Recommendations and advice
Everyone dreams of growing a good crop, but unfortunately, great tomatoes do not grow on their own.
But sometimes questions arise: "Where to buy quality seeds or seedlings, how to care and grow a good harvest?"
Recommendations and tips to growing tomatoes will help you grow a healthy and abundant crop.
Picking seedlings peppers
Picking tomato seedlings
Vodka to help tomatoes
Greenhouse overview
Spring processing of greenhouses
Greenhouse preparation before planting tomatoes
Phytophthora, how to deal with it
Formation of tomato bushes
Formation of cucumbers
Planting tomato seeds before winter
Why you need to trim the leaves of tomatoes
To grow tomatoes by leaps and bounds
Tomato seedling garter
Secrets of growing tomatoes
Tomato garter 2
Secrets of growing tomatoes during flowering
Secrets of growing tomatoes - answers to questions
Flower formation in tomatoes - empty flowers and full flowers
The secrets of growing tomatoes - an overview of greenhouses
Secrets of Growing Tomatoes - An Overview of Greenhouses (Part II)
Successful tomato experiment
The experiment was successful (part 2)
The experiment was successful (part 3)
The experiment was successful (part 4)
Leaves and pruning
What to do if there is not enough potassium in tomatoes
Cladosporiosis and its control
How to stop phytophthora
About double flower and greenhouse overview
Why you need to trim the leaves of tomatoes
PLANTING AND CARE OF SEEDLINGS
It is best to sow tomatoes in boxes with a sod-humus mixture. You can add some mineral fertilizers. Place the boxes in the warmest room, water the ground before planting the seeds. Divide the entire space into beds, alternate them every five centimeters. Then, with a distance of one centimeter, spread the seeds into boxes. Cover the boxes with plastic wrap, ensure the temperature in the room is around 25 degrees Celsius.
Sprouts will appear within 7-10 days. Now the film can be removed, and the boxes put in the most illuminated place. Tomato seedlings should be watered sparingly. They perceive morning watering very well, especially on sunny days.
Transplantation of seedlings is necessary two weeks after the appearance of sunrises. We must try to transplant them into separate pots with a diameter of 12 cm and try not to damage the root system during transplantation.
Pour with warm water and cover from the sun for several days. When growing tomato seedlings, it is very important to provide the plant with plenty of light and plenty of space. If you manage to create such conditions at home, then you can sow seeds even in January. But here it is important to have a well-heated greenhouse with enough light to transplant seedlings from the windowsill in time.
WHAT IS A DIVE
Strictly speaking, picking, or diving, is the removal of the final part of the tap root from seedlings in order to stimulate the branching of the root system. By tradition, this word refers to any planting of plants from common dishes into individual containers. A pointed peg is used for picking (in French - pique).
The rejection of weak, thin or yellowed seedlings is mandatory, therefore, when diving plants, immediately discard those that seem low-grade to you. In order not to damage the root system during picking, it is necessary to use a special spatula, pencil, stick. Before picking, the plants must be watered abundantly and left for 20-30 minutes so that the soil becomes softer and more pliable, then thin stems and roots will separate more easily and freely.
How to dive seedlings:
- separate the seedling with a spatula, holding it by the cotyledon leaves, it is not recommended to hold it by the leg of the plant, since the fragile stem easily breaks at the touch of hands;
- remove the plant from the soil, carefully cutting off the central rhizome (it is better to do this with nail scissors), leaving only 2/3 of the entire rhizome;
- make a small depression in the pot where the plant will be transplanted, deepen it to the point of growth (small compaction above the rhizome) or 0.5 cm deeper;
- sprinkle the seedling with earth, slightly pressing the layer;
- moderately pour plain water at room temperature and put in a darkened room for 2-3 days.
HELPS IN THE GARDEN
ZelenkaI always have it in my garden apron pocket. If you have to cut a thin branch near a bush, then it is easier to grease the cut with brilliant green than to run after a garden pitch. With brilliant green I lubricate the places of cuts and strippings on root tubers and bulbs. And if the pumpkin skin is hurt, you also need brilliant green, the wound will quickly heal and there will be no problems with storage.
It is clear thatpotassium permanganatealways needed, it is the most affordable and convenient seed and bulb treater. With a solution of potassium permanganate (2 teaspoons per 10 liters of water), I prophylactically spray strawberries after flowering against gray rot. In a dark pink solution, I bathe potatoes before planting to ward off wireworms, and seed potatoes before storing.
Boric acidvery necessary in the country economy. If the fruits of zucchini or zucchini rot, if the tomatoes in the greenhouse are stressed by the heat, if the fruits of pepper and eggplant do not set, if there are few ovaries on cucumbers, make a solution of boric acid and spray the plants. The recipe is as follows: thoroughly mix 2 g of boric acid in 500 ml of hot water and add up to 10 liters of water heated in the sun.
Glucose and vitamin B1I add especially valuable indoor and tub plants to fertilizer irrigation. For 5 liters you need 5 ml of glucose and 1 ml of vitamin B1. 5-6 waterings with an interval of 2 weeks and your plants will thank you with powerful growth and abundant flowering.
Laundry soap(“Soviet” 72%) is also needed to add to infusions and decoctions for sticking. I water green vegetables and flower seedlings with a solution of soap if they have a lot of aphids (150 g per 10 liters of water). I also use it to wash flower pots and all kinds of tools. Moreover, such soapy water can be safely used for watering trees and shrubs.