Every self-respecting summer residents know that grown in your own garden tomatoes a hundred times tastier than any purchased on market, but to grow them is not so simple: tomatoes as a culture quite fastidious in the care and require special approach.
For example, in the summer of idle conversations I often heard the conventional wisdom about the benefits of the hot weather to grow tomatoes, and this article is going to finally put an end to this matter.
whether heat is dangerous for tomatoes
Definitely - yes! It is not necessary to believe the unfortunate gardeners, who assert that for a good harvest tomatoes only need abundant watering and hot weather. As you know - everything is good in moderation, and tomatoes in this statement - not the exception. If the summer is issued hot, I always pay attention to the protection of tomatoes and other crops from excessive heat.
Banal drought - the first thing that can threaten the tomatoes in a stuffy, dry weather. And it is not only in irrigation: even when abundantly watered in the evening or morning hours, the soil is just half a day to fully dry and cracked.
Themselves as fruits, actively absorbs moisture during the night, the day turned into its "vaporizers", which leads to cracking of the fruit. Many gardeners are not too experienced at this moment decide that too much is poured beds, and cutting back watering, further exacerbating the situation.
Hot weather is dangerous for tomatoes, not only lack of moisture: in such conditions often develop dangerous for the culture of the disease. I remember, as a neighbor in his time not been able to cope From the top of rot: All wondered what caused it, and was jealous of my high and intact disease bushes (well, several times a day, sheds and sheltered from direct sunlight).
How to protect the tomatoes from the heat
Hearing this, I always try to pay attention to the questioner that safeguard the heat is not so much the tomatoes themselves, as the ground around them, preventing it from drying out.
For these purposes the perfect mulching with straw or mown grass: mulch under every bush takes up the main "sunstroke", preventing moisture to evaporate from the ground so quickly. Measure the temperature of the day under a layer of mulch and a bush without her, I discovered that the soil temperature really drops a few degrees.
Moreover, the beds may be covered with a white film or a gauze. From school physics course, we remember that white and therefore white, which reflects all other colors, do not actually absorbing them, therefore - thrown under a bush tomato white film will prevent overheating of the soil and retain such valuable for tomatoes moisture in it.
Remember that the only place where tomatoes should be a good fry - a frying pan, and not your garden. BY THE WAYI almost forgot to ask you to look at the photo below... :)