When choosing tomatoes to plant in your garden plot, you can take a closer look at plants with fruits of unusual colors. For example, the Yellow Giant tomato has a good yield, the fruits are quite sweet and are usually suitable for consumption fresh.
This tomato is not suitable for long-term storage, but this is compensated by a long period of fruiting. You can have fresh tomatoes on your table almost the entire season.
Varietal characteristics
This tomato is an indeterminate plant with mid-ripening fruits; the height of adult bushes is 1.2 - 1.7 meters. Tomatoes are large and yellow in color when ripe. Tomatoes are classified as a salad variety, but can be used for canning by cutting them into slices.
From the moment of sprouting until the first harvest of tomatoes is harvested, 110–122 days should pass. The yield is up to 5.5 kg from 1 bush.
A positive characteristic of the variety is that fruiting lasts 1.5 months. The fruits can reach a weight of up to 400 g with proper care. The shape of the Yellow Giant Tomato is round, slightly flattened, and has a sweetish, honey-like taste.
The description of the variety shows that this giant tomato is not contraindicated for allergy sufferers; it is recommended for baby food, the weak and the elderly. The presence of a large amount of niacin in tomatoes helps strengthen blood vessels and normalizes heart function. Yellow tomato has a positive effect on the liver, kidneys and gastrointestinal tract.
Rules for growing Yellow Giant tomatoes
This tomato variety can be grown both in a greenhouse and in open ground. The height of the bushes of greenhouse plants will be slightly higher than that of tomatoes planted outside. Greenhouse fruits may ripen earlier. Growing seedlings in pots begins 2 months before planting them in the soil.
Since the bushes have tall stems, you need to build a trellis. When planting seedlings, their further growth should be provided for and more space should be left than for low-growing varieties. When growing a Yellow Giant tomato, pinching of the stems is required. Bushes bear fruit most productively if they are left with two large stems.
Tomato pests and diseases
Although the bushes look very strong, they are not resistant to diseases. Tomatoes of this variety are most susceptible to the following diseases: late blight, Alternaria blight, tobacco mosaic and other diseases that affect nightshade crops. Reviews from gardeners indicate the need for preventive treatment with fungicides.
Among the pests for tomatoes, the most dangerous is the Colorado potato beetle, which can completely destroy tomato seedlings or small bushes.
Pre-treatment of soil for tomato
The land for future planting of tall tomato bushes begins to be prepared in the fall. The soil is plowed and fertilized. It is considered optimal to apply rotted manure at this time in an amount of 4 kg per 1 sq. m. m. The same amount of organic matter is re-introduced in the spring, adding 1 tbsp. l. potassium chloride and 1 tbsp. l. superphosphate.
Planting tomato seedlings
Sowing seeds to obtain seedlings is carried out in the last week of February. At least 2 months must pass before planting in the soil or in a greenhouse.
The best indicators of germination, growth and yield of tomatoes from seeds purchased in specialized stores. If you plan to collect seeds from your harvest, you should leave them on the bushes until they are fully ripe, choosing the fruits of the most correct shape. After picking, the tomatoes are placed on the windowsill on the sunny side of the house. After the fruits become soft, their middle is taken into a container with water and kept in it for 2 - 3 days. Then the seeds are washed and laid out on a flat surface, for example, on a paper sheet to dry.
Before sowing, it is advisable to treat tomato seeds with a special solution.It can be prepared by diluting one of the following products in 1 liter of water: liquid fertilizers (“Agricola-vegeta” and “Effecton”), nitrophoska or wood ash. Soak the seeds for 1 day, and then take them out, dry them slightly, place them in a sealed bag and put them in the refrigerator. This procedure promotes seed hardening. After two days in the refrigerator, the seeds can be planted in the soil.
Preparing soil for Yellow Giant tomato
To plant seeds for tomato seedlings, soil consisting of peat soil, rotted humus and turf is used. It is advisable to bake it in a heated oven for 20 minutes.
The temperature should be set to 100 - 115 degrees. Pour soil into a baking tray in a layer of no more than 4 cm. Add 1 tsp to 10 kg of such substance. granulated superphosphate, potassium sulfate and urea.
Sowing tomato seeds
On the day of sowing, the soil in the containers is moistened and leveled. Then grooves are made 1 cm deep with a distance between similar grooves of 5 - 6 cm. Each seed is placed at a distance of two centimeters from the next. Sprinkle the furrow with a layer of soil mixture on top. Additional watering is not required for planted seeds.
Boxes with containers are placed on the south side of the house so that sunlight can penetrate into the room. The room temperature should be on average about +22 - 25 degrees.
A week after germination, picking is carried out and the tomatoes are transplanted into another container.
Planting Yellow Giant seedlings in the ground
Somewhere in mid-May is the ideal time to transplant tomato seedlings into open ground. To protect the seedlings of tall seedlings, the plants are sprayed with copper oxychloride.It is enough to dilute 1 tbsp in 1 liter of water. l. drug 90% concentration.
Holes measuring 15x15 cm are made in the ground. They can be placed either in one row or in a checkerboard pattern. Place 1 tomato bush in each hole. There should be a distance of at least 60 cm between the holes.
Fertilizing when growing tomatoes
Experienced gardeners advise carrying out a three-fold feeding tomatoes for the summer period. The first is done 10 days after planting the seedlings in the soil. For this purpose, a mash is prepared from bird droppings or cow manure by diluting 1 kg per 10 liters of water.
You can use ready-made fertilizers, such as “Gumisol”, “Vermistim”, “Rost-concentrate”. The description of these preparations gives recommendations for their application to the soil.
After each feeding, it is advisable to mulch the soil. Organics are scattered in a layer of up to 5 cm over the bed, using sawdust, straw or pine needles as mulch. This prevents the rapid evaporation of moisture from the soil and prevents the germination of weeds.
The next feeding of tomatoes is done 7 days after the tomato buds on the second cluster. At this stage of tomato growth, fertilizer is added to the soil from a solution of bird droppings or manure, as with the first feeding. The mixture for feeding is prepared from “Solution”. This time the additive consists of “Solution” fertilizer, copper sulfate and potassium permanganate (3 g per 1 bucket of water). 2 liters of fertilizer are poured under each tomato bush.
The last feeding of tomatoes is carried out when the first tomato crop begins to ripen. The composition of the mash is similar to the second feeding, but 2.5 liters of this mixture is poured under each bush.
If, after feeding, tomatoes stop producing new fruits and stems begin to grow actively, this indicates an excess of nitrogen fertilizers in the soil. In this case, the tomatoes are watered with water. superphosphate extract.
