Top dressing Tomato seedlings

To get a rich harvest of tomatoes, you need good seedlings. In such seedlings, the stem is thick and short, and the first brush is located low. If the soil is fertile, then you can get high quality seedlings and without additional fertilizing. And if the soil is poor, then top dressing of tomato seedlings is simply necessary.

Usually, the first fertilizing of tomato seedlings takes place 10-12 days after picking. The second top dressing of tomato seedlings passes fourteen days after the first.

Some farmers are beginning to feed seedlings at an early age, even in the phase of the formation of this leaf. Of course, it is possible to feed seedlings before, but is it necessary? After all, there is no way to overdo this issue. If the plant grows with thick, dark green leaves, it has a purple tint in the stem, then there is enough nutrients in the soil and it is not necessary to interfere, and in this case the first fertilizing of the tomato seedlings will be needed only ten days before the tomatoes are planted in the soil.

During the whole vegetation period, tomatoes are fed several times. After landing in the soil, fertilization of tomato seedlings takes place in two weeks. For feeding, take a liter of Mullein infusion, a glass of wood ash, superphosphate double one and a half spoon and pour ten liters of water.

Instead of Mullein infusion, you can prepare a green slurry. It's very simple. Take a twenty-liter enamel saucepan, stuffed with mown grass (nettle, dandelion, pineapple, salad will be used) and watered. The pan should be tightly closed with a film and put in the sun for a week.

The remaining filtered solution should be stored in a dark place until the next time. The same composition needs to feed the seedlings once more before flowering, only in it one third of the potassium permanganate must be added. When the first ovaries appear, tomatoes are fed with a mixture prepared from a liter of green slurry or mullein, a spoonful of urea, two tablespoons of superphosphate, two glasses of ashes, a third of a teaspoon of copper sulfate and ten liters of water. The same solution, in which you need to add half a tablet of microfertilizer, feed tomatoes during the ripening period of the fruit.

In addition to organic fertilizers, tomatoes need mineral top dressing. To prepare mineral fertilizing, you need to take 10 liters of ammonium nitrate - 15 g, potassium chloride - 40 g, superphosphate - 60 g. One plant consumes one liter of the mixture.

Ogorodniki often feed vegetables with nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers. But fertilizing vegetables is not always done taking into account the weather conditions, and it's useless to do it in cold weather, since nutrients are not absorbed well. Feeding vegetables in dry weather also does not benefit, because phosphorus, for example, in dry soil affects the roots badly and is also poorly digested, so the soil must be well watered before fertilization.

Top dressing of tomato seedlings with nitrogen fertilizers should be carried out carefully, with observance of all norms, as the excess, like the lack of this organic fertilizer, equally badly affects tomatoes.

A large amount of biohumus, compost and other organic fertilizers, which can be bought freely in the store, leads to the formation of beautiful, thick leaves. Tomatoes will start to "fatten" and increase the green mass, hence, the yield will begin to fall.

A large amount of nitrogen in the soil will cause the leaves to look like crumpled paper, turn yellow, twist and break. Phosphorus increases the resistance of plants to cold.

If the plant lacks phosphorus, the lower part of the leaves, streaks and stem will be violet. But such starvation is considered insignificant and no radical steps to take at this time is not necessary. But tomatoes that have been overfed with nitrogen even before planting in the greenhouse can be helped by adding more potassium, phosphorus and wood ash to the soil - the microelements that are contained in it help the plant quickly "digest" nitrogen.

If tomatoes are overfed with manure or bird droppings, then the beds should be properly watered - 10 liters of water per plant to wash excess nitrogen. Do it better in the morning in hot weather, but too often this procedure can not be repeated, since tomatoes do not like dampness. To force the plant to think about the formation of fruits, and not to drive the tops, it is possible to break off 2-3 lower leaves. You can leave the tomato several stepsons, so that it quickly consumes excess nitrogen.