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- Tomatoes grow yourself - a guide to harvest luck
- Cultivation and piking made easy
- Plant and maintain expertly
- Dust in the greenhouse and on the windowsill
- Tips & Tricks
Tomatoes grow yourself - a guide to harvest luck
The cultivation of tomatoes has a reputation for being difficult and challenging. Convince yourself of the opposite with the following instructions. This is how you breed tomatoes yourself - completely without a green thumb.
Cultivation and piking made easy
On the sunny window sill, seedling starts in March. After soaking in water or chamomile tea for a few hours, the seeds are sown in a lean substrate. The light germs get a very thin layer of sand or earth, to be moistened very gently. Spoiled with warm temperatures of 20 to 24 degrees Celsius, they germinate within 10 to 14 days.
So that the seedlings do not spoil, they move to a cooler and at the same time lighter place. The plantlets are pikiert as soon as the second pair of leaves shows. Carefully transplanted into individual pots with nutritious soil, growth is now progressing rapidly. At this stage, the seedlings must neither dry up nor be drowned. They do not tolerate full sun yet.
Plant and maintain expertly
After the cold days around the Eisheiligen, it goes out into the field. In the sunny spot, beetroot and tub substrate are enriched with compost. Plant the young tomatoes so deeply that the soil reaches the lower leaves. Keep an eye on a planting distance of 60-80 centimeters. A trellis support supports upright, stable growth right from the start. The central care factors are:
Of central importance is reliable rain protection. If tomatoes do not find a place in the greenhouse, cover the plants with a tomato house or a special hood. Otherwise, there is a threat of cabbage blight with every shower.
Dust in the greenhouse and on the windowsill
Busy bumblebees and bees do not reach the flowers of tomato plants in closed rooms in order to act as pollinators. This function takes over the hobby gardener. Immediately after flowering, the plants are shaken at lunchtime. Alternatively, paint the flowers with a brush to spread the pollens for fertilization.
Tips & Tricks
Do not throw out spilled parts of tomatoes. Dried and burned, they turn into an excellent fertilizer for cultivation next year. The ash is particularly rich in potassium. Tomato plants need this nutrient even more urgently than nitrogen, because it promotes fruit formation.