Eggplant Ilya Muromets

Eggplants attract gardeners with their delicious taste and the opportunity to diversify the winter table with canned delicacies of their own preparation. Long-term plants have time to mature in a short summer and in the northern regions with the use of shelters under a film or in stationary greenhouses. Eggplant Ilya Muromets is one of the most popular varieties of the Gavrish seed company.

Description of the heroic variety

Eggplant Ilya Muromets

Ilya Muromets medium-ripening eggplants for growing in the open field and under the film reach technical ripeness in 110-115 days after full germination.

Attention! Seeds for seedlings are sown in the third decade of February. Eggplant seedlings grow slowly. The formed bushes are planted on the site in May, when the weather stabilizes, the night temperature will exceed +15 degrees.

In the southern regions, eggplants of the Ilya Muromets variety are cultivated in the open field, in the central and northern regions - under a film shelter and in greenhouses. Film tunnels are preferable: heat-loving eggplants overheat in the greenhouse on hot days, they can lose the ovary and color.

The variety justifies the name Ilya Muromets: the bush reaches a height of 1 m, branched, dense, powerful... Fruits of deep dark purple color are striking in size - irregular spindle-shaped cylinders with a diameter of 10 cm and up to 40 cm in length, weighing more than half a kilogram. The yield of the variety goes off scale for 10 kg / m2... Favorable reviews contribute to the spread of Ilya Muromets eggplants.

Agricultural technology of cultivating varieties

For two and a half months of active growth of eggplant seedlings of the high-yielding variety Ilya Muromets, the plant acquires 5-7 true leaves and a branched root system. A pick, if necessary, is carried out until the plant has parted with the cotyledon leaves. If it is possible to do without transplants that are traumatic for the roots, immediately plant the germinated eggplant seeds in large pots.

Eggplant Ilya Muromets

A medium-sized eggplant of the Ilya Muromets variety is planted in fertilized soil. The wells are pre-filled with compost or humus, filled with water to the brim. After repeated water-charging irrigation, we plant seedlings with a clod of earth in the slurry, deepen the root collar by 1–2 cm. The roots are not injured with such a planting, the survival rate of plants is 100%.

On top of the hole we mulch with dry humus with a layer of 2 cm. Moisture does not evaporate, a crust does not form on the soil surface. After 2 days, we rake the mulch, carry out loosening - gardeners call this operation dry irrigation. Mulch after loosening returns to its original place. The air has access to the roots of the plant, the capillaries through which moisture evaporates are broken. The roots do not dry out. In hot weather, eggplant seedlings are shaded, but in the morning and in the evening they give plenty of sunlight.

After planting, shoots and lower leaves are removed before the first fork. So, a bush is formed so that the sun is enough for every plant and leaf. With the appearance of the ovaries, another operation is to be performed to remove it. 5-7 large fruit ovaries are left on the bush. Others are removed, including flowers. This is a forced measure: the eggplant of the Ilya Muromets variety is a large-fruited plant, if you do not lighten the bush, the ripening of the fruits will stretch to cold weather. The fruits are crushed.

Eggplant Ilya Muromets

Varietal characteristics and features

Description of the variety

Seed producer

Gavrish

Fruit ripening period

Mid-season

Open field cultivation areas

Ukraine, Moldova, southern Russia

Taste qualities of fruits

Excellent

Commercial quality of fruits

Excellent

Plant resistance to disease

To be attacked by viruses

Description of the fetus

Color

Dark purple, with glitter

Skin

Thin, dense

The form

Irregular spindle-shaped cylinder

Fruit pulp

Dense, creamy, pleasant taste, no bitterness

Fruit preservation

Long shelf life without loss of marketability

Seeds

Absence of a seed nest, the number of seeds is insignificant

Fruit weight

500-700 g

Features of agricultural technology

The growing season from seedlings to technical maturity

110-115 days

Growing

Open ground, film shelter, greenhouse

Sowing seedlings

3rd decade of February

Seedling planting scheme

60 cm between rows, 40 cm between plants

Seed sowing depth

2 cm

Permissible thickening of the bushes

4 things. per m2

Predecessors and siderates

Root crops, legumes, melons

Plant

Height

70-100 cm

Bush

Compact, medium-sized, with a powerful stem

Plant care

Shelter when the temperature drops, fertilizing with mineral and organic fertilizers, watering, deep loosening

Thorns on the calyx

Absent or rare

Variety yield

Average

10 kg / m2

Reviews of gardeners

You can find unbiased opinions about eggplant varieties on forums where gardeners communicate informally, share experiences and gain knowledge.

Vera Tsikunova, 43 years old, Saratov
If the soil is not just fertile, but oily, Ilya Muromets eggplants grow by leaps and bounds. Autumn application of manure to the soil, top dressing with a thick infusion of bird droppings or cow cakes, deep loosening is now applied not only to one crop. The bush gives up to 5 kg of fruit. The variety is thermophilic, but the heat oppresses it. In the fall he is doing well.
Turysheva Larisa Nikolaevna, 56 years old, Serov, Sverdlovsk region
Under a film in the northern Urals, eggplants of the Ilya Muromets variety ripen in the open field under a film. I sow seedlings in peat tablets, do not dive. I start to take off the harvest from the middle of August. Not afraid of short-term cold snaps, real Ilya Muromets. Surprisingly, the giant fruit yields a pinch of seeds.
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