What is the care of tomatoes in the greenhouse?

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

All gardeners should know that caring for tomatoes in a greenhouse is fundamentally different from caring for them outdoors. What is it connected with? Firstly, a microclimate is formed in the greenhouse, which favorably affects the plants, but at the same time contributes to the development of diseases and the appearance of pests. Secondly, to create this same microclimate, you need to make a lot of effort (more than in the garden).

How to start caring for tomatoes in a greenhouse?

The first step is to prepare the greenhouse itself and the soil in it. The room must be equipped, that is, have windows, doors, lighting fixtures and other necessary devices. Peat, humus, and if it is clayey, then straw is introduced into the soil from autumn. In the spring, when digging up the ground, do not forget to add fertilizer and ash, and after all the preparatory procedures, pour hot potassium permanganate solution (for disinfection). Now the greenhouse is ready for planting tomatoes. caring for themconsists of many activities, but the main ones are:

• watering;
• feeding;
• stepchildren.

In addition, tomatoes need to provide the right lighting, temperature, and prevent diseases and pests.

Irrigation

When you have transplanted seedlings, water them immediately with warm water. In the future, you need to be more careful with water. Abundant watering of tomatoes in the greenhouse begins only when warm days are established and fruit ovaries appear. Before that, it is enough to moisten the soil once every two weeks, or even less often. It all depends on what the weather is outside the greenhouse. As a rule, when seedlings are planted (this is around the beginning of May), it is cold outside, so the plants have enough moisture that they received after transplantation, and they can get a lack of it from the resulting morning dew. As soon as the first fruits began to appear, then it is already possible to increase watering by using about 10 liters per square meter. You need to pour strictly under the root.

Staging

Caring for tomatoes in a greenhouse also consists of stepsoning. To get an early harvest, you need to grow tomatoes in one stem. To do this, pinch the top of the stem, while no more than 8 brushes should remain on one stem. The plant itself must be tied to a trellis. Pasynkovanie carried out in the morning. This should be done periodically, that is, as the processes grow back.

Feeding

In the greenhouse you need to providenutrients your tomatoes - planting and caring for them involve reusable top dressing at all stages of growth. As soon as the seedlings take root, you can start fertilizing. To do this, use liquid products containing phosphorus and potassium. They are applied to the soil before the harvest. During the fruiting period, nitrogen is also added to these fertilizers. The amount of top dressing depends on the condition of the soil. Therefore, before planting, it would not hurt to study its composition, especially if you are growing plants on it for the first time. If a tomato crop has been harvested on this land for more than one year, then top dressing is carried out according to the old scheme.

Tips & Tricks

1. If your greenhouse is fully equipped with a heating and lighting system, then planting tomatoes can be carried out as early as early April, but if it is heated only by sunlight, then not earlier than May.

2. After pinching, you need to help the plants pollinate, for this, shake them early in the morning, if they are tied to a wire, then just shake it.

3. If the greenhouse is not heated, it is recommended to dilute the fertilizer in warm water.

4. The lower leaves are advised to be removed, since they still do not take part in the development of the plant (this should be done gradually, removing 2-3 leaves per week).

5. Spray boric acid on the leaves to keep them from curling.

6. In order to avoid fungal and other diseases, water the tomatoes abundantly with potassium permanganate.

6 Carbon dioxide is good for plants, so the dry ice carbonation method is used.

In these simplemanipulations is the care of tomatoes in the greenhouse. With a little effort and patience, you will soon have delicious tomatoes on your table.