Rainy, with unstable air temperatures the summer brings a lot of disappointment to those who are engaged in cultivation of soil vegetable cultures. The similar climatic situation extremely negatively affects both growth, and health of plants that makes gardeners think seriously over question - how to grow up tomatoes in cold summer, having received at the same time rich harvest from mature, healthy fruits.
If it happens so that the long-awaited summer time instead of warm, sunny days brings thunderstorms, heavy rains, hail with cold winds, the soil plants sensitive to the air temperature and level of humidity first of all react to such weather. So, for example, tomatoes in cold summer have phytophthora more often, badly cluster, and fruits with great difficulty ripen, most often remaining green or pinkish-brown color.
How to help tomatoes in cold summer
To avoid similar troubles, it is necessary to make correction to usual agrotechnical actions. If the prolonged rainy season is not norm for this area, and there was no opportunity previously to create high warm beds on which land the grades of tomatoes resistant to phytophthora then application of the following methods is recommended:
- when jumping seedling it is important not to place bushes of tomatoes too close from each other since this culture loves scope and at lack of the place all nutrients go to leaves, almost without leaving anything for growth of fruits. At lack of heat, sunlight and excess of moisture the narrowness on bed will only aggravate adverse situation;
- after rain each bush needs to be shaken off accurately from drops – most convenient to do it by the elastic long branch which is not damaging gentle foliage of tomatoes;
- the prishchipyvaniye of side escapes, removal of excess leaves and tops of plant in the second half of summer promotes the accelerated maturing of fruits;
- very well save tomatoes in cold summer small semicircular canopies from the film tense on framework leaving the lower part of bushes open for airing. Not less effectively also the material specialized ukryvny with the minimum density which is passing light and lifting temperature on bed to the necessary level works;
- in rainy weather not only tall, but also all other grades need obligatory podvyazyvaniye to avoid contact of fruits with the damp earth and thus to protect them from various diseases.
Than to feed up tomatoes in cold summer
Correctly picked up fertilizers promote not only prevention of the fungal infections extending with wind and excess moisture but also provide fast maturing of fruits. Quite simple and very effective fertilizing of tomatoes is made by means of mix, prepared on dairy basis: add 1 liter of milk to 10-liter bucket of water or kefir with the low content of fat and 10 drops of spirit solution of iodine. Water with the received structure plants: on 1 liter on each bush.
If on plants the first symptoms of fungal diseases have been noticed, it is recommended to process bushes the Bordeaux liquid. That not with to be mistaken with concentration at mixing of mortar, experienced vegetable growers advise to use such reception: in capacity with small amount of the prepared mix lower nail and check – whether the dark raid of copper has appeared on it. If the nail has darkened, then solution has turned out too concentrated and needs lime addition.
On the kitchen gardens which are exposed to regular weeding usually in large numbers the weeds accumulate. It can also be used for preparation of nutritious fertilizing: capacious capacity on one third is filled with grass (very well if there is opportunity to use nettle) then there add urea, superphosphate and wood ashes to proportions 1:2:6. Mix infuses under cover week, then the liter of infusion is parted in bucket of water and water tomatoes.
Diseases of tomatoes in cold summer
Adverse weather conditions quite often lead to the outbreaks of various diseases which are negatively affecting not only on quantity of harvest, but also on its quality: the had fruits become sinewy, dry and ugly.
Good prevention of emergence of phytophthora on tomatoes is mulching of the soil by means of hay: in rotten grass the bacterium "hay stick", being the natural enemy of causative agents of phytophthora well breeds. If in kitchen garden there is no opportunity to collect such quantity of grass to cover all beds, then it is recommended to prepare the culture of hay stick: small amount of hay is filled in with water and insisted before emergence of muddy film. The film is collected in separate capacity, diluted with liter of whey and process tomatoes.
If on the site there are in large numbers wood ashes, then with its help it is necessary to process beds and row-spacings during planting of seedling, and then to repeat processing when plants fade and forming of ovaries will begin. All manipulations on prevention of diseases are carried out only to dry weather, after sunset.