A welcome guest at a country site is a Belle F1 tomato: description and photo of a variety.

Tasty early ripe hybrids are a real find for the gardener. Among them stands out a variety of tomato “Belle F1” - elegant, undemanding to care, quite fruitful. Smooth, neat fruits are well stored and have a pleasant, balanced taste.

In more detail about a grade you can learn from our article. Read the full description of the variety in it, get acquainted with the characteristics and characteristics of cultivation, learn about the propensity to damage by pests and immunity to diseases.

Tomato "Belle F1": description of the variety

"Belle F1" - early ripe high-yielding hybrid. Indeterminate shrub, up to 150 cm tall, moderately leafy. The leaf is simple, medium-sized, dark green.

The fruits ripen in long clusters of 6-8 pieces. Maturation lasts throughout the season. The yield is very good, from 1 square. meters of planting can be removed at least 15 kg of selected tomatoes.

Fruits are medium in size, weighing 120-200 g. The shape is flat-rounded, with slight ribbing at the stem. In the process of ripening, the tomatoes change color from light green to dark red. The skin is thin, glossy, the flesh is juicy, tender, fleshy, with a large number of seed chambers. The taste is bright, sweet with a slight sourness.

Origin and Application

The variety of tomato "Belle F1" bred by Dutch breeders, zoned for all regions of Russia. It is recommended to grow tomatoes in open beds or under film. Harvested tomatoes are well stored, transportation is possible.. Smooth, beautiful fruits are suitable for sale.

Tomatoes are of the salad type, they are tasty fresh, suitable for preparing snacks, soups, hot dishes, pastes and mashed potatoes. Ripe tomatoes make a delicious juice, they are good in salted or pickled form.

A photo

Visually familiar with the variety of tomatoes "Belle F1" can be in the photo below:

Advantages and disadvantages

Among the main advantages of the variety:

• early fruit ripening;
• great taste;
• good yield;
• shade tolerance;
• resistance to major diseases.

The disadvantages include the need to form a bush. High plants need reliable support. It will not be possible to collect seeds in our own beds; seeds from tomatoes do not inherit the characteristics of the mother plant.

Features of growing

Tomatoes variety "Belle F1" grown seedlings or seedless way. Seeds do not need to be processed, they pass all stimulating and disinfecting procedures before they are sold.

The soil for seedlings is made up of a mixture of garden soil with humus or peat. In the seedling method, the seeds are sown in containers with a depth of 1.5-2 cm, sprinkled with peat and placed in heat. After the emergence of seedlings, the film is removed, the seedlings are exposed to the light and poured with warm water.

When the first real leaflets unfold on the plants, a picking is carried out, the tomatoes are fed with a liquid complex fertilizer. Transplantation in the ground or greenhouse begins in the second half of May. With the non-seedling method, seeds are sown immediately on the beds, fertilized with a generous portion of humus.

Landings are sprayed with water and covered with foil. The tomatoes grown in this way are distinguished by strong immunity. After the emergence of seedlings planting thin out.

Young bushes are placed at a distance of 40-50 cm from each other, the row spacing is from 60 cm. Watering the plants should be moderate, with warm soft water. Every 2 weeks the plants are fed with complex fertilizer or organic. Tall bushes are tied to stakes or trellis. All stepchildren above 2 brushes are removed, lower leaves and deformed flowers are also best removed.

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Diseases and pests

Tomato variety “Belle F1” is not too susceptible to the main diseases: tobacco mosaic, verticillosis, fusarium. Early ripening protects fruits from late blight epidemic.

For the prevention of fungal diseases, spraying young plants with a weak solution of potassium permanganate or phytosporin is recommended. Proper planting, mulching, or frequent loosening of the soil with timely weed control will help protect the planting from apical or root rot.

Insect pests often spoil the fresh greens of tomatoes. To get rid of them will help spraying plantings of infusions of herbs: celandine, yarrow, chamomile. You can fight with bare slugs using ammonia, the easiest way to wash off aphids with warm soapy water.

Belle F1 is an interesting and easy-to-grow tomato that forgives small mistakes in agricultural technology. High yield, endurance and low susceptibility to diseases makes him a welcome guest at any backyard.

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