Tomatoes "Little Red Riding Hood" gain the increasing popularity among gardeners, thanks to large number of advantages. Fruits of "Little Red Riding Hood" have excellent taste, besides they are suitable for preparation of salads, sauces and juice.
Tomato "Little Red Riding Hood" - the grade removed by the German landowners especially for areas with temperate climate. Recommended for cultivation in greenhouses and also on the balconies and in room conditions.
Description of the Little Red Riding Hood:
- The grade tomato differs good productivity and transportability.
- The bush undersized and to compact, in height reaches about 40 cm therefore does not need podvyazyvaniye.
- Besides, "Little Red Riding Hood" can be not pasynkovat. Thanks to these qualities the grade perfectly is suitable for busy summer residents who cannot pay much attention to care for landings.
- Tomatoes have rounded shape and are painted in saturated and crimson shade.
- On one brush 3-5 fruits are formed.
- Pulp dense and fleshy, walls thin. The mass of one fruit averages 40-60 g.
- Skoroplodny grade. The maturing period - 90-105 days from the moment of emergence of cotyledons.
- The grade is resistant to number of the diseases characteristic of culture (even to phytophthora from which the most part of tomatoes suffers).
- The plant quite well transfers short-term temperature differences.
- "Little Red Riding Hood" perfectly reacts on application of fertilizers, but does not demand special fertilizing. High productivity in combination with the minimum leaving are pleasant bonus for gardeners.
Crops of seeds and care for seedling
"Little Red Riding Hood" is grown up in the seedling way. Seeds before landing needs to be prepared, having kept in weak-pink solution of potassium permanganate. After that the planting stock is recommended to be couched. For this purpose:
- In saucer pour warm water. Put cotton rag.
- Place on it the seeds which are previously disinfected in potassium permanganate.
- Cover planting stock with damp rag and put to the warm and light place.
- In 2-3 days the seeds will arise and they can be landed to the earth on seedling.
Effective way of prorashchivaniye of seeds of tomatoes is soaking in aloe juice which is the strongest biological stimulator. After such processing the seedlings grow strong and healthy.
When seeds arise, they can be landed in the containers filled with prime quality land. The first shoots will appear in 5-7 days. Care for seedling during this period comes down to periodic moistening of soil. After emergence of 3-4 real leaflets the seedlings of "Little Red Riding Hood" need to be raspikirovat on separate pots. During the same period begin fertilizing of seedling with mineral complexes.
In spite of the fact that "Little Red Riding Hood" well transfers insignificant cold snap, it is preferable to temper seedling before disembarkation to the constant place. In 10 days prior to moving to the greenhouse begin to take out saplings on balcony or verandah, gradually increasing the time spent of seedling for air.
Landing of seedling to the greenhouse and further care for tomatoes
The optimum period for disembarkation of "Little Red Riding Hood" to the greenhouse - the second half of May. By this time seedling will enough get stronger.
Step-by-step description of process:
- In advance prepare bed, bring humus and carefully dig over soil.
- Level surface and make holes according to the scheme of 75×45 cm.
- In each pole pour in warm water as "Little Red Riding Hood" demands abundant moistening at change of seedling from containers in soil.
- Take out saplings from pots, place them in the humidified hole and fill up with the soil, slightly stamping it. Landings it is abundant water.
- Next day once again humidify the soil and leave saplings that they have acclimatized and have taken roots.
Care for "Little Red Riding Hood" elementary. It comes down to regular waterings, loosening and mulching of surface of soil for moisture keeping. As mulch it is possible to use:
- new-mown grass;
- straw;
- the weeded young weeds (which were not in time to tie seeds).
Important! When using new-mown grass and weeds as mulch it is necessary to slightly dry them a little in the sun to get rid of insects wreckers.
For tomatoes "Little Red Riding Hood" it is very important to receive enough nutrients therefore it is recommended to carry out the first fertilizing right after rooting of saplings in soil. For this purpose it is possible to use:
- superphosphate;
- chicken dung;
- potash salts;
- cow manure.
Responses of gardeners
Tomatoes "Little Red Riding Hood" were fallen in love to gardeners of our country for a long time. Characteristic of grade only positive, it has the whole set of advantages among which there are high tastes of fruits, simplicity in leaving. Grade of tomatoes "Little Red Riding Hood" as summer residents note, does not demand pasynkovaniye, at the same time the productivity does not decrease.
Ripe fruits have very thin skin and juicy sweetish pulp. It is possible to remove tomatoes immature, they perfectly keep up in the apartment and have excellent transportability.