When planning plantings, it is important to take into account mistakes in caring for tomatoes and comply with the requirements for growing a vegetable crop (watering schedule, fertilizing, temperature in the greenhouse, etc.). Seedlings slow down growth with irregular watering, when using infertile soil, excessive shade of plantings.
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Rules and list of care errors
A mistake when growing tomatoes is insufficient or excessive watering of the plantings. In summer, tomatoes are recommended to be watered at least 1 time per week, in dry periods irrigation is required 2 times a week. Drying of the soil is not allowed. The required volume of water for 1 bush should be sufficient to moisten to the depth of the plant's root system (about 30-50 cm).
Watering requirements must be observed until the end of the growing season of tomato planting. In August, the roots of the vegetable crop become powerful and can receive moisture from the deep layers of the soil. Therefore, watering in August - September should be moderate.
The mistake is the lack of fertilizing components or the wrong selection of funds. Organic compounds (humus, infusions of nettle, mullein, chicken droppings) and nitrogenous agents are introduced at the beginning of the growing season. It is optimal to use organic matter during the period of growing tomato seedlings before bud formation. It is also required to add organic compounds after transferring weakened seedlings to open soil.
After planting the plants, phosphorus agents are added to the greenhouse or open soil for good rooting of the vegetable crop. During the period of flowering and fruit creation, it is required to make potash and phosphorus fertilizers. You can use complex formulations with a set of trace elements. When growing tomatoes on fertile land, you can reduce the amount of dressing.
Late pinching is considered a mistake, since the formed fruits will be small. In dense plantings, pathogenic bacteria can form, which negatively affects productivity. The growth of tomatoes that have not been pinned slows down. Therefore, it is required to remove side shoots at least 1 time per week.
An error is considered to be inconsistency with the rules for the formation of a variety or hybrid variety of tomatoes, since the declared yield may decrease. Requirements are indicated on the seed package. A description of the process of forming a bush is contained in the characteristics of the variety. When growing tomatoes in the south, it is allowed to leave all the ovaries, since they have time to ripen. For plantings in the center of Russia and in the northern regions, it is required to remove flowers that have not formed into fruits.
Recommendations for growing tomatoes
Planting tomato seedlings next to cucumbers is considered a mistake. These vegetables are grown in different conditions. Rot may appear on the beds with a combination of tomatoes and cucumber plantings. Optimum yields can be achieved by growing these crops in different greenhouses.
The lack of conditions for pollination of flowering tomatoes will negatively affect plantings. For stable pollination of tomatoes, ventilation, warm air temperature is required. In cool weather, it is recommended to close the greenhouse, the bushes are shaken daily in the morning or the pollen is transferred with a brush.
The mistake of growing tomatoes is the lack of preventive spraying of plants from diseases. Processing is carried out in advance, before fruit set. At maturation, spraying is not carried out.
After the end of the flowering period, it is required to treat the plants with the "Acrobat" preparation. 40 g of the product is diluted in clean water (10 l). Effective means "Metaxil", it is required to dilute in water (10 l) up to 80 g of the substance. After the first treatment, the bushes are sprayed with fungicides. Funds are diluted in water, 10 liters of liquid will require 100 - 150 ml of the drug "Azophos", 16 g, etc. For an area of 10 m², at least 0.5 liters of solution are consumed. Works are carried out in the evening. The final spraying is done 20 days before harvesting.
The removal of almost all the leaves negatively affects the yield, since the fruits will not be able to form and ripen.
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