In spring, you can have time to sow the entire garden with green manure. Summer residents can choose a universal crop and select an individual approach to each plant.
This is what experienced gardeners recommend doing before transplanting tomato seedlings.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told us which green manure crops to sow before transplanting tomatoes into the ground.
There is no need to talk about the benefits of green manure.
They improve the soil, displace weeds, fight pests and saturate the soil with essential nutrients.
Having decided on the location of the tomato bed, you can choose a suitable green manure crop before transplanting the tomatoes.
What to sow
There is an opinion that tomatoes will grow better and bear fruit more abundantly if the bed is first sown with phacelia, lupine or mustard.
Gardeners also practice sowing oats.
When to sow
In any of these cases, sowing is carried out no later than 2 weeks before planting the seedlings in the ground.
During this time, the seedlings can grow to 20-30 cm, and they will need to be mown down and buried in the soil.
Growing tomatoes in a bed with green manure is also practiced.
This method protects the soil from overheating and drying out, makes it looser, and protects tomatoes from diseases and pests.
Earlier we talked about what to soak seeds in before sowing for seedlings.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
