How to feed the tomatoes in August to ripen more quickly and more
Welcome growers!
By August (especially in this weather in Central band!) Harvest of tomatoes a day fizzles after day. This is a natural process: it becomes colder, the sun shines less. But 3 literate feeding prolong fruiting tomatoes and accelerate their maturation.
Now, at the end of the summer, I advise you to go to foliar feeding. Because the fertilizing the roots will last longer than the dressing on the sheet. As long as the roots soak up nutrients... It is better to spray a hothouse plant: foliar application will work faster and have time to perform the intended target ✅
Recipe nutrient cocktail for the "late" tomatoes
August fertilizer for tomatoes - without chemistry! Because tomatoes are ripening on the bush, and better not to risk once again. Means accelerator consists of three simple ingredients:
- wood ash. Fertilizing natural product into the hands of the gardener. The structure includes a lot of calcium and potassium. Potassium helps to quickly tie tomatoes and nalitsya. Calcium strengthens the plant and fights apical rot.
- Iodine. Tomatoes like iodine and it is a fact! ☝ trace element and a positive effect on the quantity / quality yield (10%), and some protection against Phytophthora which rages in late summer.
- Boric acid. Another trace mineral that directly stimulates the formation and development of the ovaries.
The ingredients are easy to obtain. With ash clear. Iodine for peanuts sold in every pharmacy. Boric acid in powder form exists in the same or counter direction of Agriculture.
How to cook
Recipe for the nutrient solution for the August / reinforcing tomato processing:
1. Dilute 1.5 L wood ash in hot water of 10 liters. For convenience, you can mix the ashes into the first half of the bucket, and then just pour the remaining time before the desired number. Wait for the cool down.
2. Add 7 drops of iodine. I immediately stood up on end hair, the other day when I read the recommendation pour a bubble! It is foolish to expect that increasing the number of vegetable growers will increase the benefit.
And burn the plants can be wise. Especially because of the concentration of foliar application of any fertilizer always do less than to feed the roots.
3. Separately have to tinker only with boric acid. The catch is that the crystals are poorly soluble in cold water. Simply stir half sachet (5 g), first in a small amount of warm water. When the powder is completely dissolved, pour the mash into the main bin.
4. Once again stir well, it is desirable to filter through the cloth or gauze - coarse fractions remain after ash. Pour cooked nutritious cocktail into a spray bottle and process tomatoes in the greenhouse. It is possible and the old-fashioned broom))
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