Gardeners' Favorite Fertilizer: It Makes Your Tomatoes Tasteless, Small, and Hollow
If your tomatoes are growing small, tasteless and hollow, you are most likely not feeding them properly.
We will tell you which fertilizer, if used in excess, reduces tomato yields.
What you shouldn't overfeed tomatoes with
Nitrogen. Signs of its excess (tomato fattening) are: powerful stems and dark green leaves; sprouting of leaves in uncharacteristic places; overgrowth of fruit brushes; continuation of the flower brush by a stepchild; falling off of ovaries; small, tasteless and hollow fruits.
There is no need to add a lot of compost or mineral fertilizers with a high nitrogen content to the soil before planting tomatoes.
After planting, you should not water the tomatoes with herbal mash, the amount of easily digestible nitrogen in it is off the charts.
It is much easier to replenish the deficiency of this element than to eliminate its excess.
This is how you should proceed: plant the seedlings without nitrogen fertilizers, add a shovel of well-ripened compost to each hole, and then monitor the leaves.
If they have a normal green color, the seedlings develop correctly and on time, we no longer apply nitrogen fertilizers.
If there are signs of nitrogen deficiency, fertilizing with urea (carbamide) will help.
For 10 liters of water you need 20 grams of fertilizer, for each plant - a liter of solution (after watering).
If the tomatoes have become overfed, you can try to save them with potassium monophosphate, but you need to strictly follow the instructions.
