Growing tomatoes in a greenhouse is not an easy task, because the vegetable is pretty whimsical and immediately reacts to unfavorable conditions. And there are many of them! Nevertheless, this is one of the most common agricultural crops that our gardeners are planting in greenhouses. In addition to knowledge of watering, feeding and pasynkovanie it is important to know when to remove tomatoes in the greenhouse.
How to collect tomatoes in a greenhouse?
In contrast to vegetables growing in the open ground, greenhouse tomatoes are recommended to collect slightly unripe. Such fruits are light, with a brown color. Thanks to this tomatoes, which hang on the branches still completely green, on the bushes will ripen faster. Do not worry, the fruits will not spoil and will delight you and your loved ones with a magnificent taste. The final ripening will occur in 10-15 days. But the container with fruits should be placed in a sunny room. And, note that for long-term storage tomatoes should be carefully removed from the bushes along with the peduncle. Thanks to this, tomatoes will preserve not only the elasticity, but also the majority of vitamins.
If we talk about when to shoot the first tomatoes in the greenhouse, then, of course, this depends on the time of planting the seedlings and the variety of the vegetable. With the observance of proper agricultural techniques, the first harvest in the greenhouse is expected in early June.
Whether to remove green tomatoes in a greenhouse?
Unlike tomatoes on the open ground, where the fruits are already fully harvested by the middle of August, the vegetable can be kept in the greenhouse until the end of September, depending on the region in which you live. It is necessary to be guided by a sharp cooling. Regarding the temperature at which tomatoes are removed in the greenhouse, this is + 8 + 10 ° C. Up to a lower temperature, the fruits should not be kept, even if they are green.
Otherwise, late blight can develop late blight . And then you completely will be left without a crop, after all tomatoes will turn black and will rot. Collect the unripe fruit in a warm room, where the temperature regime is kept + 12 + 16⁰С, and where the relative humidity reaches 80%. We recommend to sort out the harvest in order to weed out damaged by late blight. The disease is manifested by the appearance of brown-black spots. By the way, the stored fruits should be ventilated. If these conditions are met, the green tomatoes collected in the greenhouse will turn red and ripen after a month and a half. In the event that you wish to accelerate the maturation of tomatoes, place them in a room where it will be warmer, for example, + 20 + 25 ° C.