As soon as the warm days have come, it's time to go to the country with seedlings, which you grew up at home and previously hardened on the balcony. A couple of weeks before the trip, cover the greenhouse with plastic wrap or place a polycarbonate structure. Dig the earth inside it, apply organic fertilizers and mark the place where you plan to plant tomatoes. Grandmothers know how to plant tomato seedlings , so let's trust their many years of experience and carry out work on the technology of our beloved relatives.
There are a lot of landing technologies, but it is worth considering the peculiarities of the climate in which you live, so the advice in this article will be given to residents of the Moscow Region and everyone who lives on the same parallel with them. For the convenience of planting a heat-loving culture, prepare holes half a bayonet deep. The distance between them is 35-40 cm. Do not look that your seedlings are still small. It will quickly grow, leaves will be distributed in breadth, so there will not be enough space for one crop if you regret the extra area.
You can, of course, read books where scientists advise how to plant tomato seedlings, but there is no guarantee that your varieties are the very hybrids that doctors of science fussed with . If you like to grow tomatoes in a rovich, then do not forget to add nitrofoska or urea into it, sprinkle it with plenty of ash, add manure rotted over the winter, and pour “pie filling” with warm water from the barrel that your children so carefully tarred.
All villagers know how to plant tomato seedlings, so the preparatory work is carried out at dawn, while it is cool in the greenhouse. During the day they tinker in the garden, but in the evening, when the sun soon goes beyond the horizon, they begin a new phase of work.
If your tomatoes are grown in 1 stalk, then you can plant them against each other, leaving a distance between the trunks of 70-75 cm. Double-stalked crops require 60 cm between each other and the same between the beds. Such a layout will save you from further questioning about how to plant tomato seedlings, because such numbers are considered optimal for large greenhouses.
If you grew green shoots in plastic cups, then before dragging a tomato from them, pour plenty of water at room temperature with water and, turning the “pot” downside down, squeeze the plant, holding the trunk with your hand. Now start planting in the holes.
It requires special skill, so follow the actions of the grandmother and carefully listen to her comments on how to plant seedlings. You see that she does not lower the plant vertically into the ground, but tilts it slightly towards herself? This is done so that a broad root system is formed, otherwise the plant will break under its weight and under the weight of the fruit. For the convenience of watering, you can use plastic bottles without caps at the neck. Put them into the ground next to the tomato bush and water not the entire area on which the weeds will also grow, but fill only the free space of the bottle.
How to plant tomato seedlings, you already know. Now it’s worth talking about the microclimate in the greenhouse. Tomatoes perfectly tolerate moist soil, but increased humidity is deadly for them. Phytophthora will instantly climb into an unventilated space and in a week can ruin both young shoots and the entire crop, so there should be two doors in the greenhouse that are desirable to be kept open all day.