Why Gardeners Need Tomato Tops: Another Way to Benefit from the Harvest
Thrifty gardeners never throw away tomato tops. The only exception is when the plant is affected by diseases.
Experience shows that the tops can be useful even after there is not a single tomato left on them.
According to popular advice, after harvesting tomatoes, the remaining seedlings can be crushed and this mass can be used to protect garden crops from rodents.
The plant can also cope with unpleasant odors in a country toilet.
There is another option for using tomato tops.
How to proceed
You should collect the remaining vegetation from the tomato bed and let it dry for several days.
Then all that remains is to pile it up and burn it, and use the resulting ash as fertilizer.
Gardeners claim that, based on its characteristics, tomato ash is a more valuable product than wood ash.
It contains a lot of micro- and macroelements, which are also easily absorbed.
Tomato ash is added to the soil in the fall and then incorporated into the soil, both in the vegetable garden and in the orchard.
