Many gardeners and gardeners often have a question about how to feed the tomatoes correctly in order to get a big crop and not to harm the plant at the moment of fertilization. Each fertilizer requires careful approach and dosage. That is why the search for fertilizers takes a lot of time, effort and patience.
There are many ways of feeding tomatoes, but many gardeners do not accept chemicals. Therefore, today we will focus on the correct use of organic fertilizers for the proper growth and development of tomatoes.
Top dressing of tomatoes with organic substances: the benefits and harm
Organic fertilizers are made from substances of animal or vegetable origin. In such fertilizers there is a high content of substances necessary for plants for full growth and development: nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, potassium, calcium and magnesium.
The advantages of organic include the following:
- Their availability and low cost.
- Environmental friendliness - their natural origin is not subject to doubt.
- Complex effects - they contain a whole set of vital components for the plant.
Disadvantages:
- Working with funds is not very convenient and pleasant.
- Calculating the correct dosage also has its difficulties.
Tomatoes love natural dressing and undeniable advantages in this type of fertilizer set:
When organic fertilizers are applied, the soil is disinfected.- The soil and culture are filled with all the necessary nutrients.
- Stems and root system become stronger and thicker.
- Leaves get healthy coloring and quickly gain their weight.
- The fruits of tomatoes grow larger and more tasty.
When organic fertilizers are applied, the soil is disinfected.But there are also disadvantages of such fertilizers:
- Materials of plant and animal origin often contain pests and various fungal infections.
- Also, improper dosage and overfeeding with organics can cause the plant to burn its root system and the ground part.
Onion Husk
Tomatoes love to feed onion peel, which contains a lot of useful substances that can protect this culture from such unpleasant diseases as gray and black rot. Due to this fertilizer, the stems of tomatoes are strengthened, their tone increases and the fragility of the bushes decreases. How to prepare the composition:
- 2 cups rammed onion peel pour 2 liters of boiling water.
- Insist in a dark cool place for 48 hours.
- Then strain the solution and dilute with clean cool water in a 1: 3 ratio.
How to apply:
- The first dressing with onion extract is carried out 3-4 days after transplanting tomatoes into the ground. The solution should be made in the basal hole near the stem of the plant. At 1 bush need half a liter of infusion.
- The second dressing should be carried out during the flowering of bushes. Watering is also radical.
A fish
Tomatoes are very fond of fish heads, because it is a very effective, environmentally friendly and readily available fertilizer. Just do not throw away the remains of the fish after it is chopped and store them in the freezer.
Important: feeding tomatoes with fish will provide them with phosphorus, potassium, iron and magnesium.
How to prepare the composition of fish heads:
Scroll through the fish heads through the meat grinder.- Add water to gruel to get a kind of liquid fertilizer.
- Give some time to insist to the solution, but do not wait until the unpleasant smell of rotten matter comes from it.
- Do not leave this dressing in the sun.
Scroll through the fish heads through the meat grinder.How to apply:
- Watering this solution does not need the roots of plants, but the space between them.
- Try not to let the fertilizer fall on the leaves, it can burn them.
Crackers
Summer residents have long noticed that bread solution has a very beneficial effect on tomatoes. The culture begins to grow faster, the root system is formed a few weeks earlier, and the ripened fruits have excellent taste. How to prepare the composition:
- The remains of black or white bread are pre-dried and stored in a tightly closed container.
- Then, the resulting crackers are placed in a small bucket and poured with warm water.
- It is necessary to insist on such a composition under a tightly closed lid in the sun for about 2 weeks - during this time the yeast will begin to ferment.
How to apply:
- The finished solution should be diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio.
- Water the bushes need to be at the root for two weeks.
Banana peel
The infusion of banana peels has long been well establishedas an effective tool for feeding tomatoes in the greenhouse. But the plants growing in the open ground also thankfully respond to the fertilizer with such a nutrient solution. Tomatoes grow faster, form and grow a good leaf mass, give higher yields. How to prepare and apply the composition:
- From fresh peel: 3 banana skins placed in a 3-liter glass jar and pour clean cool water. Insist 3 days. Pour the composition into a bucket and dilute with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Water the tomatoes at the root in the morning or in the evening during the week.
- From dried skins: Pour 4 dried peels with 1 liter of water and leave for 48 hours. Then dilute with water 1: 1. Watering is carried out as described above.
Chicken droppings
Chicken droppings have long been used in horticulture as a natural and highly effective fertilizer for watering tomatoes, because it contains 3 times more chemical elements in its composition than well-known cow manure. There is a large amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, copper, manganese, cobalt and zinc in bird droppings.
As a result of this feeding, a rapid growth is observed in tomatoes, a quicker ovary of the inflorescences and an active flowering. Moreover, it was experimentally noted that even a single treatment of the bushes with such fertilizer increases the crop yield by 2 years ahead.
Attention: fresh, dry and even granulated bird droppings can be used for the preparation of the nutritional composition.
Fresh
How to prepare the composition of chicken manure:
Per 1 portion of fresh chicken manure is taken 15 parts of water.- A more concentrated formulation can cause burns in the plant.
Per 1 portion of fresh chicken manure is taken 15 parts of water.How to apply:
- The solution must be applied by the root method at the rate of half a liter of fertilizer per 1 bush.
- It is recommended to carry out this procedure only after rain or a couple of hours after watering the crop.
Dry
How to apply:
- Dry chicken manure is introduced when digging the soil after harvest in the fall.
- Fertilizer is applied in a slightly wetted form over the entire surface of the site of the future planting of tomatoes at the rate of 3-5 kg of litter per 5 m².
- Fertilizer must be placed on the soil evenly, for this you can use a rake.
- It is also recommended to add wood ash, sand and compost to chicken droppings and then leave the beds that have been fertilized in this way until spring digging.
Granulated
How to apply:
- Granular fertilizer is very convenient to put in the soil before planting tomato seedlings.
- On 1m² of land need 150-250 g of litter.
- Pellets need lightly sprinkle with earth.
Important: seedlings should not come into contact with this fertilizer, so it should be applied between future beds.
Horse dung
Horse droppings - a great dressing for tomato bushes. But it is most efficient to use half-rotted manure, as it contains a large amount of nitrogen, well absorbed by plants. How to prepare the composition:
- One bucket of manure dissolved in 30 liters of water.
- Allow the resulting solution to infuse for 2-3 days.
How to apply:
- The first top dressing is carried out in 20-25 days after planting the tomato seedlings in the greenhouse.
- Next, the manure should be made no more than 1 time in 2 weeks.
Rabbit application
Rabbit's litter besides water is rich in nitrogen, magnesium and potassium, thanks to which the growth of plants is accelerated and they become stronger and more durable. This fertilizer is used directly in 2 ways:
With the help of liquid feeding.- In the form of dry powdered powder.
With the help of liquid feeding.How to prepare and use liquid dressing:
- 1 kg of litter pour 10 liters of water, mix thoroughly.
- Allow fertilizer to infuse for 12 to 24 hours, occasionally stirring until smooth.
- It is necessary to apply this fertilizer at the rate of 2 liters of composition per 1 m² of land, but no more than twice a year, otherwise the plants will burn from an excess of nitrogen and methane in the soil.
How to make and apply dry droppings:
- To make dry powder out of rabbit dung, it is first dried in the sun, and then ground to a fine powder.
- Make this type of fertilizer must be mixed with the earth at the rate of 1 tsp. dry litter on 1.5 kilograms of soil.
Conclusion
Enriching the soil and fertilizing tomatoes with organic matter throughout their development is a necessary and very important procedure. Following the general recommendations and rules for fertilizing tomatoes with organic dressing can achieve very good results: strengthen the plants during their growth, increase the speed of fruit ripening, increase crop yield.
