Among the high-yielding vegetable plants, one can note the Overture F1 tomato, which belongs to the indeterminate hybrids. In addition to abundant harvests, the variety has many different advantages that give it the right to take its rightful place in the garden bed or greenhouse.
Distinctive characteristics of tomato
Description of Tomato Overture includes the following provisions:
- They reach maturity 101-112 days after sowing, which makes it possible to classify the variety as an early ripening species.
- The tomato pleases with red round fruits without a green spot on the stem, weighing from eighty to one hundred grams.
- Tomatoes have a lot of sugar in their taste, and the pulp has a high content of dry matter.
- The tomatoes are evenly spaced on the fruiting branches, which allows them to be sold in bunches.
- For ten days, ripe fruits can maintain their integrity without cracking.
- After harvest, tomatoes need a cool, dry place to be stored.
- The thick skin of tomatoes prevents them from spoiling for two weeks; they tolerate transportation well.
- The variety has a total yield of about 24 kilograms per square meter, or six kilograms per bush.
Fruiting increases when the indeterminate is planted in a greenhouse rather than in open ground.
The characteristics of the vegetable plant indicate that the bushes reach a height of one and a half meters or more. The foliage of the stems is average. Tomatoes are resistant to tobacco mosaic virus and fungal diseases - verticillium, cladosporiosis, fusarium.
Ways to grow tomatoes
The Overture variety feels great under film coverings and in the open air.
At any place where a vegetable is planted, it is necessary to sow tomatoes for seedlings. Seeds are prepared in advance, rejecting low-quality ones. Then the seed material is placed in a gauze bag, immersed in a solution of potassium permanganate for twenty minutes. Similarly, place the seeds in a growth stimulator for two to three hours. If they need to be hardened, they will first stay in warm water for half an hour, and then on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for a day or two. Treated tomato seeds are ready for planting.
They are buried one centimeter inside the soil, which has been disinfected with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate. The distance between the holes in the box should not be less than three centimeters, otherwise the seedlings will not have enough nutrients for development.
For seedlings to grow healthy and strong, they need:
- water moderately;
- feed with superphosphate, potassium salt or mullein;
- illuminate with fluorescent lamps during short daylight hours;
- keep warm;
- dive after two true leaves appear.
As soon as the seedlings are 60-65 days old, they must be transplanted to a permanent place.
Planting and caring for vegetables in open ground
You can plant seedlings in the garden only when the soil temperature reaches ten degrees Celsius. This usually occurs from early to mid-May, depending on the climatic conditions of the region. In small areas, plantings are compacted by placing tomatoes between rows of early cabbage. Of course, the soil for the vegetable must be highly fertile, moist and weed-free.
Since the indeterminate variety has a branched aerial part, tomato bushes are placed at a distance of fifty to sixty centimeters from each other. One plant is planted in one hole, planting up to three or four bushes per square meter.
Growing tomatoes in open ground requires:
- watering during the period of fruit formation, three buckets per square meter;
- feeding - the first ten days after planting, the rest every two weeks;
- timely weeding by hand or with a hoe;
- loosening the soil;
- tying up bushes;
- forming a plant into one or two stems.
Tomatoes Overture NK F1 with proper agricultural technology give high yields in open ground.
Planting in a greenhouse and care
Transplantation of plant seedlings into a greenhouse occurs in late April - early May. A week before, the room is heated by placing fresh manure in it. Boiling water is used to heat it up. Then the soil is poured in a layer of twenty centimeters. Place tall bushes of the variety in the ground as deep as possible.Tomato shoots that are too elongated are placed between the rows, covering some of the stems with soil.
It is imperative to tie up the tomatoes by driving pegs next to the bush or constructing a trellis.
As soon as the tomato bush begins to develop, it is necessary to remove excess shoots - stepsons, breaking them off with your hands. Plant care consists of watering and fertilizing. The main thing is that care is carried out in a timely manner. As soon as the tomato fruits turn brown, they begin to be removed from the bushes.
Those who have grown the hybrid note that it grows better in a greenhouse and produces tomatoes a week earlier. Reviews about the yield of the Overture tomato are distinguished by excellent exclamations. Many farmers choose this variety to grow tomatoes for sale. The presentation of the hybrid fruits is beyond praise.
