Two wise ways to grow tomatoes

There are two neighbors. One of them is our friend. Both of them grow tomatoes in a very original way. First, I will describe the method of a friend, I like it!

Wireworm protection

Each vegetable garden has its own trouble, a friend has a wireworm. There is a lot of it. Therefore, you have to plant tomatoes in boxes. Regular vegetable crates:

Growing principle:

• Stationary greenhouse (greenhouse)
• 2 layers of newspapers are placed on the bed under the boxes
• Boxes WITHOUT BOTTOM
• The walls are lined with polyethylene
• The bottomless box is placed on a bed covered with newspapers and filled with just two layers: the bottom layer is grass trimmed with a trimmer, the top is a compost bucket. Caution! If you want to try planting this way, check how the tomato will grow in your compost.
• The compost is sifted onto a large piece of linoleum and carefully sorted out of the wireworm, the caught insects are thrown into a bucket of water
• Seedlings, as usual, are grown first on the windowsill.
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• She waddles into a cozy apartment-box at the beginning of April.
• The tomato in the box is mulched with peat.
• The greenhouse is covered with a film, in the afternoon the film is removed.
• When the seedlings get stronger, they root through the newspaper. Wireworm is terrible only for young seedlings
• This design remains unchanged until harvesting before winter.

In autumn

• The bush is cut and sent to a heap, burned in the spring.
• The box is raised, a lump with roots remains. These clods are taken out to the beds. In the spring, large roots are harvested, the rest of the earth is dug up, it is very good for carrots.
• The ground in the greenhouse is dug up and covered with a film to retain moisture in winter.

Another Neighbor's Early Tomatoes

Retells a friend. I do not go to that neighbor, I cannot specify the details. I think that not foam, but EPS is used. But the point is clear.

This neighbor was interested in growing many early tomatoes.

• He bought 50 twenty-liter buckets, drilled holes in them to release excess moisture.
• I laid 50 mm foam plastic and covered it with a black film (I am bad about the idea of ​​covering the soil with such heaters). This is the floor for the tomato buckets.
• The buckets are filled with purchased peat soil. What he adds to it is his secret.
• So, a tomato bush grows in each bucket. They feed him "all kinds of chemistry"

It turns out a lot, very large and very early tomatoes on each bush.

Taste? Plastic…

And a friend has a real taste of tomatoes, superb!

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