How to avoid tomato flowers and ovaries falling off: don’t be late with treatment

29.05.2023 14:56

Every gardener who has at least once tried to get a harvest of ripe and tasty tomatoes from his garden knows what a truly impressive number of obstacles one can encounter along the way.

According to the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , one of the possible problems is the falling off of ovaries and flowers.

But we wouldn’t be us if we didn’t find a way to avoid this misfortune.

We are talking about boric acid, which is used to improve the fruit set of tomatoes.

However, gardeners who tried this preparation were disappointed – the treatment did not work.

Tomatoes
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Let us hasten to explain why this could happen.

It turns out that the procedure should be carried out as soon as the first buds are noticed on the plant - in this case, the boron will begin to act just at the moment when the ovaries begin to form.

Another important point: spraying with boric solution should be done not on the flowers, but in the lower part of the bushes.

Elena Shimanovskaya Author: Elena Shimanovskaya Editor of Internet resources