Feeding tomatoes with yeast in the open field

Increasingly, summer residents began to use folk remedies as fertilizers. In particular, tomatoes cannot do without dressing, since without them you cannot get a good tasty harvest. Increasingly, for these purposes, tomato feeding with yeast is used. Why not, it is not difficult to prepare such fertilizer, and the material is always available.

Feeding tomatoes with yeast: what exactly are good for

Let's go directly to the pros of using yeast as a tomato feed.

- The chemical composition of the yeast improves the quality of the soil in your garden. Microorganisms that enter the ground are a good food for earthworms. Thus, the earth receives additional oxygen and humus.

- If you fed your seedlings with yeast, then do not worry about transplanting. Plants will survive it calmly.

- Thanks to the nutrients entering the soil and the additional fertility of the earth, the green part of the plants, as well as the rhizomes, grow and develop well.

- New shoots appear much more intensively than those of bushes that have not been fed with yeast.

- There are more ovaries, so fruiting is more active, and, accordingly, the yield level is much higher.

- Tomatoes fed with yeast survive the weather changes more calmly. Increases immunity to major diseases and pests. In particular, tomatoes are practically not affected by late blight.

- There are no unnatural synthetic substances in yeast-based feedings, therefore tomatoes obtained from such plants are safe for allergy sufferers and children.

- The cost of such feeding is very low.

Feeding tomatoes with yeast: proper feeding

Additional fertilizing for tomatoes is needed in any case, it does not depend on where you grow your plants. Whether it is greenhouse conditions or an open area. Yeast feeding provides your plantings with sufficient amounts of essential nutrients that are so required to obtain a good harvest. Yeast top dressing should be applied after the tomatoes have already been planted. The rest of the usual dressing must be done before that, so that the fertilizers applied are dissolved in the soil.

Yeast feeding can be done already in seedling age. You can apply it by the foliar method or by root. Both methods give good results.

Let's talk a little about root feeding. It is recommended to apply yeast fertilizer for the first time after two seedling leaves appear. This measure is not necessary at all. It is more important to add yeast feeding during the second pick of the plants. For a low-growing tomato, this procedure is not mandatory, but for tall tomatoes it is mandatory. To do this, mix five teaspoons of sugar, a glass of sifted wood ash, and one small package of simple baking yeast. Stir and let stand for a while. You will understand that everything is ready by the fact that the fermentation is over. Dilute this mixture with water, one in ten. This recipe is more good for seedlings. For grown bushes, a different recipe is used. Dissolve one hundred grams of yeast and three tablespoons of sugar with water (you need three liters). Leave the solution to ferment. Wait until the end of this process and use top dressing. One glass of this solution is enough for ten liters of water. Suitable for watering a tomato. It will not be superfluous if here you add nettles with hops.Nettle also has a good effect on the development of plants during watering, hops, in turn, make fermentation more active.

There is another recipe for making yeast feeding. Experienced gardeners often add wood ash and chicken droppings. For such a solution, you need to mix dry yeast (ten grams), chicken manure infusion (half a liter), wood ash (half a liter), water (ten liters), sugar (five tablespoons). This composition must be kept for one week and then water the tomatoes. Adult plants are watered with a couple of liters of the composition. Young bushes require less, half a liter will be enough. In principle, if you wish, you can replace chicken droppings with mullein-based infusions.

An important step in caring for tomatoes is foliar feeding. It is very beneficial for plants. When you have just transplanted your seedlings in a greenhouse or in beds in open ground, root dressing is not recommended. The root system is not yet sufficiently strong, and for these reasons, during this period, gardeners prefer spraying. This is done for several reasons.

Firstly, foliar fertilization can be applied even when the plant is still very small and not too strong.

Secondly, the stems and leaves have such an internal structure that allows nutrients to be distributed more quickly throughout the plant. The same happens with nutrients and during root application of yeast fertilizers, but only much more slowly.

Be careful with the concentration of your yeast solution. If the concentration is too strong, there is a risk that the leaves will be burnt.

When to carry out yeast feeding

Let's say a few words about when it is better to carry out yeast feeding. There are certain rules here too.

1) Choose the right time. The soil for applying root dressings must be well warmed up. Better not to rush and wait for stable warm weather. Usually this time falls on the end of May - beginning of June. By this time, the earth is already warming up well, and useful elements will be absorbed better and faster. What time of day to feed? It is better to give preference to the morning or evening hours, when the sun's rays are no longer so active. If you grow tomatoes in a greenhouse, then feed them in the morning, by the evening the bushes should dry out.

2) Organize the correct soil. Do not apply top dressing to dry soil, but there should not be too much moisture either. The best solution is to slightly moisten the soil before adding the yeast solution.

3) Correctly observe the dosage. Yeast infusion is not such a harmless remedy, it can also be easily overdone with it. And this is fraught with not the best consequences for your plant and crop.

4) Frequency of applications. Feeding based on yeast, as a rule, is carried out no more than three to four times in one season. They enrich the soil with nitrogen, but potassium and magnesium begin to be removed. For this reason, add wood ash to the solution, or sprinkle it between the rows.

5) Use with care. This is an important point that many gardeners, unfortunately, forget. But in vain! Chicken droppings, which are added when preparing a yeast infusion, can leave burns on the roots of plants if you pour such a top dressing under the very base of the tomatoes. For this purpose, make grooves near the trunks of the plants.

If you do the yeast feeding of your tomatoes correctly, follow all the agricultural techniques, then as a result you are guaranteed to have an excellent result in the form of a bountiful harvest of delicious fruits. If you still doubt the effectiveness and safety of such measures, then you can experiment on a separate bed. In this case, you will have the opportunity to look for tomatoes without yeast feeding and those that receive such fertilizers.