Many gardeners, who have tomato beds on their plots, make a fatal mistake in their efforts to get a good tomato harvest.
As the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh explained, it consists in the fact that farmers feel sorry for the stepchildren, especially those on which small buds have already managed to form.
Because gardeners leave them everywhere, the tomato, instead of putting all its energy into one main trunk, wastes water and nutrients to grow all the side shoots.
As a result, fruiting deteriorates, since not all flowers turn into ovaries.
Some of the buds simply fall off, and those fruits that do form grow small, form and ripen more slowly.
Often, mistakes are made in the process of removing leaves. Remember: you can’t tear off all the leaves in one fell swoop.
Instead, remove them gradually, 1-2 leaves per week.
Also, don't pluck off all the leaves until the fruits start to turn brown. Wait until the tomato forms a cluster and the fruits start to turn brown, and then you can start removing all the leaves up to that cluster, and so gradually get to the very top.
