Tasty sun in your garden - tomato "Yellow Ball": description of the variety, recommendations for growing

Gardeners who do not have greenhouses are limited in the choice of tomatoes. They are suitable enough undemanding varieties that can put up with heat and cooling.

A promising option - the tomato "Yellow Ball", which can be grown in open ground or under film. It pleases with tasty and beautiful fruits, from a bush it is possible to collect 3 kg of juicy tomatoes.

Tomato "Yellow Ball": description of the variety

The variety of the Russian selection is intended for cultivation in various regions, except northern. Suitable for open ground, film greenhouses and unheated greenhouses. Yellow Ball - Middle Early Indeterminant Grade. The height of the bush - more than 2 m, requires tying to strong stakes or trellis.

Bushes form a copious leafy mass and need to be formed. On the branch formed by 6-8 ovaries. From one bush can be removed 2.5-3 kg of tomatoes, which ripen gradually, throughout the summer.

The tomato variety “Golden ball” is also known, the description of the characteristics of which is absolutely the same with the variety “Yellow ball”. Therefore, we will consider them as one variety.

Among the main advantages of the variety:

• good yield;
• tasty, juicy and beautiful fruits suitable for salads and canning;
• undemanding variety, possible cultivation in the open field or under the film.

Among the shortcomings of the variety are the susceptibility to fungal and viral diseases (mosaic, fusarium) and the need to pinch adult bushes.

You can compare the yield of a variety with others in the table below:

Specifications

Fruits are round, smooth, with a brilliant dense skin. The color of ripe tomatoes is rich yellow. The size is average, tomatoes reach a weight of 150-160 g. The flesh is juicy, sugar, pleasant to taste. Harvest well stored, suitable for transportation. Fruits collected in the technological ripeness phase successfully ripen at home.

Compare the weight of the fruit with other varieties can be in the table below:

Juicy fleshy tomatoes are suitable for cooking salads, soups, hot dishes. From fruits it turns out an excellent thick juice with a pleasant sour-sweet taste.

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Features of growing

Like other mid-early varieties, the Yellow Ball is planted on seedlings in the first half of March. Plants love light and fertile soil from a mixture of garden land and peat. Potash fertilizers, superphosphate and wood ash are added to the soil mixture. For safety, the soil can be calcined or treated with an aqueous solution of potassium permanganate. For better pecking, seeds are soaked for 12 hours in a growth promoter.

After unfolding 1 or 2 of these leaves, seedlings dive into separate pots. For successful development, young plants require moderate watering and bright sunlight.. In cloudy weather, seedlings are illuminated with electric lamps. After picking, fertilizing with complex or mineral fertilizers is recommended. Another feeding is carried out before planting in the ground.

Before planting, the soil is well loosened, superphosphate and wood ash are placed in each well (no more than 1 tbsp. Spoons). High and powerful bushes are planted without thickening, at a distance of about 60 cm from each other. Planted seedlings immediately tied to the supports. The soil between the bushes is mulched with peat, humus or straw.

Watering moderate, warm settled water. During the season you need to feed the plants with an aqueous solution of complex mineral fertilizers or ammonium nitrate, diluted in water. Adult plants stepchild, removing all lateral shoots and lower leaves on the stem.

Diseases and pests

The variety is subject to some typical diseases of the nightshade.for example, fusarium wilt and mosaic. For the prevention of soil recommended to ignite or shed with an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide.

Planted plants should be regularly sprayed with copper-containing preparations, effectively resisting viruses and fungi. Processing and pale-pink solution of potassium permanganate is also possible. Affected leaves must be immediately torn off and burned.

Learn more about the most common tomato diseases in greenhouses here. We will also tell you about ways to deal with them.

On our site you will find reliable information about such misfortunes as Alternaria, Fusarium, Verticillis, Phytophlorosis and ways to protect against Phytophthora.

From pests tomatoes will save the soil mulching and regular inspection of plantings. Colorado beetles and slugs are cleaned with their hands; washing the stalks and leaves with an aqueous solution of soap will help get rid of the aphids.

"Yellow Ball" - an interesting and easy-to-care variety, which can be grown by both experienced and novice gardeners. The most important thing is to protect plants from diseases and remove lateral shoots in time. The reward for the work will be a great harvest.

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