When growing tomatoes, you can not do without fertilizing. Gardeners have a wide choice: mineral and biological fertilizers, growth stimulants. Many prescriptions with the use of pharmacy drugs: iodine, ammonia, aspirin. A good fertilizer for tomatoes are crackers.
Content
About the benefits of crackers
To prepare a nutritious infusion, crackers made from any yeast bread (white, gray) are suitable. It is yeast that positively affects plants. With regular use, they stimulate the growth of roots and aerial parts of plants.
Gardeners using dry bread infusion note its benefits for vegetable and flower crops:
- plants actively go on growth already 3 days after root dressing;
- vegetables can more easily tolerate stress caused by worsening weather (heat, cooling, lingering rain);
- Tomatoes improve immunity and taste of fruits, and increase productivity.
The secret of bread fertilizer
With root top dressing, beneficial bacteria actively multiply in the ground, which, absorbing trace elements from the soil (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium), transform them into compounds more accessible to plants. Thanks to this, the nutrition of vegetables is more intense.
They do not like bread kvass, garlic, onions, potatoes.
Tomatoes belong to those vegetable crops that respond well to yeast nutrition. To achieve the result, they are fertilized at least 3 times:
- during bud formation for the first time;
- the second time after 2 weeks (at the beginning of the formation of the ovaries);
- the third time in 2-3 weeks.
Tomato dressing for breadcrumbs
To increase tomato yield by 25%, improve the taste of fruits, use old bread. Rules for the use of leaven:
- with root dressing, the effect of the action of yeast is manifested if the soil is warm;
- First, the main watering is carried out, then root dressing with infusion;
- the best time for root dressing is evening from 19-00 to 20-00;
- adding ash, enhance the effect of the infusion.
How to make fertilizer
Gardeners fertilize tomatoes with infusion prepared only from dried bread, or use additional additives in the form of nettles, fresh cow manure. Supplements increase the concentration of nutrients in the liquid.
Dry Bread Fertilizer
To prepare 10 liters of nutrient liquid, they take a large plastic bucket, put 2 kg of stale bread in it. They take warm water (30 ° C), pour it to the middle of the bucket. It will take a load - a lid of a smaller diameter than a bucket. Rusks should be completely immersed in water.
Week infusion works, wanders. On day 7 it is filtered. The volume of the resulting liquid is adjusted to 10 liters. After which the leaven is ready for use - you can water the seedlings and adult tomatoes. When fertilizing an adult, a few drops of iodine are added to the sourdough.
Nettle crackers for tomatoes
The bucket is filled with 1 part of dry peels, 1 part of chopped nettle, warm water. They put oppression so that the leaven does not emerge. The bucket is tightly closed with a lid, set to roam. Kvass on dry bread and nettles is ready in a week.
The extracts remaining from the sourdough are not discarded. Put them in a compost pile.
Zhizh express. It has a high concentration of nutrients, so it is used in diluted form, adding 2 liters per bucket of water. Tomatoes are watered with bread and nettle sourdough during the formation of the ovary.
Dry bread with mullein
During the period of active growth of tomatoes use infusion of mullein, hay, stale bread. The fluid is nutritious, the tomatoes from it grow by leaps and bounds. On a bucket take:
- Mullein 3 kg;
- crackers 2 kg;
- hay to fill the remaining volume.
The mixture is poured with warm water, insist 2 weeks. When the fermentation process stops, the liquid is filtered and used to fertilize the tomatoes, adding 1 liter per bucket of water. ½ liter of fertilizer is consumed per bush.
How to fertilize tomatoes
Crackling infusion fertilize young seedlings, combine with watering, spend 2 times a week. Top dressing begins 2 weeks after a dive, finish before transplanting into open ground.
Use leaven prepared from 1 kg of crackers and 5 liters of water. Insist her 2 days. In water for irrigation (8 l) add no more than 1 liter. Thanks to such fertilizer seedlings, the tomato is completely ready for transplanting, quickly adapts to a constant place.
Detailed nutrient application schedule
Feeding with infusion of crackers is carried out after complete rooting of seedlings. From the day of its transplantation, at least 2 weeks pass. The fact that the seedlings have taken root is evident in the color of the tops and in the new leaves.
1 glass is poured under each bush, this volume is enough for a young plant. Top dressing under the root is done in the evening, seedlings are pre-watered well. On depleted soils, bread crust fertilizer is used once every 10 days, fertilizing with watering is combined, and 1 liter is spent on each plant.
Tomatoes growing on fertile soil, fertilized in autumn with superphosphate, potassium nitrate, humus, are fed two more times:
- When ovaries appear in the first brush. An infusion of crackers with nettles or with mullein is prepared, diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10. 1 liter is poured under each bush.
- Fertilize again after 2 weeks. In a ready-made infusion of crackers (10 l) add 1 glass of ash, mix, let stand for 12 hours, pour 1-2 l of tomato on each bush.
Professional Tips
Experienced vegetable growers never use bread infusion to feed sick, unrooted tomatoes. For beginner gardeners, their tips may come in handy:
- tomatoes growing in the shade are watered less often and less abundantly;
- Do not feed tomatoes in the middle of the day, if the weather is sunny, hot;
- Bread sourdough brings more benefits to tomatoes growing on alkaline soil;
- in the sourdough from crackers you need to add ash, 1 glass per bucket.
Reviews
Irina
My mom taught me to use crackers to feed tomatoes. Her tomatoes have always been sweet, delicious. In winter, we dry the bread, and in spring, when transplanting seedlings into open ground, we soak it, put it in each hole.
Tatyana
The second year I grow tomatoes on breadcrumbs. For the first year, a handful of crackers were poured into each hole, poured water and planted seedlings in this bump. Harvest pleased with the quantity, size, taste. In the second year, in addition to crackers, added ash, also a handful. The harvest was excellent.
Low-growing tomatoes, without pinching: 5 of the most delicious varieties
Why tomato seedlings grow poorly
We grow a tomato in a shell
Growing tomatoes without watering according to the method of Kazarin