The best way to improve the health and composition of the soil in the garden is to sow green manure. They say that in this case, it is also necessary to follow the rules of crop rotation.
Therefore, before planting tomato seedlings in the beds, think about what green manure crops need to be sown now.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to make a choice.
Green manure for tomatoes
In this case, you can choose from available and unpretentious crops.
It has been noted that gardeners harvest the best tomato crop from beds where mustard (white), vetch (hairy) or phacelia grew before tomatoes. Sometimes they sow oats.
White mustard
Mustard will help if your tomato bed was affected by late blight last year.
In addition, the plant loosens the soil well, is not liked by a number of harmful insects and significantly improves the quality of the soil.
Phacelia
These are not the cheapest seeds, but this plant will help gardeners who have to periodically deacidify the soil.
In general, sowing phacelia is the best investment in the future tomato harvest.
Vika shaggy
It is almost the main supplier of biological mass and nitrogen to the soil. Summer residents cautiously say that after this, tomato plants will grow and bear fruit even without additional feeding.
When to sow
The main thing is to finish sowing no later than two to three weeks before transplanting the seedlings into the beds.
After the green manure grows to a height of 20-30 cm, it is mowed and incorporated into the soil.
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Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
