Features of growing tomatoes Sanka

First tomatoes in the season - what are they? These first-rates were in a hurry to get to our table and had not yet had time to turn bright red. They still have little flavor and are a little tasteless. But we still buy them to add to our first summer vegetable salads. One of the earliest tomato varieties ripening in Russian latitudes is Sanka. Gardeners speak differently about it.

Let's find out more about the Sanka tomato and analyze it advantages and disadvantages.

Characteristics and description of the tomato variety

Sanka tomatoes are an early variety. Seed producers promise on the packaging that tomatoes will ripen 80-90 days after germination.

Reference. Due to its early ripening, the Sanka tomato variety is very popular, especially in Russian regions with short summers.

The bush is short - up to 50-70 cm in height. Determinate and compact. Does not require pinching. Sanka is grown both in a greenhouse and in open ground.

Fruit

Tomatoes grow bright red in color. The very first fruits may be pale. The fruits are medium or small in size. The weight of tomatoes is up to 100 g (usually 70-80 g). Admire these beauties in the photo:

5-7 tomatoes grow in a cluster.

Productivity

Up to 2.5 kg of tomatoes are harvested from one bush. This means that the variety has good yield.

Pros and cons of the variety

Sanka is often called “the variety for the lazy.” And this is fair, because this variety has many advantages:

• early, long and productive fruiting;
• bushes do not need to be pinched;
• The size of the fruits is good for canning.

At the same time, it has disadvantages, namely:

• not too pronounced tomato taste (especially in the first fruits);
• weak resistance to diseases.

Features of cultivation

Sanka tomato seeds are planted as seedlings (like most tomatoes in Russian latitudes) or directly into the soil under agrofibre. Seeds are planted for seedlings in March, and in the ground in May.

Seedlings are planted in the main place, maintaining a distance of 40-45 cm between plants in the row. The same distance is left between the rows. The planting density is 5-6 bushes per square meter of area.

Feeding

With proper care and feeding, the variety produces good yields. During growth, flowering and ripening, experienced gardeners advise feeding the bushes three times with complex fertilizer.

This is best done in the growth phases of tomatoes, when the bushes have:

• buds;
• flowers;
• fruit ovaries.

Important! Do not apply fresh manure to tomatoes. With it, the bushes will begin to grow green mass and the fruits will get little.

Fertilizing with an ash-boron mixture gives good results. Wood ash or ashes are collected for it. For 1 liter of ash add 10 liters of water. Add 0.5 teaspoon of boric acid powder to the solution.

Attention! It is recommended to dissolve boric acid crystals in hot water.

The resulting mixture is thoroughly stirred and foliar feeding of the tomatoes is carried out (the plant is sprayed with an ash-boron solution). The solution must cool before application.

Care

Caring for tomatoes of the Sanka variety, in addition to fertilizing, consists of:

• weeding;
• watering;
• preventive measures to protect against diseases and insect pests.

Prevention of diseases and pests

Seed producers claim high resistance to late blight.Those gardeners who plant tomatoes early confirm that the plants are practically not affected by late blight.

From pests and diseases will be helped by the rules of crop rotation and folk remedies for prevention (they are preferable to “chemistry”). For example, garlic baths will help repel pests. For them, prepare a solution of 150-200 g garlic, infused in 5 liters of water for 3-4 hours. The solution is sprayed onto the plants.

Reviews from gardeners about the variety

Tomato growers leave different reviews about the Sanka variety:

Viki1967: “I plant the seeds in the ground in early April under cover. Germination is always good. I noticed a peculiarity: at first the fruits on the bush are medium in size, and then they become smaller. But still good for pickling. They grow until the first frost. I tie up the bushes, although you don’t have to do this. The fruits have little sweetness and a classic tomato smell.”

Neilya, Sverdlovsk region: “Dense fruits. Ideal for salads. But they are also great for seaming, they look great in a jar. I plant this variety because it is very early.”

Anna, Serpukhov: “I didn’t like the tomatoes, they were sour.”

Antonina Evgenievna, Tula: “With this variety I always have a good harvest. Tomatoes ripen gradually, which prolongs their harvesting period. Last year I picked the last red tomatoes from the bushes in September. But there were still brown and green tomatoes on the plants at that time. They ripened outside the bushes of the house on the windowsill.”

Nikolay, Ukraine: “Bushes with a good root system, powerful. On a 10-point scale I give it the highest rating. I love this variety for its unpretentiousness. Since the variety is early, it has time to ripen even before late blight begins to spread.”

Let's sum it up

The tomato variety Sanka is one of the first to bring its tomatoes to gardeners at the beginning of summer. They grow it in order to please themselves with the first summer tomatoes as early as possible. True, there are so many people, so many opinions. Some people, having grown this variety, keep it as their favorite forever. Others say this tomato has no sweetness or tomato flavor. This can probably be forgiven for the tomato due to its very early ripening period. Better yet, plant this variety yourself and form your own opinion about Sanka tomatoes.