How to care for tomato seedlings: fertilizers, lighting, irrigation schedule and other useful tips.
The dream of any gardener is a beautiful seedlings with thick legs. How to grow such seedlings, than to feed tomato seedlings so that there are thick legs? We reveal simple secrets in this article.
How to feed tomato seedlings so that there are thick legs: useful tips
The easiest way to feed seedlings is the top dressing with nitro or nitroamopho. Selitra It includes nitrogen, when feeding with this fertilizer, plants quickly gain strength and grow. The disadvantage of this method is the possible stretching of plants. Such stretching with a lack of sunlight is especially possible. Nitroamophoska It contains not only nitrogen, but also phosphorus and potassium. This combination is more preferably, plants are less stretched and also quickly gain strength.
Why can tomatoes look like a stunted and frail?Sometimes, despite all the efforts, the seedlings of tomatoes do not please their owners, but only upset. Instead of green plants with thick legs in pots, pale, stretched plants flaunt.
How to feed tomato seedlings? What errors do beginners and not only beginner gardeners make:
- Buy cheap seeds from unverified sellers
- Sow the seeds in pots too early
- Poor land drainage in pots and trays
- They are fond of excessive watering
- Do not provide plants with sufficient lighting
If you recall the proverb: "What goes around comes around"And to understand its true sense, it turns out that from bad seeds, it will never be possible to grow a good crop. You should not orient the seeds on a beautiful picture on a bag.
It is better to find shops where certified seeds are sold. With difficulty, but still you can find good online stores for the sale of seeds. It is difficult to check online stores, many sites deceive customers not only offering payment for ahead, but also sending low-quality goods.
If you planted high -quality seeds, but the seedlings look pale and stretched out - do not rush to panic. After landing in open ground, in good sunny weather, such seedlings can get stronger and give a good harvest. Such a miracle may not happen if the roots of plants are affected by excessive watering, with fungal diseases.
Why is it very important to prevent a fungus in the ground for seedlings? When the fungus damage the roots, there are very few chances for recovery in plants. At the same time, even watering with anti -inflable solutions does not help.
The best way to combat diseases is prevention. Watering seedlings in pots should not only be moderate, but even meager.
If the surface of the soil looks dry, this does not mean that at a depth there is not enough moisture. Therefore, watering should be done only after the land completely dry. It is not scary if the leaves of seedlings even slightly fall from a lack of moisture. Much worse than waterlogged soil. In such Earth, plant roots cannot breathe, and the development of fungi will lead to complete death of plants.
How to feed tomato seedlings so that there are thick legs without resorting to chemistry?
It is believed that feeding plants with organic fertilizers are more safe than feeding with chemical fertilizers. But remember that where organics are introduced into the ground with large doses, you can also get vegetables with an excess of nitrates. If the soil is poor, you can make organic fertilizer in the following ways:
- Fertilizer with overwhelming weeds and top of vegetable plants
- Chicken
- Fertilizer from cow or goat manure
To obtain a good, strong seedlings, you need to fill the glasses with balanced soil.
More good results are obtained if you add the Earth from the garden one to one to a purchased soil mixture. And it is necessary to feed the seedlings of tomatoes with complex fertilizer.
Seedlings on a peat, without adding garden land, can not receive chemical elements necessary for growth.
The seedlings of tomatoes planted in open ground can be fed with fertilizer from infusion on weeds and tops.
How to make such an organic fertilizer:
- Fold the weeds and ups of plants in a large barrel or pan
- Pour water to completely cover the plants
- Mix the contents of the barrel periodically for two weeks
- Strain the resulting solution and add to the water for watering plants. Add this organic fertilizer 1:10
Fertilizer from organics can be made in a simpler way:
- Fold weeds, tops and leaves of trees in a bunch
- In the summer, water this bunch of water and kitchen waste
- In the fall, turn the pile. You will find in it a lot of earthen worms that eating the remains of plants will turn waste into humus
In the spring, this humus can feed the seedlings of tomatoes planted on garden beds. Earth with a dung heap can simply be laid out into the holes near each tomato.
It is very important to plant tomato seedlings so as not to damage the roots.
In no case do not pull the sprouts out of the ground. Get them out of pots for seedlings with an earthen lump.
The harder you plant seedlings, and the less you damage the roots during transplantation, the better your tomatoes will grow.
In fact, with poor soil, it is easier to calculate how much chemical fertilizers are needed than organic ones. In this case, the position can be saved by watering in a nitro -amophosa dissolved in water. And excesses of the permissible norm of nitrates in vegetables is possible not only from chemical fertilizers, but also from fertilizer by manure.
The method of using nitroamophos for feeding seedlings:
- If 10 liters for watering there are a lot of seedlings, divide the matchbox fertilizers in half and dilute into 5 liters of water
- The same solutions can be sprayed with the same plant leaves
- It is convenient to use a manual spray for this with small spraying
- Such foliar top dressing is also effective.
