Growing up in the north is not easy. But you can achieve productivity and get abundant, tasty tomatoes with Northern Beauty. For anyone who has plots in temperate latitudes, Siberia, or the Urals, this variety will be a great find.
| Height | Landing location | Ripening time | Fruit color | Fruit size | Origin | Fruit shape |
| Medium height | Greenhouse, Open ground | Mid-season | Reds | Average | Variety | Plum-shaped or oval |
Description and characteristics of the variety
Tomato Northern Beauty is an indeterminate medium-growing variety. Notable for its taste and excellent product characteristics. Description of bushes:
- trunk height 1.5-1.6 m;
- shoots are semi-spreading;
- 5-6 tomatoes on the bunches;
- fruitful clusters 7-8.
Fruiting begins in the middle period - 118-120 days from germination.
Features of tomatoes:
- average weight 60-120 g;
- bright pink color;
- elongated shape;
- The pulp is fleshy, sugary.
The taste is a harmonious combination of sweetness and sourness. Fresh tomatoes are an excellent solution for salads. The fruits also make delicious canned food, pickles, and tomato products.
Features of cultivation and care
In order for all the characteristics to manifest itself in practice, planting and subsequent manipulations must be carried out according to the established plan. To obtain seedlings, seeds are sown in seedling boxes 50–55 days before planting in the garden. To speed up seed germination, cover the container with plastic film or glass.
Until the sprouts appear, the cover is periodically removed. If you keep the crops covered, growing delicious tomatoes will be a disaster: the soil will become moldy and the seeds will not germinate.
Seeds are sown in furrows to a depth of 1 cm. After germination, excess plants are removed or planted in separate cups after the formation of 2-3 true leaves. Young plants are planted in a permanent place after the formation of 5–6 true leaves. Plant seedlings in cloudy weather or in the evening.
According to the description of the variety, the height of the bushes is about 1.5 meters. Plants of such large growth are usually tied to supports. Being in an upright position, the plant gets sick less often, since the fruits do not come into contact with the soil, and the bushes are well lit and ventilated. In addition, thanks to the correct distribution of nutrients, formed bushes bear fruit better than their creeping, unkempt counterparts.
Caring for tomatoes completely coincides with the generally accepted care for all types of vegetable crops. The bushes are regularly watered and fed with organic fertilizers.
Have you grown a Northern Beauty tomato? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this variety? Your opinion will help those who still have doubts make their choice, because reviews based on life experience are much more important than stereotyped characteristics.
Product description
The Blue Charm tomato is a magnificent beauty, one of the most unique varieties!
When exposed to sunlight, the fruits take on a purple-blue hue thanks to the plant pigment anthocyanin (as in blueberries), which is a powerful and beneficial antioxidant. Unripe fruits are green with purple shoulders. When the tomato becomes soft to the touch, the skin turns deep pink, and the shoulders turn dark blue, it’s time to harvest.
The fruits are very beautiful, easy to keep, can be stored for a long time, and the taste even improves during storage. The pulp is dense, juicy, aromatic, sweet, even when ripened. Very pleasant taste! Ideal for sandwiches, salads and slicing.
The variety is productive, disease-resistant, the fruits are resistant to cracking, and hang on the bush for a long time until you are ready to pick them. It is in great demand in the market.
Recently, interest in tomatoes with fruits of unusual blue-violet flowers has begun to grow. This is due not only to the exotic appearance of the plants, but also to the composition of these vegetables. Anthocyanins give them their blue color, for which blueberries are so highly valued. Anthocyanins have high antioxidant properties, help the body fight infections, stress, tumors, and strengthen the immune system. Let's talk about one of these varieties - the Blue Beauty tomato, which is translated into Russian as Blue Charm or Blue Beauty.
Harvesting and application
The Princess is harvested immediately after the first ripe tomatoes appear. You can tell when vegetables are ready to harvest by their characteristic rich red color. Tomatoes are collected so as not to damage the stalk. Over-ripening of tomatoes is undesirable, otherwise it will have a bad effect on the overall yield.
Tomato is rich in amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Positively affects the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, tomato is a natural antioxidant.
Tomatoes are used in the preparation of many dishes: pasta, tomato juice, vegetable stew, pizza. Vegetables go well with other foods - meat, poultry or fish.
Tall tomato hybrids
"Date yellow" F1
Tomato F1 “Yellow Date” - these tomatoes are worthy competitors of southern berries! Yellow fruits weighing 20 g, each with its shape and sweetness very similar to dates. Semi-determinate, mid-late variety. The plant has few leaves, a simple raceme, contains 6-8 fruits.
Growing conditions: sowing seedlings, seed placement depth 1-2 cm. Optimal germination temperature 22-25°C. Seedlings dive in the phase of the first true leaf after abundant watering. In May, seedlings are planted in captive greenhouses, shelters and greenhouses, and in early June - in open ground.
Care: watering as needed (it is especially important to water the tomato before flowering, with the appearance of ovaries and at the beginning of fruit ripening), weeding, loosening, fertilizing. MO, g
Shchelkovo, st. Zavodskaya, 15
Moscow Region, Shchelkovo, st. Zavodskaya, 15
Opinion: the hybrid is very productive and unusually sweet!
Results of 2014: due to a very cold spring, the fruits were small and not as sweet as in 2013.
The best varieties of tomatoes
There are must-have varieties that I always plant every year. I like them not only for their taste and unpretentiousness, but also for the way they look on the bush. I’ll paraphrase one bearded joke: “I don’t really like tomatoes... But the process itself...”. I love going into the greenhouse and admiring the tomato plantations. And I don’t hesitate to show off my particularly spectacular huge tomatoes to my neighbors, and then post photos on the forum. It’s a shame to hide it – we all love it!
The following varieties are among the favorites also because they do not need to be fanatically cultivated and shaped. And they will always give a harvest: small, large, and a lot, depending on the variety and what I grow them for - for salads, for preparations, or, the smallest and sweetest ones, so that “like seeds, they click.” .
The “Rocket” variety is suitable for both greenhouses and open ground. The fruits are identical in shape and sweet. We love to eat them by the handful. Look good in blanks. The bush requires garter, despite the fact that the package says the opposite. This is because a lot of fruits grow, and the bush bends from the weight. Its height in open ground is about 40 cm, and in a greenhouse it can reach up to 60 cm. This is a mid-season variety; it does not need to be pinched.
Rice. 1. “Rocket” matures smoothly and is well stored in both technical and biological maturity.
Rice. 2. There is almost no need to pin the “Big Man” wrist.
Rice. 3. It ripens in batches, gradually, which is very convenient.
Among the vigorous-growing tomatoes with large fruits, I singled out the “Red Giant” variety. This amateur variety was bred by simple gardeners. Despite the fact that it grows a lot of leaves, it does not have to be pruned too often. The fruits on the lower tiers are the largest. If I had not been lazy and plucked out the inflorescences, leaving no more than 3-4 in the brush, the fruits would have been even larger. It is fleshy inside and contains few seeds.
Rice. 4. “Red Giant” in mid-July.
Rice. 5. You can take your own seeds, but the fruit must ripen on the bush and come from the second cluster from the bottom.
Rice. 6. The fruits are slightly ribbed, quite transportable, there is never a yellow-pink top from unbalanced care, as in pink-fruited varieties.
Rice. 7. Both the side of the stalk and the reverse side always have a marketable appearance.
Rice. 8. The only drawback of the “Red Giant” is that the largest fruits require a garter.
However, almost all large-fruited tomatoes require additional tying of the brushes. Except for my next favorite, Bull's Heart. I also always grow it year after year, as my grandmother advised me. “He will never let you down!” - she said, and every year I am convinced of this. Even if I took my own seeds and not factory ones, “Bull’s Heart” invariably bears fruit and does not require pinching at all, although it is vigorous. Somehow I didn’t have enough space in the greenhouse, and one bush of “Bull’s Heart” grew on the street without shelter. It grew to 1 m instead of 140-150 cm in the greenhouse, but still pleased me.
Rice. 9. The hands grow in such a way that they do not need to be additionally secured with a garter to prevent them from falling.
Rice. 10. There is one feature of the “Bull’s Heart” - a predisposition to the formation of such gnarled fruits.
Therefore, if you see a bud or flower that is too large, feel free to cut it with scissors, it will still take a long time to ripen, even though it will be large, the skin will be hard and gray, you cannot take seeds from it.
Rice. 11. But the bulk of the “Bull’s Heart” fruits are very beautiful, tasty and fleshy. By the way, this variety comes in both orange and red.
