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Don't Make This Mistake of Short-sighted Gardeners: You'll Get the Worst Tomato Harvest in a Greenhouse
17.11.2024 13:06
It often happens that inexperienced or forgetful gardeners make a mistake when growing tomatoes, which results in a meager harvest.
We are talking about fattening the bushes, namely: gross mistakes are made when planting plants.
In this case, it is important to notice in time that the bushes of the crop grow extremely strongly when the color of the fleshy leaves changes (they become bright green).
Incorrect fertilizers
If the problem is not solved, crop yields will suffer.
Therefore, it is recommended to pay attention to the unnatural thickness of the stems, as well as their excessively rapid growth.
Even if fruits appear, they will be pale and their size will not change for a very long time.
What mistake does a gardener make that causes tomatoes to become overfed? Frequent fertilization with fertilizers containing a large amount of nitrogen.
In such a situation, you need to stop “treating” plants with this type of fertilizer (weeds, mullein, bird droppings, some mineral fertilizers with a large amount of nitrogen).
In order to normalize the process, you can use products that stimulate fruit formation (“Early Ripening”, “Bud”, “Ovary”, etc.).
Greenhouse
Another reason for fattening may be excessively humid air in the greenhouse. And this happens when plants are watered very frequently.
It is better to water tomatoes less often, but abundantly.
In this case, we change the soil moisture schedule, constantly monitoring the humidity and air temperature.
Good ventilation in the greenhouse will also help reduce humidity, which is achieved by installing additional vents in the right place.
The third reason for fattening is the heat in the greenhouse (+30 degrees and above), which leads to active growth of leaves and shoots, which does not allow the ovaries to form normally.
The optimum temperature in the greenhouse: during the day – from +22 to +25 degrees, at night – from +17 to +19 degrees.
Landing
The fourth reason for fattening is planting individual tomato varieties too close to each other.
In this case, the problem is not so easy to solve. And, by the way, it is this mistake that often leads to the worst harvest.
You will have to remove additional shoots, leaving only the most productive ones, hoping to get at least a minimal harvest by the end of the season.
For reference
Tomato is an annual or perennial herbaceous plant, a species of the genus Solanum of the Solanaceae family.
