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How to Prepare the Ideal Soil for Tomato Seedlings: Experienced Gardeners Share Their Tips
20.02.2023 15:00
Updated: 14.04.2023 04:56
The yield of tomatoes depends on the quality of the soil for seedlings.
Therefore, it is important to pay sufficient attention to the preparation of the mixture.
Some summer residents simply buy ready-made mixtures or use soil from their summer cottages. Such options cannot always be called successful.
If you buy a ready-made mixture, it is difficult to assess its quality without testing, so you will simply have to trust the manufacturer. When using land from a summer cottage, two factors should be taken into account. Firstly, the soil may be poor and depleted. Secondly, the presence of pathogens and pathogens should not be ruled out, notes Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an agronomist and landscape designer, an expert of the online publication BelNovosti.
How to Make the Perfect Soil for Tomato Seedlings Yourself
Classic recipe
You will need to take two parts of peat and one part of humus and turf. These components will form the basis of our soil, which will become the ideal environment for the development of tomatoes.
Then don't forget about adding nutrients so that the soil becomes rich and nutritious. To do this, add 250 ml of wood ash and three spoons of superphosphate.
The second option of ideal soil
To prepare the soil, take equal parts of river sand, turf and well-rotted compost. Such a base will be incredibly fertile.
As nutrients, we take 10 grams of ammonium nitrate, 20 grams of potassium salt and 50 grams of superphosphate. In such an environment, tomato seedlings will feel most comfortable.
In both cases, the fertilizers are indicated for a substrate volume of ten liters.
