Several “don’ts” when growing tomatoes, fertilizers for tomatoes

Fertilizers for tomatoes You can make it yourself, or you can buy ready-made ones.

The main thing in the subcortex of tomatoes – choosing the right fertilizer for tomatoes: in no case should you over-fertilize them with manure, chicken droppings, mineral nitrogen fertilizers, you need to give phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, ash and potassium sulfate.

When growing tomatoes, it is necessary to take into account several factors, or rather, remember some “don’ts”:

- you can’t grow plants in oily soil that is overly fertilized with organic matter;

- bird droppings and manure should not be placed in holes for tomatoes, as they will cause the plants to turn into greens and not into fruits;

- you cannot fertilize tomatoes with mullein more than three times a season;

- you cannot put urea under the plants, you can only spray it once at the beginning of the growing season;

- you can’t plant different varieties of tomatoes side by side, it’s better to choose one and grow it, also don’t plant plants in the shade and too densely;

- you cannot fill tomatoes with water, this will interfere with the supply of oxygen to the roots;

- tomatoes cannot be planted at soil level; it is best to plant them in high beds;

- fertilizers cannot be changed. It is necessary to opt for one complex mineral fertilizer and use it together with organic matter in a strictly defined quantity. And always consider the characteristics of the soil before purchasing fertilizer.

1st feeding It is best to do this in early June; for each bush you need to add one liter of fertilizer mixture (add 1/2 liter of mullein, a tablespoon of nitrophoska, two tablets of microfertilizers and 1/2 teaspoon of boric acid to ten liters of water).

2nd feeding It is advisable in early July to apply a liter of the prepared fertilizer mixture under each bush (add 1/2 liter of mullein, a tablespoon of potassium sulfate and 2 tablets of microfertilizers to 10 liters of water).

After the second half of July, feeding tomatoes should be stopped.