"Greenhouse vegetable" or how to grow tomatoes in a greenhouse correctly!
This vegetable is planted by gardeners in greenhouses and in open beds. By following the simple rules for growing tomatoes in a greenhouse, you will get a good and tasty harvest.
So, consider the correct cultivation of a tomato in a greenhouse.
Initially, you need to decide on the choice of what kind of tomatoes you will grow in the greenhouse.
In stores or in the market, you can stumble upon a huge number of varieties of this culture. Of course, it is very difficult to choose, many do not know what is more correct to choose for a greenhouse.
The breeders helped us with this and selected special varieties that grow only in greenhouses.
With proper care, these varieties of tomatoes will give you a huge harvest with a delicious taste. To obtain such a result, it is necessary to properly care for tomatoes and observe all technologies for growing this crop in a greenhouse.
Decide in advance whether you will use the grown variety for canning for the winter or will use it fresh. In this case, you can pick up different types of tomatoes, which have a difference in fruit size and purpose. In greenhouses, varieties of tomatoes such as cherry, hermitage and hazel grouse are usually grown.
What do you need to prepare a greenhouse?
Tomatoes are very fond of warmth and light. The temperature at which they grow well should reach up to 25 degrees. Therefore, immediately place the greenhouse correctly, it should be a well-lit place. Also, some instead of a greenhouse use a greenhouse, they also grow tomatoes not bad.
Many people use film greenhouses, in this case they should be made of several layers of polyethylene, the interlayer between them will contribute to additional insulation. Be sure to make windows around the edges so that there is ventilation.
Growing a tomato in a greenhouse: preparing seedlings
You need to know that your next harvest of tomatoes depends on the condition of the soil. This culture is very whimsical in the correct preparation of the soil. If the soil contains all the necessary trace elements, then the tomatoes will grow and bear fruit well.
If the soil in your area is loamy, then it is recommended to add sawdust, peat and humus to it. If you have peaty soil in this place, then fertilize with turf, dry sawdust or humus.
Add mineral fertilizers, superphosphate with nitrate to all types of soil. After adding fertilizer, thoroughly dig up all the soil. To obtain a good harvest, ash is also added. Remember that without preparing the soil in advance, even the best seedlings will not bring you a huge harvest. Therefore, do not be lazy and prepare the soil for planting tomatoes 100%.
You need to arrange the beds a week before you are going to plant seedlings in the ground. The beds should be forty centimeters high and one hundred centimeters wide. It is better to make the paths between the beds wide, optimally 70 centimeters wide. Before transplanting seedlings into the ground, loosen and spill the soil well.
We transplant the seedlings into the ground.
If your seedlings in the greenhouse have grown already 30 centimeters long, then you can already start transplanting them to the ground. Usually it is transplanted in early May.
When planting, observe the distance between the bushes, for tall bushes, make a distance of 60 centimeters, for medium ones, you can make 40 centimeters.
We plant the bushes in an upright position and cover the root with the stem with earth, until the first leaves. Before planting, spill the wells with a weak solution of potassium permanganate and add some mineral fertilizers.
We take care of tomatoes correctly.
In order for tomatoes to please you with an excellent harvest, you need to take care of them, namely, tie up each bush, loosen the ground and remove weeds, pick off stepchildren, apply fertilizer, water the tomatoes regularly and protect them from diseases.
Tomatoes are not a very whimsical culture and needs water every five days. Frequent watering of this crop will negatively affect you.
And also regularly harvest the grown crops, this will increase your yield!