Planting a tomato in a greenhouse: little tricks

Tomatoes are honored residents of our garden plots. Their fruits are tasty and healthy: one standard fruit provides a person's daily need for vitamins, both fresh and canned.

Content:

• What are tomatoes good for?
• Rules for planting tomatoes in a greenhouse
• Little tricks of planting tomatoes

What are tomatoes good for?

The benefits of tomatoes for the body are undeniable. They are recommended for people on a diet - in salads, in soups, and tomatoes are also necessary for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, heart disease, liver disease. This vegetable is an excellent antioxidant and even an antidepressant due to the microelements it contains. Even with heat treatment, this culture does not lose its beneficial properties.

In addition to the benefits, it is also an aesthetically pleasing sight. Tomatoes look beautiful on the garden plot, although planting a tomato in a greenhouse does not allow the guests of the plot to admire the blooming tomatoes that herald a rich harvest, or "lights" ripening on the vine.

Yes, tomatoes are grown outdoors, but only those who live in warm regions of our country are so lucky. The rest, more northern residents, have to grow tomatoes in a greenhouse in order to get a harvest of this vegetable, but it should be noted that the taste is somewhat worse in greenhouse tomatoes. How to properly plant tomatoes in a greenhouse?

There are basic rules and little tricks for this.

Rules for planting tomatoes in a greenhouse

It is worth adhering to the following rules:

• The soil for greenhouse tomatoes must be prepared in advance. Loosen, apply organic fertilizers, check the acidity of the soil (it should be neutral). You cannot apply manure immediately before planting tomatoes, they will die!
• Choose hybrid for greenhouse cultivation tomato varieties... They are more resistant to local temperatures and conditions.
• Treat the seedlings with a solution of potassium permanganate at the rate of 1 gram of potassium permanganate per 10 liters of water.
• It is better to fertilize the soil with peat, sawdust, spruce.
• It is recommended not to plant tomatoes near potatoes! Tomatoes are best planted in the soil after harvesting legumes, onions, carrots.
• It is very important to correctly position the greenhouse. The correct location is from east to west, then the greenhouse will warm up enough during the day.
• Do not plant cucumbers and tomatoes in the same greenhouse, because there is a possibility of diseases, and besides, these crops have different requirements for light and moisture.
• The dates for planting tomatoes in the greenhouse are scheduled for April - early May. It is during this period that the daytime sun will warm up the greenhouse enough to maintain the required temperature throughout the night. Better to do this in the evening.

• Before planting, you need to prepare the holes for tomato seedlings... They are made in rows, the distance between which should be about half a meter or a little more. The distance between the holes in one row is optimal to make about 30 centimeters. Remember that the planting should never be dense. Naturally, it is best to arrange the holes in rows in a checkerboard pattern.
• The greenhouse must be treated against fungus, mold, pests. To do this, a few days before planting tomatoes, you can use prophylactic agents purchased in specialized stores or recall folk recipes for such processing.
• Be sure to ventilate the greenhouse, especially during flowering, so that there is no condensation on the film - to facilitate the process of pollination of tomato flowers. Initially, it is desirable to have vents in the greenhouse.
• Build greenhouse stands in a sunnier place, darkening is undesirable, because tomatoes are very fond of the sun - it is not for nothing that the Italians call this vegetable "golden apple".
• It is worth changing the place of the greenhouse every year, you cannot plant tomatoes from year to year in one place, they can get sick with late blight because of this. Or it is worth replacing the soil and treating it with copper sulfate.
• Don't forget about timely feeding (the first time on the 20th day after planting) and the garter of the seedlings.

Little tricks of planting tomatoes

And here are the little tricks. In order for the tomato to gain more strength, the seedlings are planted by "laying" the stem by 5-7 centimeters in the hole and covering it with earth. You can feed the seedling with mineral fertilizer, pouring it directly into the hole.

Or, when planting tomatoes, and also peppers, put one small, such as capelin, fresh fish in each hole. It will provide more essential substances than any chemistry.

There is one more feature: the first days after planting tomatoes to water not worth it, they have already received enough moisture to set the fruit. Water the planted tomato bushes at the root. Do not overuse watering. It is optimal to do this once a week.

In the greenhouse, place dark stones between the beds to create a balance of heat. At the time of fruit ripening, it is worth cutting off the lower leaves on the stem, it is better to do this during the day in sunny weather.

Have a nice harvest and good luck!