Care and cultivation of tomatoes

No matter how easy it may seem that caring for and growing tomatoes, in fact, improper care can lead to the tomatoes not bearing fruit or the fruits being small and tasteless.

Proper care and cultivation of tomatoes include:

- tomatoes need to be grown through seedlings;

- you need to choose quality seeds;

- tomato seeds need to be hardened before planting - freeze the swollen seeds for about three days at a temperature of minus two to three degrees, and then pickle with potassium permanganate;

- seedlings should be watered with warm water and only the soil, without getting on the leaves;

- the soil where tomatoes will be planted in a permanent place must be prepared in the fall by digging well and adding humus, and in the spring, before planting, mineral fertilizers must be added to the soil;

- you need to plant seedlings that are already more than 50 days old;

- pour about a liter of water into each hole;

- after planting tomato seedlings, you need to sprinkle humus or dry soil around the plants;

- seedlings should be planted at a distance of 10 cm, the row spacing should be 12 cm;

- three days after planting, watering and replanting of new plants are carried out to replace the dead ones;

- two weeks after planting the seedlings, you need to feed them, then feed them at the very beginning of fruiting, and the last feed should be done three weeks after the second. During the second and third feedings, nitrogen should not be introduced;

- you need to root out the stepson in time, tie up the plants if necessary, loosen the soil and remove weeds;

- pinch the plants in time so that they have the strength to fully ripen the fruits.

Tomato fruits can ripen even after being picked, if the cold suddenly strikes, then all unripe fruits must be removed and placed in a dark place or the plant should be uprooted and hung upside down until the fruits ripen.