10 best tomato varieties for the Urals

*A roundup of the best according to the editors. About the selection criteria. This material is subjective, not an advertisement and is not a guide to purchase. Before buying, it is necessary to consult with a specialist.

Short and unpredictable summer in the Urals leaves few chances to grow tomatoes successfully. But gardeners have learned how to do it. They have created their own special agricultural technique and choose the right tomato varieties.

Selection criteria

One of the main qualities that the selected variety should have is stress tolerance. Sharp temperature fluctuations and other vagaries of the weather should not interfere with the harvest.

There are other criteria to be guided by when choosing a tomato variety for growing in the Urals:

1. Early ripening time;
2. Effortless harvesting;
3. unpretentiousness;
4. resistance to diseases.

taste, yield, ability to be stored for a long time, and successful ripening are also important.

Our editorial staff has selected varieties for the open field and greenhouse, which meet all these requirements.

10 best tomato varieties for the Urals

Tomato varieties for open field

They grow perfectly on the bed, and under temporary film cover and, even more so, in the greenhouse feel even better.

“Alaska”

Rating: 5.0

This variety is an “extreme” one, able to bear fruit in any climatic zone, and it is not without reason that it is zoned at once in 12 regions. It was created by the breeders from the agricultural firm “Gavrish”, it was included in the State Register in 2002 and has since been loved by gardeners for its excellent characteristics.

Beautiful bushes are determinant type, grow no taller than 70 cm. They do not require shaping. If you want to get ripe fruit sooner than 90-95 days from sprouting, you can wean the lower stems. But in this case, the harvest will be less than the original 2 kg per bush. The taste of the fruits is good, they are designed for summer salads, but, according to gardeners’ reviews, they are also suitable for canning.

Advantages

• unpretentiousness;
• cold resistance;
• can be grown without seedling method;
• disease resistance;
• Suitable for room and balcony culture;
• aligned fruits;
• rapid yields.

Disadvantages

• Yields are good, but not excellent.

“Ascetic”

Rating: 4.9

This variety of Russian breeders is simply ideal for growing in the open air. If you follow the agrotechnics, even in the cold summer you can harvest 3.5 kg of tomatoes from one bush. Fruiting begins very early – on day 85 from the sprouts. Flat-round, slightly ribbed red fruits with smooth shiny skin gaining weight of about 100 g and ripen very amicably. They taste great. The bushes are bent, the height of not more than 60 cm. They do not require shaping. Garter belt only required if over harvested. Sown in seedlings this tomato should not be earlier than April 10.

Advantages

• Very early and friendly ripening;
• Beautiful level fruit;
• excellent yield;
• cold tolerance;
• resistance to disease;
• universal use;
• can be grown in pots of not less than 5l.

Disadvantages

• not found.

“Big Mamochka

Rating: 4.8

Variety was created by breeders of “Gavrish” company for the anniversary of the company. In 2015 it was included in the State Register, its excellent characteristics allowed it to be zoned in all regions of the country. Determinant powerful bush with a well-developed root system grows up to a meter, so they need to be supported. You will have to tie up and each brush, which can be up to 6 fruits weighing 200-350g. They are bright red, the shape is flat-round, closer to heart-shaped. According to feedback from gardeners, the taste is very good with a lot of sweetness. Tomatoes are good in fresh salads, they make excellent juice, tomato paste and sauces. Yield – high: up to 9 kg of tomatoes from 1 sq. m. To achieve these results you need to form plants in 2 or 3 trunks.

Advantages

• Early maturity – 90-100 days;
• great taste;
• high yield;
• Good marketability of fruits;
• transportability;
• stored well and perfectly ripened;
• resistance to most tomato diseases;
• do not fear heat and cold.

Disadvantages

• In cool summers, the fruit can be sour.

“Fairy tale”

Rating: 4.7

This variety of tomato is specially designed for those who can not give them much attention: boles strong low – about 50 cm bushes can not be trellised, only for a super-early harvest remove the stems to the first brush. Plants are stress-resistant, tolerate infrequent watering, tolerate cold well, do not reduce the yield with a little shading. The classic rounded red fruits with a weight of about 100 grams are highly marketable. Fleshy thick flesh – sour-sweet flavor. The skin is strong enough, so the transportability is excellent.

Advantages

• ultra-early maturity – harvesting begins 3 months after sprouting
• friendly yield of fruits;
• High yields – up to 3.5 kg per bush;
• unpretentiousness;
• universal use
• resistant to diseases, including phytophthora.

Disadvantages

• Taste good, but not great.

“Alsu”

Rating: 4.6

It is a real godsend for those gardeners who like big, tasty tomatoes and are going to grow them outdoors. The kidney-shaped or heart-shaped fruits with slight ribbing in the first brush may weigh 500 g or more. Average weight – about 300 g. Tomato color – red, sometimes with a pink tint. Pretty thin glossy skin. The fleshy flesh of multi-chamber fruits is full of juice and contains a lot of sugars, but sourness is hardly noticeable.

Siberian breeders endowed this variety with valuable qualities: high adaptive capacity to the vagaries of weather and resistance to disease. So it is suitable for outdoor and sheltered cultivation in all regions of Russia, including the Urals.

Determinant shrubs with a height of about 80 cm. The stems are not too strong, so their garter is mandatory. Gardening is also required – the maximum number of shoots left – 3. In this case, it is possible to achieve the declared original yield – 7 kg per 1 sq. m.

Advantages

• excellent flavor;
• Early maturity – 90-100 days from sprouting;
• high marketability of fruits – up to 90%;
• disease resistance.

Disadvantages

• Due to the large-fruitedness, they are not suitable for whole-fruit canning;
• Average yield.

Tomato varieties for greenhouse

Indoors in the Urals, it is advisable to grow early and medium-early varieties.

“Azoyushka”

Rating: 5.0

Variety bred by amateur breeder Valentina Kruglova about 40 years ago. Included in the State Register in 2021, recommended for cultivation in all regions for outdoor and greenhouse cultivation. Sometimes it can be found under the name “Azochka”. Indexed variety, in the greenhouse grows up to 2 m. The flowerbrush withers very early, already after the sixth leaf. Hence the early ripening period – 100-105 days. Yield is very high – up to 20 kg per 1 sq.m.

Fruits of “Azoyushka” are very ornate – bright yellow color. Flat-round in shape. Juicy fleshy flesh has a balanced tomato taste and is suitable for dietary use.

Bushes require shaping – remove all the stems, except for one growing under the first flower-brush. Garter is also obligatory.

Advantages

• Excellent flavor with fruity notes and an excellent appearance;
• high yield;
• large fruits – tomatoes gain mass up to 300 g;
• resistance to diseases;
• well tolerates the vagaries of the weather.

Disadvantages

• When stored, tomatoes quickly become watery.

“Pudovik

Rating: 4.9

This is one of the masterpieces of breeder Dederko V.n. It was bred in 2005 together with O.v.Postnikova. It took only 2 years for the variety to pass state tests and was included in the State Register. This indeterminate, in the greenhouse can grow to 1.8 m, but the maximum height of the plant 2.5 m. To ensure that all the fruit have time to ripen, the tops of the shoots are pruned. The stems are flexible, so a thorough tying is mandatory, you will have to tie up and each brush. In the Urals, plants are grown in one stalk.

The fruits of “Pudovik” are very large with an average weight of 400-600 g, not infrequent instances of more than one kilogram. They are heart-shaped with small ribs, sometimes asymmetrical. The color is bright – crimson-red. Their flavor is very intense, tomato-like, distinctly sweet with slight acidity. The skin is not tough, but dense enough not to crack, stored well – up to 30 days and excellent transportability. The main purpose – to eat fresh, but the juice is very tasty.

Advantages

• High yields – up to 5 kg per plant;
• Ripens in 110 days after sprouting;
• great taste;
• Withers fruit in all weathers;
• stores well.

Disadvantages

• Need prophylactic treatment against diseases;
• at temperatures below + 10 plant development slows down.

“Black Icicle”

Rating: 4.8

This tomato is simply ideal for canning – brown elongated plum-shaped fruits weighing about 100 g with dense, but not tough skin and fleshy flesh never crack. They are also good for drying or curing. According to gardeners’ reviews, they are very sweet and excellent for salad. Yields are very high – in the greenhouse up to 14 kg per 1 sq. m.

Indeterminant bushes, grow up to 2 m. It is best to lead them in 2-3 stems, the remaining stems are removed and thoroughly tie the plants.

The variety was included in the State Register in 2018 and zoned for many regions, including the Ural.

Advantages

• Beautiful appearance and excellent taste;
• high yield;
• resistance to major diseases;
• universal use;
• ripens in bunches;
• ripens in medium early maturity – 105 days after sprouting.

Disadvantages

• Not often, but it still suffers from apical rot.

“Amana orange”

Rating: 4.7

Many gardeners call it one of the tastiest tomatoes. At the 2016 U.S. Tomato Festival, it was ranked in the top ten for taste out of 600 participants. Already this is a strong argument for the sort of a residence on the site. But it has other advantages. Flat-round slightly ribbed fruits can reach a mass of 300 to 600 grams. In each brush, which grows on powerful indeterminant bushes up to 2 m high, there are up to 5 pieces. It is clear that such plants require a good garter. The husks will also have to be cut – in the Urals, the plant gives the best yields in one stem. Orange tender flesh is sweet, has a fruity flavor. It contains almost no seeds.

Advantages

• great taste;
• Excellent yield – up to 5 kg per bush, with good conditions and observance of agrotechnics much more;
• does not crack;
• Average early maturity – 105-110 days from sprouting;
• universal use;
• disease resistance.

Disadvantages

• delicate flesh and thin skin do not allow tomatoes to be stored for a long time, they also can not be transported.

“Red Charcoal

Rating: 4.6

This tomato is classified as a medicinal – the unusual coloring indicates a high content of anthocyanins. The fruits are very ornate. At technical ripeness they are green with blue shoulders, at biological ripeness the shoulders turn black-purple and the underside is bright red. On the whole, the fruits resemble smoldering embers. Among similar varieties, “Red Charcoal” is one of the most large-fruited – gaining mass up to 200g. The pink flesh is very juicy with high sugar content and fruity notes. universal use. The skin is quite dense, so the fruits can be transported, in a cool place they store for about a month. Maturation period – medium-ripening

Indeterminant bushes, powerful, grow up to 1.8 m. They are grown in 2 stems, and must be tied to a pole.

Advantages

• excellent taste;
• beautiful appearance;
• Prolonged fruiting – fruits set until frost
• High yield – up to 6 kg per bush;
• According to the feedback from gardeners, high resistance to phytophthora and other diseases;
• does not crack.

Disadvantages

• not found.

Features of agrotechnics of tomatoes in the Urals

Frosts in the Urals are possible even in early June, so tomatoes in the open ground and in the greenhouse planted later than in the central belt. This shifts the timing of sowing seeds for seedlings.

The place for culture choose the sunniest, often preparing warm beds, and not only in the open ground, but also in the greenhouse. Always prepare a temporary film cover on the beds – to protect against possible cold spells. All agro-technical techniques must be carried out carefully and in time:

1. mulch the soil under the bushes;
2. water the lawn;
3. water it;
4. Treat against diseases.

Often an early cold snap makes you collect unripe fruits. They have to be finished off in the room, keeping the temperature right and the humidity right.