Feed your tomatoes with this: the fruits will grow incredibly sweet

01.02.2024 01:30

Any gardener who grows tomatoes expects to obtain fruits with high sugar content.

It is unpleasant when the result of long-term care of a garden crop is a harvest of watery and tasteless vegetables.

However, a person who feeds the plant correctly is unlikely to encounter any unpleasant consequences.

The use of certain fertilizers is a guarantee of obtaining very sweet fruits.

So, what kind of fertilizers should be emphasized when growing tomatoes? Recommendations were shared by the expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", scientist-agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .

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How to feed tomatoes to increase sugar content

The chances of forming sweet fruits will increase significantly when using fertilizers that contain any of the following components: potassium, manganese, zinc.

Good options: infusion of unburned wood residues, potassium humate, zinc-containing fertilizers, a combination of manganese sulfate and boric acid.

Earlier, the expert explained what needs to be done to prevent seedlings from overgrowing.

Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti