Variety of German breeding Little Red Riding Hood

Most gardeners who are familiar with Little Red Riding Hood tomatoes prefer them in the future. Why this happens can be understood from the article, where a detailed description of the variety will be given.

Description

You should start with impressive numbers. Little Red Riding Hood tomatoes belong to the early varieties of tomatoes. The first harvest is ready for consumption after 95-100 days. The appearance of ripe fruits is quite attractive. Tomatoes are round, smooth and neat, small in size, and weighing 60-70 g. Ripe tomatoes have a deep red color. Also tomatoes "Little Red Riding Hood" can boast of remarkable productivity, and this, whatever one may say, is a very important indicator.

Ripe fruits have the thinnest and most delicate skin, so most gardeners cultivate this variety for fresh use. Regardless, tomatoes are also good for salads and canning. For growing tomatoes "Little Red Riding Hood" is best suited to the soil after growing on it cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, cauliflower, parsley or dill.

Growing recommendations

Now you need to go to the description of the growing methods. Tomato bushes "Little Red Riding Hood" are small, usually up to seventy centimeters in height, but powerful enough. This characteristic makes it possible to breed the variety even on an apartment balcony, which cannot but please lovers of fresh vegetables. Professional gardeners classify this variety as a super determinant.

During the cultivation of "Little Red Riding Hood" tomatoes both in the open field and in greenhouse conditions, the preference is given to the seedling method of cultivation. Transplanting young bushes into open ground or into 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 reacts remarkably to low temperatures.

It's time to talk about the possible intricacies of growing. Before sowing seeds, they must be carefully disinfected and prepared. For these purposes, a mixture of potassium and manganese is used. After carrying out such manipulations, the seeds are thoroughly washed with clean water and then soaked.

Experts say that the seed must be sown 0.5 centimeters into the soil. 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. This is the only way to see the first shoots after 5-6 days.

Reviews of experienced gardeners were divided in half. One half claims that the Red Riding Hood tomato variety requires abundant watering, while the others believe that moderate watering leads to good root development. Allegedly, insufficient moisture will cause the plant to start putting its roots deeper into the ground, and, due to this, the bush will receive the required amount of nutrients.

Having made the decision 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 enrich 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 irrigation and fertilization.

Video "Tomatoes Red Riding Hood"

From the video you will learn about the main agrotechnical characteristics of the Red Riding Hood variety, and also consider the ripe fruit.