Very many fans of agriculture complain that due to a strongly changed climate, tomatoes in the open soil began to grow badly. Strong heat dries leaves and ovary, hurricane winds break the bushes, heavy rains contribute to fungal diseases of tomatoes. If you are an avid gardener and accustomed to growing vegetables yourself, then you will definitely build a greenhouse on your site. It is in it that tomatoes grow well, but if they care for them to care.
How to care for tomatoes in greenhouse - create optimal conditions
A greenhouse for tomatoes can make a completely different shape and size, but it is sure to provide the window opening. It must be on the opposite wall from the door. The window is necessary in order to carry out the ventilation. If the windows are not, then in a wet plant, the plants risk picked up any fungal disease.
In order for the crop of tomatoes in the greenhouse is big, take care of the soil in advance.
- In the summer all over the entire surface of future beds dig up the ground, approximately the bayonet shovel. The resulting deepening close the transparent film. Keep the film on the earth a month or two - it will not let us take the seeds of weeds.
- In August, remove the film and sit at the site of future beds so-called Siderats: mustard, rye, oats, lupine or other similar plants. Siderats are needed in order for the soil to be fertile. Siderats who have got satisfied. Leave them in the ground until the spring.
- Spring straight on top of the dried winter of Siderates, pour a mixture of garden land, dry humus or compost and sand. Take it in equal amounts. Soil sink slightly and swipe with water.
In a month prepared in this way, you can plant tomato seedlings.
How to care for tomatoes in the greenhouse - right
Watering the tomatoes, while the bushes are still young, produce water with water not lower than 22 degrees.
- The first watering is made during the seedlings landing.
- The second watering will take 10-12 days.
- All further watering produce in 5-6 days.
The amount of water for watering depends on what kind of development is your bushes are located. Before the flowering of tomatoes, 4 liters per 1 sq.m., during flowering and tie fruits - 12 liters per 1 sq.m. When green fruits begin to brighten, the amount of water reduce to 6-8 liters per 1 sq.m. During active ripening, watering reduce to a minimum - too much moisture can lead to cracking of fruits.
How to care for tomatoes in the greenhouse - be sure to do
Tomatoes, unlike cucumbers, very love dry air. If both of these vegetables grow in the greenhouse, divide the room into two separate parts - for this, use a polyethylene film or a polycarbonate sheet. That part where tomatoes grow, ventilate after each watering. If the greenhouse is too wet, then make a draft even more often. To do this, simultaneously open the window and the door and keep them open at least 2-3 hours a day.
How to care for tomatoes in greenhouse - do manual pollination
In the open soil, tomatoes are pollinated by flying insects. In the greenhouses, the bee, naturally, do not fly. You will have to take care of pollination yourself. To do this, while flowering bushes every day, shake the bushes a bit. Pollen will fall on the adjacent flowers and tomatoes will begin to be tie. Manual pollination do only after ventilation - wet air will hinder light pollen into the air.
How to care for tomatoes in the greenhouse - we use fertilizers
All vegetables, wherever they grow, are very grateful respond to feeding. If you correctly prepared a bed for tomatoes (see paragraph 1 of this article), you can not use special fertilizers from the store. It will be enough to water the tomatoes homemade organic fertilizer. Holly barrel for fresh beveled herbs or crawled weeds. Add a bucket of wood ash and a bucket of a cowboat to them. Barrel turn to the top with water. Give this mixture 10 days, and then adopt the tomatoes. Divide the infusion in this way: 1 part of the liquid fertilizer and 20 pieces of clean water.
Tomatoes fertilizer start watering at the moment when the first marking will appear on the bushes. For the summer, adapt the bushes 2-3 times with a break in 2 weeks.
The cultivation of tomatoes in the greenhouse is practically no different from such a process in open beds. But in greenhouses, the harvest is always guaranteed. In the greenhouses it is best to grow tall tomatoes - they occupy less square, as the fruits are placed over the entire length of the trunks. High bushes need to be configured to support. What linked tomatoes look like, you can see in the video. There are still some advice on growing rich harvest.