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- So cocktail tomatoes on the balcony provide a rich harvest
- Planting time on the balcony starts in May
- These care tips pave the way to crisp-fresh fruits
- Tips & Tricks
So cocktail tomatoes on the balcony provide a rich harvest
For the garden on the balcony cocktail tomatoes are the perfect choice. They thrive in the bucket, balcony box or even in the hanging beam. Find out how to plant and care for the popular mini-tomatoes here.
Planting time on the balcony starts in May
Tomato plants can not get a good side out of frosty temperatures. Therefore, they are only planted when from mid-May, no more ground frosts are to be feared. Pre-owned young plants are available at this time in abundance. Enthusiastic hobby gardeners can not resist putting on the cocktail tomatoes in the house in February / March. At 18-24 degrees the seeds germinate within 10-14 days.
Cocktail tomatoes are planted in a sufficiently large planter, which has a drainage in the soil. Over this you create a drainage of crushed potsherds. Suitable substrate is commercially available vegetable soil, which you can enrich with compost, horn shavings or guano. Do not forget to leave a pouring rim free. As a location a sun-spoiled place on the balcony in question, like airy and rain-protected.
These care tips pave the way to crisp-fresh fruits
A successful cultivation of cocktail tomatoes on the balcony, stands and falls with the protection against rain. Only if this aspect is guaranteed can cultivation succeed. Otherwise, sooner or later the omnipresent brown rot strikes. If the site is not covered anyway, clever hobby gardeners simply build the rain roof themselves. All other maintenance work is easy to do:
With good care, the harvest begins in early August and extends into autumn. In time for the first frost, bring the last tomatoes into the house. Green fruits can easily ripen in the warm, dark room.
Tips & Tricks
Plant your cocktail tomatoes on the balcony but once in an innovative, hanging basket '. The decorative mesh baskets are excitingly planted from above and around. This attribute offers plenty of room for creative plant ideas with different colored tomato varieties.