3 mistakes that will prevent you from harvesting tomatoes: you make them yourself
It is unlikely that any of the summer residents grow tomato bushes to decorate their plot. No, everyone pursues only one goal: to collect a good harvest of tomatoes.
Sometimes elementary mistakes made by gardeners become an obstacle on the way to achieving what is desired.
Such mistakes, firstly, include thickening of plantings, which is especially common in greenhouses.
Try to ensure that there is 60-70 cm of free space both within and between rows.
In this case, the bushes should always be formed into one stem, getting rid of all the stepsons when they are, as they say, still in the embryo.
Your task is to make sure that the foliage closes or overlaps with the foliage of neighboring bushes. Breeding the vines on trellises will help with this.
Secondly, many farmers make mistakes when it comes to irrigation.
Increased humidity is only needed for the first week after you plant the seedlings so that they take root. And then an abundance of moisture only does harm: it causes a riot of growth and does not allow the flowers to develop on the first inflorescences.
Another disadvantage of heavy watering is that the bushes do not develop deep roots. This means that they simply will not be able to cope with drought.
You can start watering tomato beds only after the fruits have set in large numbers.
And thirdly: you shouldn’t remove healthy leaves – this technique, on the contrary, delays the moment of ripening.
This is allowed only in exceptional cases - extreme thickening is an example, and then, no more than three leaves at a time. We are talking about healthy foliage now, and not about old, yellowing and sick leaves. They can and should be removed.
