Many summer residents and gardeners are engaged in tomato cultivation. And this hardly surprises anyone - delicious, juicy vegetables not only diversify the menu, but are also a source of many vitamins.

Today, even a novice gardener has access to a huge variety of tomato varieties. Early, late, yellow, red, small for salting and large meaty for salads. As they say, for every taste and color. But even against this background, varieties of tomatoes with a potato leaf stand out, surprising those who first encounter such plants.

The advantages of these varieties are as follows:

  • tomatoes with a potato leaf type are resistant to diseases;
  • yield.

general information

There are a lot of varieties of potato-type tomatoes, but you should not run to the store and purchase the entire list at once. You need to carefully study the characteristics and choose one variety of tomatoes with leaves like potatoes, the most suitable for the description. Next, you should try to plant it on your personal plot and see how good it is. It is not a fact that this variety of tomatoes will appeal to you, which means that it is too early to abandon traditional varieties.

Potato-type tomato varieties

Important! The main feature of tomatoes with a potato leaf is a weak susceptibility to late blight. Not absolute immunity (sometimes, unscrupulous sellers talk about this), but good stability.

Just like regular tomatoes, potato leaf tomatoes need to be treated for major diseases.

  • Late blight. At the first signs of the disease, spraying with a weak solution of garlic helps. You need 100 g per 1 liter of water.
  • Brown rot. Potato-type tomatoes are susceptible to brown rot. For the prevention of disease and obtaining a good harvest, the vigilance of the gardener, timely processing and fertilization with phosphorus and potassium is important. It is these elements that contribute to the development of immunity against this disease.

Tomato varieties with potato leaf list

How to identify potato or regular tomato type? It is very simple to identify such a variety: by the leaves. Potato tomatoes have a potato-like leaf on the shoots. Several dozen varieties are cultivated in Russia, but ordinary people prefer only a few well-known varieties.

Raspberry Ozharovsky

Potato raspberry tomato - characteristics and description of the variety:

  • Shoot bush, indeterminate, standard.
  • The stem is unstable, weak. Height up to 1 m.
  • The number of fruits in one cluster is 6. Ripening time up to 3.5 months.
  • Fruits are dense, round. Weight - up to 800 g, color - crimson.

The best cultivation option is in greenhouses, in the open field. Sowing seeds 2 months before planting in the ground. Needs a dive. The formation of a bush takes place in 2-3 stems, a garter is needed.

Greenhouses for potato-type tomatoes

Top dressing - 3-4 times during the growing season. You can use stimulants and complex fertilizers to increase the quality of fruits, accelerate growth.

Watering - in the evening, with warm water. Loosening of the soil, weeding and hilling significantly reduce the harmful effects of fungi and pathogens.

Affected by brown rot. Healthy growth and rapid maturation depend on disease prevention - loosening, hilling, weeding is required. When infected, all affected parts are removed (carefully burned).In this case, the risk of spreading infection and contamination of neighboring bushes is noticeably reduced.

Early love

It is considered one of the best varieties of potato-type tomatoes. It is a pleasure to cultivate such tomatoes. Well suited for those who cannot often visit their garden.

It is interesting! Variety Early Love is so unpretentious in its care that many experienced gardeners openly call it a variety for the lazy.

The tomato is medium-sized, does not require tying. The variety is early maturing. The growing season is 3.5 months. Plant height - up to 80 cm, strong tops. It is unpretentious, but differs in average yield indicators (up to 5.5 kg from 1 m³).

Ripe fruit weight - 100 g. Fruits are round in shape, rich red or pink hue. Resistant to late blight, fruit cracking. You can increase the yield by moderate watering and applying top dressing: root, foliar. The fruit tastes sweet, fleshy. Perfect for salads, canning, juicing and pickling.

Sowing seeds - end of March. The soil is mixed with peat or other fertile soil. The seeds are buried 1 cm deep. The crops are covered with a film, a temperature of +25 is maintained under the film until the seeds germinate. After the seedlings have sprouted, the film is removed, the seedlings are placed on the windowsill and germinated at a temperature of + 15-17 degrees.

After a week, the temperature is raised to +22 degrees. Seedlings dive when 2 leaves hatch. It is planted in open / closed ground when 7 leaves are formed on the 65th day.

Vintage Vine

The tomato bush is tall - up to 1.8 m. It needs a garter and pinching. The variety is mid-season. High yield of fruits is achieved by forming a bush into 2 stems.

Vintage Vine

The fruits of the tomato are large, flat-round, at the time of ripening they have red with yellow specks. Fruit weight 350-400 g, fruit color - striped, pink. The taste is sweet, there are few seeds. In Russia, especially in the middle lane, it is advisable to grow it in a greenhouse.

Zorzha

Another tomato variety with potato leaf type. Varietal peculiarity - early maturity and high yield.

Fruits are pale pink, round, one-dimensional, round, weight 300 g. The variety is undersized - no more than 60 cm, needs support. The variety is resistant to temperature fluctuations, fungal diseases and late blight.

Denis

The variety will not leave indifferent gardeners. Bred in the USA, undersized, fruiting type - carpal. There are up to 8 fruits in a cluster. After the formation of the brush, the growth of the plant continues from the stepson, which is under the brush.

The height of the plant in the open field does not exceed 70 cm, which makes the variety resistant to sudden gusts of wind.

In shape, the fruit is perfectly even and evenly colored. Fruiting in the garden until frost. Fruit weight - 100 g. Needs regular and delicate watering. Suitable for preserving and preparing summer salads.

Mikado pink

The cultivar is often called "imperial" because the fruit is shaped like an imperial crown.

The variety is perfect for breeding in a small area. The height of the bush is up to 2.5 meters.

Mikado pink

The growing season is 3.5 months. Up to 9 fruits ripen on one bush. The plant needs a garter, pinching. In Russia, they are grown in a greenhouse and in an open area.

Fruits are pink, weight up to 0.5 kg. Perfectly stored and transported. Tomato changes its taste when canning, it is better to use it fresh, in summer salads.

Tomato potato description

One of the main and interesting achievements of modern breeding is the potato tomato variety. These are plants - a hybrid of crops.

The plant is obtained by grafting. After a while, the stalks of potatoes and tomatoes grow together, resulting in a variety with amazing properties. Such a hybrid is perfect for cultivation in small gardens.

The plant is called differently:

  • tomato;
  • pomato (from the English words potato - potato + tomato - tomato);
  • tomato;
  • potato machine;
  • potato, etc.

It is interesting! The idea of ​​planting tomato on potatoes originally came to the head of the Soviet pensioner N.V. Brusentsov. In 1936, on this topic, under his authorship, an article was published in the journal "Yarovization".

However, the real boom began only in the 21st century, when the British company Thompson & Morgan began selling seedlings under the name "Tomtato".

"Tomtato" is the name of a plant that harmoniously combines features of two cultures: tomatoes and potatoes. The plant makes it possible to simultaneously grow tomatoes on the bush, and potatoes in the roots.

The plant received the name "tomtato" as a product of genetic crossing of crops. The plant can grow about 5 hundred cherry tomatoes, and white potatoes additionally grow on it under the ground. At the same time, the tubers are quite suitable for food: they can be boiled or fried.

Genuine British Tomtato seedlings are worth a lot. Therefore, those who want to appreciate the merits of a hybrid grow it at home on their own. At home, you need to plant potatoes in April in a pot with nutritious soil. After 14 days, graft the tomato to the potato using the copulation method (combining plant cuttings with an identical diameter). It is best to graft the plant when the potato and tomato seedlings are about half a centimeter in diameter.

"Tomtato"

Tomatoes with a potato leaf type have some interesting features and are suitable for many summer residents. However, experienced gardeners do not recommend completely abandoning traditional varieties, abruptly switching to a new type of plant.