September has arrived, and many summer residents have already managed to harvest their first tomato crops.
But now they ripen more slowly, not to mention the threat of late blight.
If you want to harvest another crop, it is recommended to use some tricks.
Let's see what the expert of the online publication "Belnovosti" and agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh thinks about this.
What can you do with tomatoes
These are the simple tricks.
- Turn the plants towards the sun. This will help the fruits ripen faster. Make sure that the tomatoes are exposed to as much sunlight as possible.
- Remove leaves that block the sun from the tomatoes. As you already understood, this will speed up ripening.
- Pinch the tops of the plants. This will free up additional resources for ripening.
- You can put a transparent bag on the fruits, which will speed up ripening even more – the fruits will ripen in 3 days.
- Spray the plant with a mixture of iodine, potassium permanganate and tomato paste with salt - this will activate the production of lycopene.
