Tomato "Novice" has long established itself as an excellent taste and good yield, and its popularity is increasing every year. In this article, you will find the characteristics and description of tomatoes "Novice" and learn the features of care for them.
Features and advantages of the variety
Tomatoes "Novice" - a plant of determinant type. It is compact, non-stem bush, the average number of leaves, which is typical for green tomatoes. The height of kustovtomata "Novice" -from 50 to 90 cm. In order to get a good harvest, you need to constantly remove all emerging stepchildren. Laying the first brush comes after the fifth-seventh leaf of the plant, the following brushes are formed through one or two leaflets. In the brush can develop six to seven tomatoes of almost the same size.
Important! Picks should be carried out immediately after the appearance of the third true leaf, and the first pasynkovaniye - transplanting seedlings on the ridge.
Tomatoes of this variety are presented in two forms: pink and red, with excellent taste qualities: their fruits are fleshy, dense, and sugary pulp with a rich sweet taste. Tomatoes have from three to five chambers, oval egg-shaped. The fruit weight of tomato "Novice" ranges from 85 to 105 g.
The advantages of this variety of tomatoes are huge:
- It is good both fresh, and for industrial processing and preservation.
- Suitable for cultivation in open ground and in greenhouses.
- Quite a friendly and fast ripening of the crop, which occurs after 53-56 days from the date of transplanting.
- This variety is resistant to the main diseases of tomatoes (brown spot, gall nematode).
- Excellent presentation.
- Good preservation of tomatoes during transportation, which is very important when delivering tomatoes to the place of sale.
Did you know? In terms of botany, tomatoes are berries. By decision of the European Union in 2001, the tomato was recognized as a fruit, not a vegetable.
Seed preparation for sowing seedlings
In order for plants to be strong and shoots amicable, it is necessary to carry out a certain preparation of seeds before sowing for seedlings. For this, the following procedures are recommended: culling, dressing, germination and hardening.
Culling
This rather simple and easy procedure will help you to select the largest and fullest seeds. To do this, dissolve a teaspoon of salt in a glass of water, pour the seeds into the solution and mix well. After 10-15 minutes, after the seeds have settled, you need to remove the surfaced, and the bottom of the bottom, rinse with water and dry. These seeds will be the first to be planted.
Pickling
Seeds are kept for 20-25 minutes in a weak solution of potassium permanganate to destroy the causative agents of various diseases on the seeds.
Important!In order to speed up seedlings, seeds can be germinated by wrapping them in filter paper or gauze. At the same time make sure that the paper and gauze does not dry out, but you can not allow excess moisture.
Hardening
To make tomatoes more resistant to temperature extremes, it is necessary to carry out the following procedure: put the soaked seeds in a refrigerator for 10-12 hours, then allow them to stand at the temperature of 18-22 ° C for the same amount of time. Do this procedure several times.
Interesting! Tomato "Novice" was bred at the Volgograd breeding station, and in 1986 this variety was registered in the State Register.
Growing your own seedlings
This is a very crucial and important stage, which requires knowledge of certain subtleties of growing seedlings, and the whole further procedure of growing tomatoes will depend on it.
Scheme and depth of sowing seeds
The depth and pattern of sowing seed tomato "Novice" is almost no different from other varieties of tomatoes. Seeds for growing seedlings are sown in boxes at the end of March or early April to a depth of about 1-1.5 cm, then they are poured with a thin layer of earth, slightly watered, covered with foil and placed on the window sill or in another sunny place.
Soil preparation and care
It is recommended to irrigate the ground in which tomato seeds are sown with a growth stimulator. In the hardware stores you can buy special nutrient soil to grow seedlings. But it can also be easily prepared by yourself. To do this, take in two parts of humus one part of mullein, one part of land, and six to seven parts of peat. It is necessary to monitor the soil so that it is loose, sufficiently wet and without weeds.
Planting seedlings in open ground
Planting tomatoes in an open field is an equally important and crucial stage, because the quality and quantity of the tomato crop will depend on the correct planting of the seedlings. Tomatoes can be planted in the greenhouse, which contributes to the earlier ripening of the crop, and in the open ground.
Optimum timing and landing pattern
Before planting tomato seedlings in open ground, you need to prepare the soil. To do this, a week before planting, you can make a hot solution of copper sulfate on the site, as a treatment for pests. And only then fertilize the soil with mineral and organic fertilizers. 10 kg of humus, half a bucket of wood ash and 50-70 g of superphosphate are added to one square meter. Then dig up the site. It is necessary to plant seedlings when saplings reach at least 25 cm in height and their root system has developed sufficiently. Tomatoes are planted in separate wells, in which a little water is poured before. The recommended planting scheme for tomatoes is 50 x 40 cm. 
After what crops is best planted
Tomatoes are well grown on light soils with slightly acidic or completely neutral reaction. The optimum acidity of the soil for growing tomatoes "Novice" is 6.0-6.7. It is recommended to plant tomatoes after crops such as cucumbers, onions, potatoes, zucchini, carrots, pumpkin; it is undesirable to plant tomatoes on the beds on which eggplant, pepper, physalis or the same tomatoes grew in the previous year.
Caring for tomatoes in the process of growing
For any plant, if you want to get a generous harvest, you need to take care: water, feed and loosen the soil, weed and weed.
Watering and feeding the soil
Like any other varieties, the Novice tomato needs watering and fertilizing with mineral and organic fertilizers. He is thermophilic, loves moisture and sunlight. The plant suffers from a lack of moisture, but an excess of moisture causes him harm, especially if it is cold outside. In dry and hot weather, watering tomatoes should be every two to three days, and best of all in the evening. In the evening you can also spray plants. Watering is very important in the early days of fruit ripening and formation of ovaries.
Important! If the plants do not have enough moisture, then decaying ovary and flowers will indicate this.Overdoing with mineral fertilizers should not be enough to ash and ground egg shells, which are scattered around the bushes of plants and poured abundantly with water. Tomatoes are also watered with a solution of chicken manure. To stimulate flowering plants are sprayed with an aqueous solution of boric acid (2 g per 10 liters of water). Fertilizing mineral and organic fertilizers in the process of care must be alternated.
Weeding and loosening the soil
In the process of growing tomatoes it is impossible to do without weeding the beds, removing weeds, and loosening the soil. The soil under the plants should always be loose. At least once every two weeks, and even better - after each watering is recommended to loosen the rows. In the first two or three weeks after planting, seedlings are loosened to a depth of 10-12 cm, and then to a depth of 5-8 cm, in order not to damage the roots. Loosening is carried out in conjunction with weeding.
Tomato bushes garter
Tie up the bushes of tomatoes, each separately on the stakes, or to build a trellis. Garter supports are located on the west or north side. The distance from the support to the bush should be somewhere around 10 cm. Tie the plants with rags, cut into strips, or with a soft rope, while the stem cannot be tightly grasped.
Terms of ripening and fruit picking
This variety belongs to the early ripening. On average, tomatoes "Novice" ripen from 110 to 125 days since the first shoots. And if you count the time from the time of planting seedlings in the ground, the ripening time will come in two months.
Yield of Tomatoes "Novice"
6–7 bushes are planted per square meter (with a layout of 50 x 40 cm). On average, from one bush you can get about 2-2.2 kg of tomatoes. It is possible to collect from 12 to 15 kg of high-quality, resistant to over-ripening and cracking fruits from one square meter of soil.
Did you know? Tomatoes were considered inedible, even poisonous for a very long time, and European gardeners grew them as an exotic ornamental plant. And only after in 1822, Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a public bucket of tomatoes on the steps of the courthouse in the city of Salem, the tomato began to quickly gain popularity.Having stopped the choice on this grade of a tomato, you by all means will be satisfied, the Novice differs in the universality, high productivity, excellent tastes and a trade dress.
