How to feed tomatoes: useful tips

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For every person it is obvious that not always, even with the maximum effort expended, it is possible to get a decent harvest. It's not about the number and total weight of fruits, although this is also an extremely important indicator. But you can collect a mountain of vegetables, the taste of which will not be up to par. Why does it depend? There are no trifles in growing vegetables, everything is important here: the timing of planting seedlings in the ground or a greenhouse, the irrigation schedule, the correct pinching. But nothing affects the taste of fruits like fertilizers. Therefore, in this article we will talk about how to feed tomatoes in the greenhouse and in the open field.

The scheme for feeding tomatoes in greenhouse conditions and in open ground conditions is almost the same, the only difference is that there is no single application of fertilizers immediately after planting seedlings.

General information

Some inexperienced gardeners ask themselves the question: "Why invent how to feed tomatoes for growth?" A certain part of people have a well-formed opinion: fertilizer is bad. For such an assertion, there arereasons: if there is a lot of fertilizers, they not only have a bad effect on plants, but are also deposited in fruits, making them tasteless, inedible or unsafe for human he alth. Therefore, it is extremely important to adhere to the recommended concentration.

However, you still have to think about how to feed the tomatoes. Indeed, in order to form one centner of tomatoes, the plant must process about 0.25 kg of nitrogen, 0.15 kg of phosphorus and up to half a kilogram of potassium.

Foliar applications

When the question arises of what to feed tomatoes, most people choose only root top dressing. However, there is a way to bring in all the useful substances, bypassing the root system. By analogy with humans, it looks like this: drugs introduced through the stomach (into the soil) act more slowly than those that enter the body through the blood (absorbed from the surface of the leaves).

Foliar top dressing is carried out with special preparations, such as "Master" or "Plantafol", conventional mineral or organic mixtures are not suitable for this. Such top dressing is very convenient to combine with spraying from various pests and diseases.

How to feed tomatoes: the classic fertilizer application scheme

The fertilization schedule is made individually for each specific case, however, you must follow a few general rules:

- tomatoes fertilize 4-5 times per season;

- timely watering is very important: useful substances should not lie dead in dry soil, but flow toplants along with water;

- abundance of moisture leads to leaching of fertilizers, therefore, in rainy summers or on poor soils, the amount of top dressing is doubled, but the amount of applied substances is reduced by about a third;

- root top dressing can be carried out both with special mineral mixtures and independently made from potassium permanganate, eggshell crumbs, wood ash, humus, chicken manure, etc.

So, you have received complete information about how to feed tomatoes. It remains only to put this knowledge into practice and grow a rich, tasty and he althy crop.