Most gardeners who are familiar with Little Red Riding Hood tomatoes in the future prefer them. Why this happens can be understood from the article, which will provide a detailed description of the variety.
Description
Let’s start with impressive numbers. Tomatoes “Little Red Riding Hood” belong to the early varieties of tomatoes. The first harvest is ready for use after 95-100 days. The appearance of ripe fruits is quite attractive. Tomatoes are round, even and neat, small in size, and their weight is 60-70 g. Ripe tomatoes have a bright red deep color. Also, Red Riding Hood tomatoes can boast of a remarkable yield, and this, whatever one may say, is a very important indicator.
Ripe fruits have the thinnest and most delicate skin, so most gardeners grow this variety for fresh use. Despite this, tomatoes will also be good for salads and canning. For growing Red Riding Hood tomatoes, the soil is best suited after growing cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, cauliflower, parsley or dill on it.
Growing tips
Now it is necessary to pass to the description of methods of cultivation. Bushes of tomatoes “Little Red Riding Hood” are small, usually reach a height of up to seventy centimeters, but quite powerful. This characteristic makes it possible to breed a variety even on an apartment balcony, which cannot but please lovers of fresh vegetables. Professional gardeners classify this variety as a superdeterminant.
During the cultivation of tomatoes “Little Red Riding Hood” both in open ground and in greenhouse conditions, preference is given to the seedling method of cultivation. Transplantation of young bushes in open ground or in a greenhouse occurs after 60-70 days. It must be taken into account that if cultivation is planned in open soil, then it is necessary to wait out the time with possible frosts. Although, despite this, “Little Red Riding Hood” is a tomato variety that responds remarkably to low temperatures.
It’s time to talk about the possible intricacies of growing. Before sowing the seeds, they must be carefully disinfected and prepared. For these purposes, a mixture of potassium and manganese is used. After such manipulations, the seeds are thoroughly washed with clean water, and then soaked.
Expert reviews say that the seed should be sown in the soil 0,5 centimeters. There will be plenty of such depth for the variety. In the room where the boxes with seedlings will be located, the temperature regime should fluctuate between 18-25 degrees. Only in this way, after 5-6 days, you can see the first shoots.
As soon as the first shoots appear, it is very important to regularly fertilize and care for the bushes. When transplanting seedlings into the ground, do not forget to add fertilizer to the wells. Well, an important condition is the abundant watering of young bushes.
Reviews of experienced gardeners were divided in half. One half argue that the Red Riding Hood tomato variety requires abundant watering, while the second believe that moderate watering leads to good development of the root system. Allegedly, insufficient moisture will cause the plant to begin to take root deeper into the ground, and, due to this, the bush will receive the necessary amount of nutrients.
Having decided to grow tomatoes of this variety, you will either need to listen to the feedback of the first half and water and fertilize the plant abundantly, or take the side of the second part of the experts and move on to enriching the soil, and after the tomatoes are planted, observe them.
But in order to choose the right path, it is necessary to correctly assess the environment in which the tomatoes will grow and, only on this basis, determine the method of watering and fertilizing.
Video “Tomatoes Little Red Riding Hood”
From the video you will learn about the main agrotechnical characteristics of the Little Red Riding Hood variety, and also consider the ripe fruit.
