Tips and tricks for gardeners: how to grow tomatoes correctly

Everyone knows that tomatoes are extremely good for our health and beauty. Tomatoes contain a truly huge number of useful properties. The Incas and Aztecs were the first to be convinced of the excellent qualities of tomatoes, because they raised them almost to the rank of sacred. Many years later, tomatoes spread throughout the world, only increasing their qualities.

Tomatoes are rich in vitamins B, C, K, PP and others. The brighter the color of the tomato, the more vitamins they contain, the more useful they will be. In addition, tomatoes perfectly restore the water-salt balance of the human body, so tomato juice is good to drink. Tomatoes contain zinc, which is good for the skin. It will help relieve inflammation, accelerate the regeneration of damaged cells, and strengthen hair. Potassium helps the heart work, and iron will reduce the risk of anemia.

Content:

• How to sow a tomato and care for seedlings
• How to plant seedlings in a permanent place
• How to form tomato plants
• How to care for tomatoes in the beds

How to sow tomatoes and care for seedlings

There are varieties that are intended immediately for growing in the open field. They are sown without picking in nutritious pots. This can be explained by the fact that when transplanting in a pot, small roots very often break off, and an infection can get into the wounds, which is undesirable, because tomato is not resistant to viral diseases, for example, to tobacco mosaic.

Secrets of sowing tomato seeds:

• From March 1 to the end of the month, sowing is carried out in small cups, which must be filled with soil mixture.
• Then they need to be poured with a warm solution of liquid sodium humate (one tablespoon) and water (10 l).
• After that, make two small indentations in the ground in each glass and place one seed in them. This type of planting is suitable for undersized varieties for open soil.
• Place the pots in a warm, bright place.
• Watch the seedlings, they will appear about a week after sowing.
• After the sprouts appear, rearrange the pots on a sunny, bright windowsill, the temperature should be about fourteen degrees.
• When you lower the temperature, make sure that the seedlings are not caught in a draft. The coolness of the day will help the roots develop and prevent over-stretching of the seedlings.
• At the next stage of growth, the temperature should be twenty during the day and sixteen degrees at night.
• After five days, the weakest plant is removed from the seedlings, leaving one strong one in the pot.

Seedlings grow for about fifty days and must be taken care of very carefully. At the beginning of growth, you need to pour half a glass of water into each glass, and after the formation of four leaves - a glass.

Seedlings are fed every ten or twelve days. days. The first time with a solution of nitrophosphate, the second time - with diluted fertilizer "Signor Tomato", the third time - with a tincture of superphosphate.

Temper the plant constantly by lowering the temperature - this is very important.

If the temperature is at least ten degrees, then take the seedlings out to the balcony or veranda, or leave them near open windows.For the first couple of days, leave the plant in the shade; you need to gradually accustom the seedlings to the sun. If the direct rays of the sun fall on the seedlings in the first days, burns will appear, and the seedlings will become unsuitable for growing.

Watch out for that to keep the soil moist, and not dry, otherwise the leaves will turn yellow and fade. Before planting in the ground, the plant should become strong, at least nine leaves should appear.

How to plant seedlings in a permanent place

A sunny, windless place will be the best option for planting tomatoes. Low and damp areas will create extremely unfavorable conditions for the root system. An excellent place will be the place where legumes or greens used to grow, potatoes and tomatoes are undesirable. There is a risk of infection of new plants with late blight. Loamy soils with the addition of organic matter and mineral fertilizers are best suited.

Treat the ridges where you will plant the plants:

• Hot solution of copper sulfate or copper chloride. You will need one spoon per 10 liters.
• Then I use fertilizers, old sawdust, humus and peat.
• After that, the ridge is dug up, watered with warm water, recesses are created, watered with "Zaslon".

The first and second decades of May are the time for planting. Pick a cloudy day and get down to business in the morning. If the sun is shining, you need to plant in the afternoon. Plants must be fresh, the slightest signs of harvest may prevent an early harvest.

First, the seedlings are planted strictly vertically, the soil does not cover the stem, and then on the fifteenth day the plant is spud.

If the plant is tied to arcs, then it will be better illuminated and ventilated, and this will hurt less. There is no need to water the plants ten days after planting, as they are still taking root.

If frosts are expected at night, then it is better to cover the tomato plants additionally. Until June 5, the seedlings are snatched with a film, after that the film is not removed, but holes are made in it about twelve centimeters in diameter. This film is left for the whole summer. The result is excellent: the plants are not infected with late blight, but they give a wonderful harvest.

How to shape tomato plants

Five fruit clusters are optimal, so the plants are shaped so that they can produce them. With a single-stem form, absolutely all lateral shoots are removed on the main stem, they are formed in the leaf axils. Five fruit clusters are left on the main shoot. Three leaves are left over the latter.

The double-stemmed form is created in this way: a stepson is left growing under the very first fruit cluster.

Four fruit brushes remain on the main stem, and pinch the top. Three fruit brushes remain on the stepson, pinch the top, leaving also three leaves.

The tri-stem shape is created by leaving three or two fruit clusters. In pinched plants and plants with stepchildren, the nutrients help form fruit and increase its size. Thirty leaves is the minimum that should be on the bush.

How to care for tomatoes in the garden

Top dressing of tomatoes:

• The first root feeding is given three weeks after planting.
• The second root dressing is carried out when the second flower cluster begins to bloom.
• The third feeding is carried out during the blooming of the third flower brush.
• The fourth feeding is carried out twelve days after the third.

Top dressing and its composition depend not only on the growth phase of the plant, but also on weather conditions. So, for example, in cloudy or very cloudy weather, it is worth increasing the dose of potassium sulfate. It should be one tablespoon per ten liters of water. When the sun is shining, you need to increase the amount of urea. One tablespoon of urea or Ideal fertilizer per ten liters is required. One square meter needs five liters.

Foliar dressing is spraying plant foliage.

Such dressings are carried out for weak plants and plants that are lagging behind in growth.It is necessary to prepare the following solution: one tablespoon of urea or "Ideal" fertilizer is diluted in ten liters of water.

Tomatoes develop and bear fruit best of all at temperatures from twenty to twenty-five degrees for days and at eighteen or twenty at night.

Watering tomatoes:

• Abundant watering contributes to the excellent condition of the plant.
• Watering on sunny days needed every six days, on cloudy - every eight. It will take up to 20 liters per square meter of land.
• It also depends on the temperature. When you water the garden bed, sprinkle it with a couple of centimeters of sifted compost or humus.

Thanks to this approach, there is no crust on top, moisture remains in the ground and evaporation, which is very harmful to plants, does not occur. Over-watering in cold weather will cause root death. The shedding of flowers can be seen quite often. This is a sign of insufficient soil moisture or low temperature. Sprinkle the tomatoes with the boron solution.

Water gently, because a sharp change in dry period with a wet period leads to cracks in the fruit.

Each watering must be accompanied by loosening of the soil around the plant. Some summer residents do not like to huddle tomatoes, but it is still better to carry out this process if you want to get a good harvest.

More information can be found in the video.