How to plant tomatoes?
There is nothing difficult in growing vegetables. However, in order to harvest the harvest you need to make a lot of effort. And also have the angelic patience. Let's look at this article, how to plant tomato seedlings correctly. After all, often mistakes are made when planting this seedling. And these mistakes inevitably lead to the fact that the first brush falls off the ovary.
How to plant tomatoes correctly
- About a week before planting, prepare the wells. The depth and width of the hole must be at least twenty cm.
- After the hole is ready to fertilize the soil. To do this, put in a hole two-liter can of humus and peat and 200 g. a glass of ash.
- Immediately before planting seedlings, the wells should be poured with standing warm water. And then plant the plants.
- If stocky seedlings are normally formed,then it should be planted vertically. If the seedling is overgrown, then deepen the seedlings to a depth of about fifteen centimeters. At the same time, the covered stalk has the property of letting the roots along the entire length. Plus, the root system is very strong and powerful, and the downside is that the growth of the plant slows down, and the inflorescence falls.
- If you want to properly plant overgrownseedlings, then you can use one tricky method. To do this, you need to dig a hole deep twenty-five centimeters, and in it to dig a smaller hole. Then in a small hole should be poured hot water and plant the plant, dipping it into the soil for three centimeters. After three days, add to the hole peat with humus, about three centimeters. As the plant grows, increase the height of the soil in the hole. With this kind of hilling, new layers of the root system appear in the plant, which do not cause any damage to the plant.
- Considering the topic, how to plant tomatoes, you can notmention one common mistake made by many gardeners. It consists in the fact that initially a hole of the right depth is pulled out, then plant is planted in it, it is covered with dry soil and then watered.
- In order for seedlings to be diggedhole, pour into it one liter of warm, standing water, and plant the plants in the resulting slurry. Only then can the roots of the plant be covered with earth and compacted. Top should be poured peat crumb. Watering this layer is not worth it, since a soil crust may form.
- The earth between the rows should be loosened, so moisture will evaporate less. By following this technique of planting, you will spare yourself the need to water the seedlings every day.
- The lower leaves that touch the ground must be removed.
Overgrown seedlings
- Overgrown seedlings of its height reach a meter, and thick with barely a pencil. It is logical that with such growth and such a width, she can not hold herself.
- First, cut the leaves to the top, leaving only a small section, about thirty centimeters. This procedure should be carried out two or three days before planting.
- After that, you need to drive in the beds of pegs at a distance of 50 cm. On them you'll tie the seedlings.
- Make a groove from each peg with a length of 60 cm and a depth of 7 cm. Well, and at the very end of the furrow you can make a hole for seedlings.
- Keep in mind that it is not necessary to make grooves deeper, since the roots of the plant will not be comfortable in cold ground.
- Lying in the grooves stems in two places with special wooden hooks and pour loose ground. The stem that remained above the ground is tied to the peg.
- To loosen and hill such beds it is impossible in any case.
- Such seedlings should not be planted in greenhouses. A normal normal seedling is more suitable for greenhouses.
Now you know how to plant tomatoes in a greenhouse,as well as how to behave, if you got into your hands overgrown seedlings. In any case, paying no attention to any difficulties plant plants with love, take care of them and they will please you with fruits, as a reward for your work. You also need our article: "When to plant tomatoes?".