How to care for tomatoes in a greenhouse from planting to harvesting

Proper care of tomatoes should include timely and sufficient watering, constant loosening of the soil, fertilizing the soil with minerals and organic substances. If necessary, the bushes are tied up, spud up, remove excess plants from the beds, and also treat the plants from harmful insects and various diseases. But first of all you need to be right choose tomatoes for the greenhouse.

Proper watering

To properly care for tomatoes in the greenhouse from planting to harvest (video), you need to properly moisten the ground where the tomatoes grow, as these plants really do not like the excess moisture in the garden, but it can be difficult to survive the drought, which affects the taste qualities of fruits. It is best to simply monitor the soil, if it is already sufficiently dried, then you need to moderate the tomatoes, in some cases it is enough to water such plants no more than twice a week, when it rains, you can water a little less. When the tomatoes undergo drought, young ovaries begin to fall off, and if the fruits grow, they have very small sizes that are not typical for the variety.

Getting the right lure

It is very important in the care of tomatoes in the greenhouse from planting to harvest (photo) to carry out the feeding of plants, since the quantity and quality of the future crop will depend on this. It is ideal to fertilize at least three times during the whole season, although experienced summer residents recommend fertilizing the soil at least every two or three weeks. Various types of additives are used as fertilizers, for example, a solution of fifteen grams of ammonium nitrate, thirty grams of potassium chloride, with the addition of fifty grams of superphosphate is perfect, all this is sent to a bucket filled with water and stirred.

This fertilizer produces a little more potassium and phosphorus than nitrogen, which allows the foliage to develop to a normal degree, but the fruits will grow perfectly, thanks to potassium and phosphorus. It is also worth constantly adding magnesium and boron to the soil, while boron is used during the flowering period of plants, it helps flowers not to crumble from the plant. To carry out such feeding tomatoes in the greenhouse, you need to take a powder of boric acid about ten grams, dilute it in a bucket of water, and then spray the leafy part of the tomatoes with the resulting solution.

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Tying bushes

Tying is a very important step in caring for tomatoes in the greenhouse from planting to harvest, pinching is done just after the garter of the bushes. Since tomatoes grow in a greenhouse, garter is done immediately after the plants are sufficiently rooted and begin to grow actively. The pegs are driven to a depth of at least forty centimeters in the ground so that they can withstand pressure from the side of the bush during active fruiting, with each peg being ten centimeters from the stem. Each peg can have a height of one to one and a half meters, for higher bushes it is worth immediately making the stakes longer.

Shrubs are also earthed, in which case it is necessary to carry out the procedure only a couple of times during the whole season, since in the greenhouse wind and rain do not affect the created holes. It is constantly necessary to remove excess weeds from the beds, they interfere with the normal development of the plant, and can also spread harmful insects and various types of diseases.

The rules for forming a tomato bush

When caring for tomatoes in a greenhouse from planting to harvest, it is very important to carry out stepsoning on time. In fact, stepchildren can not be removed, since they do not harm the plants themselves, but at the same time, if many extra twigs leave the trunks, the plant's fertility will be significantly reduced. But not all shrubs need to create the right bush, since some plants have only one trunk and very neat twigs. It is worth mentioning that small bushes with small fruits must necessarily form, that is, it is necessary to pinch the plant, in this case you can leave no more than two trunks of tomatoes in the northern regions, and no more than four trunks of plants growing in the southern territory of our country . Do not forget about what you need to know how to water tomatoes after planting in a greenhouse.

It is not at all difficult to form a bush, if there is a need to leave only one stem, then it is enough for the gardener to remove all the processes that form on this stem, it is very important that they do not reach more than four centimeters in length, otherwise it will be pointless to carry out the removal. It is also necessary to completely eliminate the lowest stepchildren, if they are not removed, then the tomato plant can completely discard the first ovaries or first flowers, which will lead to the complete destruction of the future crop.

When the bush is formed from two stems, it is enough to leave only one shoot coming from the side of the plant, usually it appears not lower, but exactly next to the first brush of the bush. In addition, each stepson cannot be torn out or cut to the root, such removal can lead to the formation of new processes, it is best to simply break the stepson with his hands, leaving at the same time about one centimeter from the process. When the shoots just started to grow, it is only necessary to cut off the ends with a sharp blade so that stepsons do not continue their growth. In this case, stepsoning has to be carried out constantly, since new shoots can begin to grow during the entire period of growth of the bush.