2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
It is unlikely that in our latitudes there is such a garden in which tomatoes would not grow. To get a good harvest of these wonderful vegetables, efficient summer residents surround them with care from the moment of sowing seeds for seedlings. However, along with the volume of harvests, the number of myths about growing tomatoes is gradually growing: many summer residents try to transfer the seedlings to the warmest place, in every possible way protect it from low temperatures, and when planting seedlings they try to leave most of the stems on the surface. And this is not entirely correct! It's time to dispel the most common myths
Tomato seedlings are grown exclusively in warmth
In fact, the temperature exceeding the twenty-two degrees mark is absolutely useless for tomatoes. Moreover, "greenhouse" conditions often lead to the fact that tomato seedlings become fragile, gradually stretch out, transfer transplantation into the ground extremely unimportantly, and then try to "get well" for a long time. The most optimal temperature range for growing seedlings is considered to be in the range from eighteen to twenty-two degrees, and when the first shoots appear, the temperature can be slightly reduced. Moreover, tomato seedlings must be hardened! To this end, some summer residents take it out to their glazed balconies in mid-April, and some daredevils dare to do such a feat even in mid-March! Seedlings of tomatoes, which had a chance to survive short-term hardening, almost always turn into rather strong and sturdy bushes, delighting with abundant fruiting!
It is extremely problematic to grow capricious tomato seedlings
Not at all! Tomato seedlings are rightfully considered one of the most "tenacious" and unpretentious, because they can grow in almost any conditions! And if watermelon seedlings need to be grafted onto lagenaria, strawberry seedlings - dive with tweezers, and early cabbage seedlings - in every possible way to protect from high temperatures, then with tomatoes everything is much easier! Even if a tiny seedling has received any damage, it is simply buried in the ground, leaving only the top outside, and do not hesitate - in the vast majority of cases it will definitely take root again!
Do not bury the stalks of seedlings when planting
For some reason, it is generally accepted that the deep-seated planting of this culture is the prerogative of only a number of southern regions. But in the conditions of the middle lane, many do not recommend burying tomato stalks - supposedly, until the seedling begins to form additional roots, the summer is already over and it will be possible to forget about a good harvest. In fact, everything is completely different: the buried seedlings quite amicably and quickly build up their ground parts and roots! As a result of such manipulations, plants acquire a more powerful root system, which without much difficulty provides them with additional nutrition, which in turn inevitably leads to an increase in harvest volumes!
It is especially useful to deepen the seedlings of indeterminate varieties, which continuously stretch upward and form the first clusters only after the formation of the eighth leaf. If you do not deepen their stems, then their entire lower part by the end of the season will be bare empty stems, and the formation of tomatoes will occur only at the top. It turns out that there is an irrational use of the greenhouse space, which simply cannot but upset the owners of small plots. If you bury the stems of such tomatoes just to the very eighth leaf in the ground, then the very first fruits will be tied directly above the ground, and the plants will continue to stretch up in any case. As a result, there will be much more fruiting brushes on them, the harvest volumes will become much more solid, and the greenhouse space will be used to the maximum. So, based on these considerations, it will be much more expedient to bury tomato seedlings when planting to the maximum, leaving only their tops free!
What secrets of growing tomato seedlings do you have?
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