5 Mistakes That Will Ruin Tomato Seedlings: Advice for Beginner Gardeners

A few trifles can ruin tomato seedlings. It's not so bad if pests or diseases are to blame.

Sometimes the summer resident himself makes mistakes, after which he has to bite his elbows.

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told what mistakes ruin tomato seedlings.

Top dressing

Even when forming a mixture for planting seedlings or transplanting, you need to think sensibly. Excess fertilizers can turn the soil into an "explosive mixture."

In the best case, the seedlings will start to grow wildly and will not have enough space. Worse, if the roots get burned or cannot absorb nutrients due to chemical reactions.

Picking

Before picking, you need to moisten the soil, and do this no later than 2-3 days before the procedure.

Otherwise, due to the heavy and dense wet soil, the roots can be damaged if you water the seedlings a couple of hours before picking.

Deadlines

There is no need to rush to plant seedlings. In each case, the development of the plant proceeds individually due to the fact that the temperature in the apartment is different, there is more or less light, the soil is better or worse, and so on.

Therefore, gardeners focus on the appearance of the first two full leaves about 2-3 cm long.

Watering

This is a well-known mistake that concerns any seedlings, not just tomatoes. Overwatering is fraught with the appearance of fungus, parasites, and other pathogens.

Therefore, for seedlings you need to choose containers with drainage holes.

Light

The seedlings are not exposed to sunlight immediately after picking, but only after 5-6 days. It is important that the root system recovers after all manipulations.

During this time, it is advisable to keep the plants in the shade.

Earlier we talked about when to sow sweet peppers for seedlings.