Getting ready for the garden season: 5 effective ways to disinfect tomato seeds, cucumbers and peppers

If the seeds are not treated before sowing, then you can encounter various diseases, including late blight, cladosporiosis, root rot and fusarium wilt. The main part of the infection on cucumbers and tomatoes is introduced precisely with the seed.

You need to disinfect (pickle) seeds, both purchased and your own, with the exception of seeds from the store in a special shell, which have already been pre-treated for diseases.

Infections at home are very rare, because it is warm and dry in houses and apartments in winter and early spring. And the spores of pathogens show themselves well in a humid environment, for example, in a greenhouse and hotbeds.

After disembarking in the garden, the disease does not appear immediately. Pathogens of diseases all this time get used to new conditions and are waiting in the wings to prove themselves in favorable weather for them.

Usually, in July, the fight against diseases on plants begins. Many gardeners do not even realize that as a result of their omission of seed treatment with a seed dressing before sowing, a problem arose with crops in the form of infection. But the disinfection of the seed in February-March takes some minutes.

Out of ignorance or laziness, you have to pay with the harvest, it is not always possible to save the plants. Therefore, there is no need to skip such an important stage - seed dressing.

Seed dressing methods

I would like to share with you the following methods of seed disinfection.

Method 1

I soak the seeds in water for an hour in gauze, then put them in hydrogen peroxide for another half hour, then rinse them in running water.

Method 2

Soak in water for one hour, then process the seeds in undiluted Chlorhexidine for 30 minutes, then rinse.

Method 3

This method is considered more effective than the previous two. So, I take the seeds and soak them in water for an hour, then disinfect them for 20 minutes in hydrogen peroxide, then for 20 minutes in chlorhexidine and rinse them.

Method 4

You can also use ordinary potassium permanganate, keeping the seeds in the solution for 20-30 minutes, and then rinse the seeds.

Method 5

For seed treatment, you can use Fitosporin-M for seedlings in liquid form (you can use both paste and powder). To do this, I dilute 40 drops of the product in 2 glasses of water. This mixture is enough to soak 40 grams of seeds.

I put the latter in gauze and keep it in a warm solution for at least 2 hours. You cannot take tap water, as it contains chlorine.

Do not forget to disinfect your vegetable seeds, so that later you will not be surprised by the poor harvest of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.

Good luck at the beginning of the garden season!

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