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How and when to feed tomato seedlings after planting in the ground: help cope with stress
10.05.2024 22:25
Gardeners are constantly told that any interference in the life of a plant results in stress for it.
Especially when transplanting seedlings from the comfortable conditions of a city apartment into open ground in a country garden. Here it will be important to support the plant, that is, feed it.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to feed tomatoes after transplanting them to the beds.
Why is this important?
Stress has a negative impact on all living things, including plants.
If you leave the seedlings after transplanting without feeding, they will take longer to take root, may become weak, will get sick, will bloom later and will not produce the best harvest.
You can choose from organic, mineral and folk supplements.
Time for feeding seedlings
After transplanting into the soil, tomatoes are fed from 14 to 21 days.
A sure sign that the plant has taken root in a new place is the seedling’s strengthened leaves and stem.
The first to be applied are nitrogen fertilizers with potassium and phosphorus additives. Fertilizers containing calcium, boron, magnesium and manganese, iron, and sulfur will not be superfluous.
At this stage, you should not use only nitrogen or any of the above elements. It is better to add complex additives. Most often, gardeners use nitrophoska.
How to proceed
Dissolve 25 grams of ammonium nitrate, 40 grams of superphosphate and 15 grams of potassium sulfate in 10 liters of water, or dissolve 1 tablespoon of nitrophoska in the same amount of water.
You can collect and chop up the weeds, pour water over them, let them sit and ferment for a week, dilute with water 1:20 and use for watering.
And another recipe is to dissolve 10 g of dry yeast and 2 tbsp. sugar in 250 ml of warm water. Let it sit for 2 hours, dilute in 10 l of water and use for feeding.
Earlier we talked about what can be planted next to cucumbers .
