Bugs that ruin tomato seedlings. I understood from my own experience and from now on I do not allow

Fiery tomato hello, fellow gardeners!

I can't even imagine my dacha without tomatoes in a greenhouse. Soon I will start sowing tomato seeds for seedlings and growing young green seedlings in order to harvest sweet fruits in the summer. And how can I not remember about the annoying mistakes that I made several years ago, at the dawn of my dacha life.

Avoid them - take advantage of my experience

The first two years of working with tomato seedlings, I made the same mistake: I sowed too early. End of January in the Northwest. As a result, my plants turned out to be elongated, frail and, on top of that, overgrown. Carrying them in a car is a "pleasure", and the reason for everything is the desire to grow the earliest harvest, bad advice from the Internet and a lack of sun.

Now I sow tomatoes for seedlings in the second half of February. I definitely pay attention to the rate of ripening of the variety. For example, I plant the so-called late tomatoes on February 14-15. And the sowing of early-ripening tomatoes falls exactly at the very end of the month.

Since I have already started talking about the lack of sun, I will immediately write about the lighting. Tomatoes are devoted lovers of sunlight. Being on a dark windowsill will "ditch" even the most potentially strong plants.

• I always try to put the seedling cups on the sunniest windowsill. In my case, this is the southwest.
• But over time, it became mandatory to supplement the wards with lamps. I take luminescent or LED. Because the weather in our region is such that the whole March may be cloudy. And in any case, a sun-loving tomato will be delighted with attention: under the lamp, seedlings grow more actively and become more stocky, with a strong and reliable stem.

In principle, many summer residents successfully grow without supplementary lighting. Which option do you choose? Yes, here, of course, a lot also depends on the conditions of the region.

Before, I resisted the pick and pushed the date of the procedure as far as possible, finding various excuses for myself. Firstly, subconsciously I didn’t want to mess around with pots and soil. Secondly, I knew: picking delays fruiting.

But it turned out that there was no need to be afraid of a dive. Because the procedure only strengthens the root system and activates the rate of development, unseen in tomatoes without picking. That is, everything then manages to catch up and overtake!

I dive twice. The first time was when 2 real sheets appeared. The second time is when the roots cover the entire volume of the dish. I take, respectively, a bigger glass

And now - about a common mistake from the category "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions")

Many vegetable growers, wanting to help seedlings grow strong and healthy, regularly use all kinds of feeding. I’m sure that young tomato seedlings don’t need them.

Thanks to two picks, my seedlings live in the ground, the nutrient supply of which does not have time to use up. And the main task now is to build up the root system, on which the potential of the specimen in the greenhouse depends.

Receiving macronutrients from top dressing, the plant thinks: "Yeah, why should I grow roots, if I am already presented with everything on a silver platter." And without constant nutrition from the outside, the tomato is in a hurry to master nutrients from the soil, building up a white cobweb of roots.

Are you planting tomatoes and was the article helpful to you? Put "Thumbs up" in response! I also recommend taking a look at another interesting material: A neighbor taught me how to sow seeds in boiling water. And the truth is - it rises better