My experience growing tomatoes in the window began many years ago, an accident of history. One day my friend and I went to tea with her colleague, and saw a real garden in a small apartment. The street was cold, and the woman still blossoming and fruit. Tomatoes, who took a windowsill looked like a Christmas tree with lots of red and green toys.
Then, in the gift I received two bush seedlings and planted them at home in a flower pot. We can not say that the first crop was obtained without problems. Through trial and error, searching for answers on the Internet, I gained experience gardener, which is now more willing to share with friends and strangers.
5 rules of success growing tomatoes on the windowsill
If you too want to be useful and tasty vegetables on their windowsills and a loggia, you need to remember a few rules:
- For the cultivation of tomatoes in the apartment have to choose varieties specially adapted for the home environment. They genetically laid stress tolerance to low light. With low growth and shortened internodes, the bush does not take up much space, and the fruits ties even with the minimum amount of nutrients. For his garden I choose cherry tomatoes, weighing 15-20 g They grow in clusters and have a great taste due to the high sugar content.
- Tomatoes grown in ambient conditions, best suited pots cylindrical shape of 3-5 liters. You should know that tomatoes are more demanding of the container width than its depth.
- The soil for planting vegetables were purchased from a garden center. In the conditions of the apartment alone is not so easy to experiment with the ground. But a good store land drainage and fertilizing give good results.
- An important condition for the cultivation of vegetables is light, so in winter the short days, plants dosvechivayutsya special lamps.
- Even high-quality substrate can not provide the plant with necessary nutrients. Therefore it is necessary to alternate between the organic and complex fertilizer for top dressing. Feeding combine with watering about once every 10 days.
- Because under the house tomatoes are especially in need of moisture, they need to moisturize regularly, but, in any case, do not transfer.
Win-win varieties and hybrids of tomatoes
My experience growing tomatoes on the windowsill showed that give good yields of dwarf and dwarf varieties and hybrids:
- Red Riding Hood.
- Baby.
- Bonsai Micro F1.
- Florida Petit.
- Ampelnye grade "Ash beads" with long shoots, not only look exquisite in hanging pots, but also give a lot of tasty fruits.
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