How to properly water tomatoes during ripening

How to Grow Good Tomatoes? To make the branches of each bush bend under their weight, were they tasty? It turns out that competent watering is one of the most important nuances of the agricultural technology of this culture.

And what the harvest will be is largely determined by how they are watered during ripening. I decided to give the following tips based on personal experience!

The irrigation rate should be calculated individually for each case. Tall varieties require more water, and dwarf ones require less water. When it rains regularly, the weather is not hot - watering is reduced, and when arid heat reigns in the season, it is more frequent.

As soon as the flowers on the bushes are replaced by ovaries, that is, "green leaves", you need to make sure that the soil does not dry out. That is, watering can be from 1 to 4 per week.

Even from personal experience, I can say that 1 to 3 liters is needed for 1 bush.

To prevent tomatoes from getting chlorosis, due to which the yield may decrease by 60-80%, it is contraindicated to water them with hard water. But fortunately, it is easy to soften it - it is enough to let the water settle for 3 days and add 100 grams of wood ash for every 100 liters.

Water drops during watering should in no case fall not only on the leaves, but also on the forming fruits.

It so happens that the summer turned out to be cold and in the case when the temperature drops below + 10 ° С, it is safer to skip one watering for tomatoes before warming - they can extract a certain amount of moisture through the leaves from the air, but the flow of water into the cool in the usual way can "shock" the root system.

If it so happened that several irrigations were missed and the earth dried up in the heat, then in no case should the tomatoes be hastily "soldered off"!

The fact is that these plants very quickly draw water into themselves, supplying it directly to the fruits. And having suddenly taken a large volume of liquid, they naturally begin to grow.

The pulp cells perceive this normally, but the coarser skin does not ripen, as a result of which the fruits begin to crack.

I want to warn about another common mistake - do not water the tomatoes too often and too much! An excess of moisture, even if not cracked, increases the risks of root decay.

Plus, the vegetables are late in time. And it also spoils the taste of the fruit - they become literally watery, lose their sweetness and characteristic tomato saturation.