What is the care for tomatoes in the greenhouse?

All truck farmers should know that caring for tomatoes in the greenhouse is fundamentally different from caring for them on the open ground. What is the reason for this? First, a microclimate is formed in the greenhouse, which favorably affects the plants, but at the same time contributes to the development of diseases and the appearance of pests. Secondly, in order to create this microclimate, it is necessary to exert a lot of effort (more than in the garden).

How to start caring for tomatoes in a greenhouse?

The first step is to prepare the greenhouse itself and the soil in it. The room must be equipped, that is, have windows, doors, lighting fixtures and other necessary fixtures. Peat, humus, is introduced into the soil from autumn, and if it is clayey, then straw. In the spring, digging up the earth, do not forget to add fertilizers and ashes, and after all the preparatory procedures, pour the solution of potassium permanganate in hot form (for disinfection). Now the greenhouse is ready for planting tomatoes. Care for them consists of many activities, but the main ones are:

• watering;
• Top dressing;
• Pasynkovanie.

In addition, tomatoes need to provide the necessary lighting, temperature, prevent diseases and pests.

Watering

When you transplanted the seedlings, immediately pour it with warm water. In the future with water you have to be more careful. Plentiful watering of tomatoes in the greenhouse begins only when warm days are established and the ovaries of fruits will appear. Before this, it is sufficient to moisten the soil once every two weeks, or even less often. It all depends on what the weather is outside the greenhouse. As a rule, when planted seedlings (this is about the beginning of May), it's cold outside, so plants have enough moisture that they got after transplantation, and they can get its lack from the formed morning dew. As soon as the first fruits began to appear, then you can already increase the watering, using about 10 liters per square meter. Pouring should be strictly under the root.

Pasynkovanie

Care for tomatoes in the greenhouse is also in pasynkovaniya. To get an early harvest, you need to grow tomatoes in a single stem. To do this, pinch the tip of the stem, while on one stem there should be no more than 8 brushes. The plant itself must be tied to the trellis. Pasynkovanie spend in the morning. Do this periodically, that is, as the shoots grow.

Top dressing

In the greenhouse you need to provide nutritional elements for your tomatoes - planting and caring for them suggest reusable fertilizing at all stages of growth. Once the seedlings get accustomed, you can start making fertilizers. To do this, use liquid products containing phosphorus and potassium. They are introduced into the soil until the harvest itself. In the period of fructification, nitrogen is added to these fertilizers. The amount of fertilizing depends on the condition of the soil. Therefore, before planting, it would not hurt to study its composition, especially if you grow plants on it for the first time. If the harvest of tomatoes was already collected for more than one year, then the feeding is carried out according to the old scheme.

Tips and Tricks

1. If your greenhouse is fully equipped with a heating and lighting system, then the tomatoes can be planted already in early April, if it is only heated by the sun, it is not until May.

2. After pasynkovanija it is necessary to help plants to pollinate, for this purpose in the early morning shake them if they are tied to a wire, it is enough to shake only it.

3. If the hothouse is not heated, it is recommended to dilute the fertilizer in warm water.

4. Lower leaves are advised to remove, as they still do not take part in the development of the plant (do this gradually, removing 2-3 leaves per week).

5.To do not curl the leaves, sprinkle them with boric acid.

6. In order to avoid fungal and other diseases, abundantly water tomatoes with potassium permanganate.

6 Carbon dioxide is useful for plants, so the dry ice method is used.

In these simple manipulations is the care of tomatoes in the greenhouse. Attach a little effort and patience, and soon you will have delicious tomatoes on your table.