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Folk Fertilizers for Tomatoes: 5 Ways to Increase the Yield
19.06.2023 06:20
Natural folk fertilizers for tomatoes have proven themselves to be effective and safe, increasing yields.
With the help of “grandmother’s” fertilizer recipes, you can increase the flowering of tomato bushes, achieve early ripening and abundance of fruits, long-term storage of the harvested crop, and also prevent fungal diseases.
What folk methods and when can you feed tomatoes, this is discussed in detail in the article.
Iodine supplementation
Iodine is useful not only for the human body, but also for members of the nightshade family.
The chemical element helps to speed up the process of fruit ripening, and therefore is most effective as a top dressing during the period of their formation and ripening. Also, top dressing the soil with this chemical element helps to strengthen the immunity of bushes, which resists the spread of late blight.
To make the solution, add 5 drops of iodine to a bucket of water, stir and immediately apply under the roots of the bushes, at a rate of approximately 2 liters per specimen. It is not advisable to leave the solution for storage, as the substance evaporates.
Ash
Valuable organic matter, fertilizer that improves the soil structure, its microbiome, feeds plants with nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and an even longer list of essential elements. Ash is universal, and therefore it can be used all season long.
It is suitable for application in dry form under bushes with subsequent loosening of the soil. And also in the form of a solution, for which you need to mix a glass of burnt raw material in a bucket of water and pour it under the roots. If you add laundry soap to this solution, you can carry out foliar feeding. Soap will help the composition to fix on the tops.
Yeast
Fertilizer made from baker's yeast is a source of amino acids, vitamins and bacteria that improve the composition of the soil microbiome. But they are mainly used as a natural growth stimulant a couple of weeks after planting seedlings in the ground.
To improve the quality of tomatoes, you need to mix a packet of dry yeast in 5 liters of water, add a couple of spoons of sugar, leave for several hours and water the tomato plantings. But it is important to remember that yeast feeds on potassium and calcium, depleting the soil. Accordingly, after a week, you need to carry out appropriate fertilizing so as not to disturb the balance of elements in the soil.
Chicken manure
Organic matter of animal origin is a storehouse of phosphorus and nitrogen. Experienced gardeners remind that chicken manure is too poisonous and can burn out the root system of plants. Before using it, you need to thoroughly water the bed with plain water and only then add the infusion between the rows.
For the latter, you need to mix a bucket of water with 2 kg of manure, leave for about a week until it darkens. The finished solution must be diluted with about 0.5 l per bucket of water and added to the soil. Due to its aggressiveness, the fertilizer can be used on adult bushes in the second half of the growing season.
Mullein
A common fertilizer for tomatoes, but used mainly in a mixture with other organic matter. Half a bucket of mullein should be poured with a bucket of water, the container should be covered with a lid and left in a warm place for the fermentation process for a week.
After the specified time, the infusion must be diluted with clean water, add ash, biohumus, compost or any other organic matter and apply it in small quantities under the bushes, approximately 0.5 l for young specimens and 1 l for adults.
Fertilizing is most useful in the first half of the growing season, as nitrogen dominates in the composition.
Fertilizing tomatoes is an easy way to achieve a juicy, aromatic and healthy harvest, protect the fruits from numerous diseases and extend their shelf life.
