15.08.2021
Not all vegetables have time to ripen completely and without losses in a season in the middle lane. Especially if summer is cool or autumn comes ahead of schedule. To harvest faster, without waiting for some disease or a season of lingering rains to destroy it, vegetables need to be helped to ripen as soon as possible. We will tell you how to quickly and easily accelerate the development of the most popular garden crops.
Tomatoes
When growing tomatoes in a greenhouse, it is recommended to close it for a day, and then ventilate it so that the condensate evaporates. This will allow the fruit to ripen faster. In the open field, when it gets cold, be sure to cover the bushes with foil at night. Reduce watering and feeding.
What else can you do:
- Water the bushes for a couple of days with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
- Next to the stalks, make 2-3 shallow punctures with a wooden toothpick. After ripening, the fruits must be eaten immediately.
- Apply iodine - 35 drops per bucket of water for a single spraying and 20 drops per bucket for weekly root watering. Add a liter of whey to the watering solution.
- Secure the banana peel in a bag on a branch with tomatoes for 2-3 days.
- Slightly pulling the plant up to hook the roots - this will provide more nutrients to the fruits. Alternatively, you can press the stem a little at the base with a wire.
- Remove fresh buds from branches with fruits.
- Pinch the top above the fifth shoot.
- Dissolve 2.5 tablespoons of superphosphate in a liter of hot water, insist and spray on fruit brushes with ovaries.
- Raise the brushes with fruits from the ground closer to the sunlight by tying or installing supports.
- When the temperature drops below 10 ° C, tomatoes are harvested to ripen indoors.
- Bushes affected by late blight need to be pulled out by the root and hung in a warm place to ripen the fruits.
- Put transparent bags with a hole at the bottom on green fruits - so the temperature near the fruits will be higher, and they will ripen quickly.
Eggplants and peppers
If the fruits of the pepper have already reached the required size, then they can be removed and left to ripen in a warm room.
What else to do:
- Loosen the soil periodically with a small hoe.
- Insist 2 cups of ash in a bucket of water and sprinkle on the leaves.
- Make a cut through and through about 10 cm by 15 cm above the base of the trunk and insert the chips - this way all the nutrition will be received by the fruits, not the leaves.
Potato
The bushes should be sprayed two weeks before harvest.
One of the following formulations is used:
- Copper sulfate solution (2%).
- Two-day infusion of superphosphate (2 kg per bucket of water).
Melon and pumpkin
To achieve rapid ripening, fresh shoots should be pinched on top of the melon and pumpkin and the flowers should be cut off. As soon as the fruits reach their normal size, 5-7 leaves are left on each fruit, and the rest are removed.
Cucumbers
To provide additional nutrition to the fruit, it is recommended to spread the whips on the ground, cut off the lower leaves and cover the stem with earth. In this way, the formation of new roots can be stimulated.
Carrot
In rainy weather, the tops are cut, leaving only 5-6 cm in length, without leaves. This will protect the fruit from cracking.
Cabbage
In early varieties, horizontally growing leaves should be collected in a bunch, secured with the help of available materials. The rest of cabbage varieties can be treated with a growth stimulant, for example "Novosil".
Onion and garlic
For onions to ripen, it is important that the soil is dry. During the rainy season, the garden bed should be covered with foil, and watering should be stopped for a couple of weeks. If the bulbs are half free from the ground, then in the air they will ripen faster.
The same applies to garlic - for better ripening, the bulbs should stick out slightly from the ground. Also, do not forget to tie the tops in a knot after removing the arrows, so that the plant directs all its forces towards the formation and ripening of the fruit.
As you can see, there is nothing difficult about getting a healthy crop of vegetables early. Try these methods in practice, and you will be satisfied with the result.
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