little stronger and acquired a quite decent appearance. Despite the fact that I planted tomatoes in pots, the harvest was a success«.

Conclusion

The Button variety is excellent for growing on site and in an ordinary city apartment. For your efforts, you will receive not only incredibly tasty and aromatic fruits, but also 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 Button tomatoes for your health!