Characteristics and description of the tomato variety Overture
Among the high-yielding vegetable plants, the tomato Overture F1, belonging to the indeterminate hybrids, can be noted. In addition to bountiful harvests, the variety still has many different advantages that give it the right to take its rightful place in the garden, in the greenhouse.
Distinctive characteristics of tomato
A description of the 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 maturing species.
- The tomato pleases with red rounded fruits without a green spot at the leg weighing from eighty to one hundred grams.
- There is a lot of sugar in the taste of tomatoes, the pulp is high in dry matter.
- Tomatoes are evenly spaced on the fruit branches, which allows them to be realized with brushes.
- For ten days, ripe fruits can maintain their integrity without cracking.
- Tomatoes need a cool, dry storage area after harvest.
- The dense skin of tomatoes prevents them from spoiling for two weeks, and 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 indeterminant is planted in a greenhouse rather than outdoors.
The characteristics of the vegetable plant indicate that the bushes reach a height of one and a half meters and more. The leafiness of the stems is medium. Tomatoes are resistant to the tobacco mosaic virus, fungal diseases - verticillosis, cladosporia, fusarium.
Tomato growing methods
The Overture variety thrives under film coverings and outdoors.
At any place where a vegetable is planted, it is necessary to sow tomatoes for seedlings. Seeds are prepared in advance, rejecting low-quality seeds. Then the seed is placed in a gauze bag, dipping it into a solution of potassium permanganate for twenty minutes. Similarly, the seeds are placed in a growth promoter 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 two days. The processed tomato seeds are ready for planting.
They are buried one centimeter inside the soil that has been disinfected with boiling water or potassium permanganate solution. 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.
In order for the seedlings to grow healthy and strong, they need:
- water moderately;
- feed with superphosphate, potassium salt or mullein;
- illuminate with fluorescent lamps with a short light day;
- keep warm;
- dive after the appearance of two true leaves.
As soon as the seedlings are 60-65 days old, they must be transplanted to a permanent place.
Planting and caring for a vegetable in the open field
It is possible to plant seedlings in the garden only when the soil temperature reaches ten degrees Celsius. This usually happens from the beginning to mid-May, depending on the climatic conditions of the region. In small areas, planting is compacted by placing tomatoes between the rows of early cabbage. Of course, the soil for the vegetable must be highly fertile, moist and free from weeds.
Since the indeterminate variety has a branched aerial part, the 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 to four bushes on one square meter.
Growing tomatoes in the open field requires:
- watering during the formation of fruits, three buckets per square meter;
- top dressing - the first ten days after planting, the rest every two weeks;
- timely weeding with hands or 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 the open field.
Greenhouse planting and care
The transplantation of seedlings of the plant into the greenhouse takes place in late April - early May. A week before, the room is warmed up by placing fresh manure in it. Boiling water is used to warm it up. Then the soil is poured with a layer of twenty centimeters. Tall bushes of the variety are placed in the ground as deep as possible. Too elongated tomato shoots are laid between the rows, covering part of the stems with earth.
It is imperative to tie up the tomatoes by driving in pegs next to the bush or by constructing a trellis.
As soon as the tomato bush begins to develop, it is necessary to remove the excess processes - stepsons, breaking them off with your hands. Plant care consists of watering and feeding. 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 the greenhouse and presents with tomatoes a week earlier. Reviews about the yield of tomato Overture are distinguished by excellent exclamations. Many farmers choose the tomato variety for sale. The presentation of the hybrid fruit is beyond praise.
