Sowing tomato seeds for seedlings or buying it ready, summer residents dream of harvesting a good crop. Caring for tomatoes is not an easy task. A greenhouse will help to achieve high productivity. Responsibly approach the matter already at the stage of seed selection. High temperatures inside the greenhouse during the daytime cause disease and pests. Therefore, you should pay attention to disease-resistant hybrid varieties. Tomatoes with limited growth ripen within 3-4 months, which is great for greenhouse conditions. From each plant, you can manage to collect up to 14 brushes. Varieties with unlimited growth require more ripening time, they need to be planted in early May. Many plants may not tolerate possible frosts.
Before deciding how to care for tomatoes in a greenhouse, it is necessary to decide where it will be installed. The fruit ripening rate depends on this. Select a site free of trees and shrubs, and place a greenhouse on it in the direction from east to west. In this case, the plants will receive the maximum amount of light and heat. Avoid installing a greenhouse on the ground where potatoes grew last year because it has the same diseases as tomatoes.
How to care for tomatoes in a greenhouse? First of all, take care of a temperature of 32-33 ° C, low humidity and ventilation for seedlings. At night, the thermometer should not fall below 15 ° C. And if the temperature reaches 6-8 ° C, then the plants will hurt. At a humidity of more than 70% and a thermometer of 35 ° C, tomatoes self-pollinate, which is harmful to the crop. To ventilate around the perimeter of the greenhouse and under the roof make windows. The humidity level is controlled by constantly open small windows in the upper part of the ends of the structure. It is useful to keep large barrels of water in the greenhouse. During the day they will collect excess heat and give it away at night, and plants can be watered with warm water.
How to care for tomatoes in the greenhouse immediately after planting? Tie plants to wire trellis. To do this, drive in metal tubes every 2-2.5 m and pull on them 4-5 rows of wire, to which tomatoes will be tied as they grow. Plant seedlings in moistened wells and do not water for 1-2 weeks, especially if the weather is cool. Tomatoes do not need a lot of water until the first fruits are tied, enough so that the earth in the holes does not dry out.
How to care for tomatoes in the greenhouse when the fruits are planted? Water in sufficient quantity. With a lack of moisture, the tops can rot, and with excess, the roots die. Tomatoes are watered under the root, because if water gets on the leaves of the plant, they will hurt.
How to care for tomatoes so that they are more likely to ripen? It is necessary to engage in the formation of bushes. To do this, pinch the tops of plants at the required height, remove lateral shoots that interfere with the leaves and limit the number of fruits. The stalk can break off under the increasing load of ripening tomatoes, so the stalk must be fixed in time.
Compliance with these simple rules will necessarily lead to a plentiful harvest.