DEEP PLANTING OF TOMATOES IN THE HOLES - MY REVIEWS

I have been growing vegetables for over 40 years, but my main hobby is tomatoes. The yields are stable and excellent. For example, last year from 80 bushes - 40 tall and 40 undersized - I removed 30 buckets of truly gorgeous fruits! And I feel that this is not the limit at all. The tomato collection consists of Octopus, President, Roksolana, Batyania, Proper size, Honey Spas, Orange Giant, Honey Drop, Raspberry Giant and Pink Honey.

I always buy seeds and soil for seedlings. In late February - early March, I soak the seed in clean water for 10-12 hours, take it out and put it in a dark pink potassium permanganate for 20 minutes, then pour it over with cold boiled water. I put the seeds in cloth knots, which I put in a glass jar and put in the refrigerator overnight (who has a private house, a jar of seeds can be immersed in a snowdrift at night).

During the day I keep them on the table in a room at a temperature of 25-27 ° - and so on for five to six days. After this treatment, the seeds germinate together.

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Sowing is carried out in egg cartons, placing two or three seeds in each cell. I do this on the waning moon in the "productive" signs of the zodiac - Taurus, Libra, Scorpio, Cancer and Capricorn. In this case, the roots grow well, and with the growing moon, forces go from the roots to the stems. Seedlings appear in two to four days. When the loops appear, I immediately put the seedlings on the window, where the temperature is kept within 12-15 ° (we have our own heating - we can regulate it).

I dive in the phase of cotyledonous leaves: at this time, the root systems are not yet developed and cannot be damaged.

The procedure looks like this: after abundant watering, using a teaspoon, I remove the sprouts from the cells and transfer them to glasses (500 ml), half filled with earth. And I also put everything on the window, even if the bright sun is shining.

Watering after that I spend very moderate. I remove excess sprouts with scissors. After three weeks, I begin to water the seedlings once a week (alternately) with onion peel infusion and solutions of a biological product and manganese. I use ash throughout the growing season. I will definitely loosen! I plant seedlings in a greenhouse and open ground under a temporary shelter from May 1 to May 3 (inside the greenhouse I additionally cover the bed with non-woven material).

I must say that where I am going to plant tomatoes, in the fall I sow rye, which at the beginning of the new season is already starting to turn green. Before planting seedlings, I remove it and lay it out in the planting holes, lightly sprinkling it with earth. Then I bring in 1 tbsp. l. superphosphate and potassium sulfate (I do not use potassium chloride), I mix it with the soil and plant the seedlings strictly vertically.

I will dwell on this point especially. In 1985, the famous gardener Igor Mikhailovich Maslov proposed a new method of growing tomatoes, placing not only the roots, but also 2/3 of the stems in the holes when planting, filling them with soil (10-12 cm layer). The method was immediately taken up by many summer residents. I tried it too, but refused this method.

The fact is that the roots growing on the sprinkled parts of the stems were flawed and only took away food from the main roots, which led to a delay in fruiting. I decided that it would be better to try to grow strong, healthy seedlings than using the above technique. And I don’t regret it.

A week after planting, I make a "trough" for the bushes, which are clearly visible in some photographs. During the growing season, these "troughs" are constantly filled with grass, ash and earth, and as a result, the roots receive in full all the substances necessary for them.

And a little more about processing. Once, before flowering, I spray the bushes with a solution of copper sulfate, and as soon as the ovaries appear, I use a boric acid solution (about 8 g per 10 liters of water). From time to time I use a weak potassium permanganate and garlic infusion (250 g of squeezed cloves per 10 liters of water). I add nitrogen only after setting the fruit, and during the fruiting period - potassium, micronutrient fertilizers and herbal infusion, made mainly from nettle. I constantly remove my stepsons and leaves. I pick the fruits when they turn brown, i.e. in the middle of July. In this case, the productivity of the bushes increases by one and a half times, because the remaining fruits and ovaries begin to grow faster.

I wish you all good harvests!

It is quite possible that the opinion of the author about the progressive method of planting tomato seedlings that has become fashionable will seem very controversial to some gardeners. But it has the right to be. And at the same time there is a new topic for discussion.

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2 Review (s)

Egor Krasnov, Tver
19/03/2021 (17:35) #

I read about an interesting way of planting tomato seedlings. As soon as the ground thaws, the soil in the greenhouse needs to be dug up, holes with a volume of half a bucket should be dug. Inside, lay fresh manure on a shovel, fill it with chopped young nettles to the top. Close with foil. Mix the contents of the wells every three days.
Two weeks before planting seedlings, the holes need to be opened, add 1 tablespoon to each. superphosphate, mix with peat. Planting tomatoes with a clod of earth. The method was very interesting, but I'm afraid that such a mixture will burn the roots ...

- OOO "Sad"
  19/03/2021 (17:35) #
  
  - The described growing method is called a "steam pit". You should not be afraid that the roots will be burned, since a pair of shovels of manure and mineral fertilizers will not be able to warm up the soil very much. For example, I practice this method. Under each row of plants I dig a trench wide and deep on a shovel bayonet.
  
  I put any organic matter there (manure, straw, sawdust, peat, household waste), sprinkle it with a complex mineral fertilizer and moisten it a little with water. The organic layer should be within 20-25 cm, and a handful of fertilizers per 1 running meter of the trench is enough. After that, I fall asleep with the dug earth. After a week or two, I plant seedlings. Organic matter begins to give heat not only to the root system, but also to the inner space of the greenhouse. In such greenhouses with biofuel, in cloudy weather and at night, it is much warmer than in ordinary ones.