Summer is hot season. We must have time to grow a rich harvest, prepare stocks for the long winter. There is no way to do without tomatoes: they are good in summer in fresh salads, they go well for juice, lecho, which is so wonderful to get from the cellar in winter. Sharing recipes for a good harvest, summer residents often remember that feeding tomato with yeast is practiced on their site. What is the effect of this procedure, let's take it apart.
Yeast Composition and Effect
Yeast is rich in proteins and carbohydrates, trace elements, as well as B vitamins and minerals. When dissolved in water, all these substances are transferred to the solution, which means that they can be freely absorbed by the roots of plants. But that is not all. Fertilizing the tomato with yeast allows you to highlight compounds that improve the development of the root system and actively support its growth due to vitamins necessary for full development and stimulate recovery processes.
At the same time, the yeast is quite viable; it tolerates drying and freezing, pressing and temperature changes. But the neighborhood with other bacteria, more aggressive, he will not survive. That is why feeding the tomato with yeast should be carried out separately from making bird droppings, manure or chopped grass.
Yeast in the garden
Yeast is an excellent growth promoter for plants. They themselves are rich in nutrients, but in addition, they are able to improve soil microflora and inhibit the development of many pathogenic microorganisms. Topping the tomato with yeast stably leads to a good result. At the same time, there are a large number of recipes used by summer residents. Below we will consider the most popular of them.
At the same time, not only adult plants are fed on beds. Fertilizing tomato seedlings with yeast ensures its good growth and development, as well as faster adaptation to open ground conditions after planting.
Raw or dry
Any yeast is suitable for gardeners, the main thing is to properly prepare them. Topping tomato seedlings with yeast is most often done using a dry instant product. To do this, take only 100 g of yeast and 10 liters of slightly warm water. To activate the yeast, you need to add 2 tablespoons of sugar. Two hours later, your sourdough is ready, now you need to bring it to working condition. To do this, dilute the workpiece to 50 liters with water. Raw baker's yeast is also often used by gardeners, but we will talk about this a bit later.
Yeast nutrition for tomato: the secret of success
This is far from a new method; several generations ago, people actively practiced feeding yeast with tomatoes at the plots. Reviews of experienced gardeners suggest that the effectiveness of this tool is no worse than that of many ready-made fertilizers, which are so many on the shelves today. After all, it is an excellent growth promoter, a biologically active supplement that can activate the internal resources of the plant. At the same time, there are certain rules according to which you can perform the procedure without risking your personal crops. The first time top dressing of tomatoes with dry yeast is performed a week after planting in the ground. After their final rooting, the procedure should be repeated. The third time it is done before flowering. Each time, the composition is identical, only the dosage changes: for a young plant, half a liter of the mixture per bush is enough, and for an adult tomato it is necessary to increase the volume to two liters.
What plants are most willing to respond to such top dressing
Almost all garden plants grow very well after such procedures. Indoor and garden flowers, fruit bushes, trees and vegetables show excellent results. Of the latter, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers react most to yeast. A leaf literally blossoms in front of our eyes and turns green, active growth begins, flowering, fruits are tied. Productivity increases dramatically. Feeding the tomato with a yeast solution is best shown. Gardeners claim that on the beds that are watered with such fertilizer, juicy, fleshy, large fruits grow , and the bushes themselves are fresh and green until late autumn. That is, until the colds you will have fresh vegetables.
Cooking yourself
Florists through trial and error practice a variety of ways to introduce yeast to the ground. This is the addition of fresh, dry or pressed yeast directly to the soil . To do this, a small depression is made in the soil into which fertilizer is laid, after which it is covered with earth. Right at the time of irrigation, the yeast dissolves and enriches the soil. Simple and convenient. But best of all, the following recipe for feeding tomatoes with yeast has recommended itself. This is a solution of fresh or dry yeast. To prepare it, you will need one part of the fertilizer and five parts of warm milk. For example, 200 g will require a liter of milk. Stir and leave to increase in volume for 2 hours. After this, the base must be diluted with ten parts of water and used for top dressing. When using dry yeast, the recipe does not change, only instead of milk you can take water, in which you need to add 60 g of sugar.
Other recipes
It does not take much time to make an effective fertilizer based on yeast. Moreover, if you don’t have yeast at hand, you can always replace them with bread, breadcrumbs or a mixture of flour and water. True, in this case, the nutrient infusion must stand so that microorganisms develop in it. To speed up the process, add some beer or kefir. Such a simple trick as feeding tomatoes with yeast in a greenhouse was used by gardeners at the dawn of the 70s, when they had to put homemade sourdough, since there was no yeast in the store. Let's see what they are and whether you can cook them at home.
Natural starter cultures
It is the fermentation process that causes the rapid growth of microorganisms, which are a natural growth activator for plants. If hops are growing on your site, do not get rid of them: cones are great for making sourdough. A glass of dry or fresh cones is placed in boiling water and boiled for about an hour. When the broth has cooled, 2 tablespoons of sugar and 4 tablespoons of flour are added to it. For two days, the mixture must be removed in a warm place. After that, 2 grated potatoes are added to the infusion and again cleaned in a warm place for a day. Ready sourdough can be diluted with ten parts of water and water the bed.
If there is no hop, then you can take ordinary wheat. A glass of grains needs to be soaked and left for a day to sprout sprouts. Now you need to grind the resulting raw materials into porridge and add 2 tablespoons of sugar and flour. You should get a mixture that looks like thick sour cream. Within 20 minutes, the mass must be boiled over low heat and left for 24 hours for acidification.
In order for the cucumbers to grow well, the following recipe will do. Take a glass of onion husks, pour a liter of water and put on the fire for one hour. When time runs out, the broth must be drained and cooled. Add 100 g of yeast and 30 g of granulated sugar, leave in a warm place for fermentation for a day. Now you can dilute the sourdough (to a full bucket) and water the cucumbers. He loves this culture and bread, so you can safely pour all the crumbs and crusts that are at hand into the sourdough.
Universal sourdough
The following top dressing of tomatoes with yeast is especially good. Reviews confirm that it is such a recipe that is optimal, gives strength to the plant, increases productivity and resistance to various diseases. An iron bucket or other capacity of 10 liters needs to be filled with bread crusts. If you have an old jam, then add it. In addition, you will need a glass of ash, sour milk and a pack of dried yeast. Fill the container with warm water and place in a warm place for souring. Twice a day, the mixture must be stirred, and after a week the yeast will be ready. Use it in the usual way, mixing with water in a proportion of one to ten. One bush will require two liters of solution.
Gardener memo
Do not forget that the yeast needs warmth, so they are not only bred in warm water, but also brought into the already warmed soil in good weather. You can not leave the leaven for a long time, each time it must be freshly prepared. It is often not recommended to feed crops with yeast, since a saturation of the earth will lead to a deterioration in the yield and death of plants. This also applies to the amount of raw material introduced into the soil: no longer means better. And finally, top dressing with yeast should be complemented by the introduction of ash. This will make up for the deficiency of calcium and potassium, which are absorbed during fermentation.
Finally
Topping up tomato and pepper seedlings with yeast is an effective and inexpensive way to get a wonderful crop in your garden. In just a few minutes you get a universal growth stimulator and a vitamin supplement. Two or three top dressings per season provide an opportunity to significantly increase the yield of your beds, as well as the quality of the resulting fruit.