Seedlings tomato at home

It is difficult to imagine our life without tasty and useful tomatoes. This remarkable berry is very widely used in the Slavic cuisine. But, as you know, the most delicious and aromatic are those tomatoes that grew in their own garden. To do this, you can buy young plants in the market or in the store, or you can grow seedlings and tomatoes at home yourself from the seeds. This is not difficult, but you still need the basic skills that you can get from reading this article.

What you need to know for this?

Getting tomato seedlings in the home is quite simple, because this is how I grow this berry most gardeners, using not purchased plants, but grown independently. After all, this method is much cheaper than buying seedlings grown by someone. And it's not at all the fact that the purchased seedlings will be exactly the sort you are counting on. To grow tomato seedlings it is desirable to prepare soil in autumn. It can be taken directly from your garden, the best place is the one where onions or cucumbers grew. In order to increase the amount of nutrients in it, you can add a little peat (in proportion of four parts of the earth to one part of the peat). Planting seeds in seeds on tomato seedlings should be done for a month and a half before direct landing in the ground. Remember, good seeds are growing very quickly, just a week after planting, the baby tomatoes should already be ascending. If after this time they did not sprout, then, most likely, the seeds were not of high quality. They will need to be reset again. After the basics, you can go to the very process of landing. Further on how to properly care for tomato seedlings while it grows.

Care of seedlings

That your tomatoes do not hurt during transplantation, it is best to use small peat cups for seeding. When the time comes to transplant the young plants into the open ground, then this can be done without removing them from there. Over time, a glass in the soil will decompose and will be used as an additional source of nutrients. First, we collect the soil, prepared in advance, in the cups. It is desirable that the soil inside them warms up to a temperature of 25 to 30 degrees. We sow two or three seeds in each glass not deeper than one centimeter. A little watering them and waiting for sprouting. After the seeds have risen, wait about a week, and then thin the shoots (choose the strongest plants, and the rest just cut off at the root). After this, the tomato itself will feel good in a warm and well-lit place, for example, on a windowsill. The optimum temperature for growth of seedlings is 18-20 degrees in the daytime and 12-15 at night. Light day for plants is better artificially prolonged to 16 hours, then the tomato bushes will be strong. Top dressing for tomato seedlings should be given every ten days, but use for this is only bio-fertilizer, because we grow tomatoes for ourselves. Why bio? Tomatoes have the property of accumulating in the plant chemical compounds, which then fall into berries, and this turn of events is highly undesirable. The usefulness of such berries is very doubtful. Here is one more argument in favor of the fact that growing tomato seedlings is on your windowsill, and not buying on the market. We water the seedlings only when the soil dries slightly. If you do this more often, you can get acquainted with the unpleasant disease of these plants - a black leg.

In conclusion, I want to remind you that tomatoes do not tolerate low temperatures, so you can only plant them in the open ground, being sure that the frosts have passed. It remains to wish you success and a rich harvest!