To receive big crops of tomatoes and cucumbers, it is necessary to watch the soil fertilizer supporting and enhancing its fertility carefully. Usually the earth is fertilized before landing of seeds, in the course of landing and after it. Than it is the best of all to fertilize the soil in which tomatoes and cucumbers will grow?
Fertilizers for cucumbers
Cucumbers very much need fertile soil and nutrient medium of dwelling in which it will be able to develop and yield as much as possible big crop from qualitative large fruits. The best soil for cultivation of cucumbers the easy loamy neutral earth which contains humus is considered. One plant for the entire period of growth needs such fertilizers as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium – to reach big crops, the soil with the growing cucumbers needs to be provided with large number of mineral substances.
At fertilizer of cucumbers it is necessary to watch that the mineralization of the soil was not excessively high, using for this purpose partial power supply.
As the cucumber is vegetable culture with the long period of absorption of various nutrients, it is necessary to stop its fertilizing in two-three weeks prior to collecting of harvest. Also the cucumber consumes various amount of fertilizers during certain periods of the development – so, during the fructification on forming of cucumbers large amount of nitrogen and potassium is consumed. At decrease in access of roots of plant to the used nutrients, the harvest considerably decreases.
Fertilizers for tomatoes
Tomatoes not less cucumbers need fertile soil in which fertilizing and the main fertilizers is brought. In initial stage of growth they need to be fertilized potash saltpeter, reducing its quantity in process of development of plant. The high need of tomatoes for nutritious fertilizers is caused by their developed root system which quickly acquires nutrients from the soil.
At the main fertilizing of tomatoes it is necessary to bring the full complex consisting of micro and macrofertilizers which amount changes during vegetation in the soil.
Potash fertilizers are ideal for tomatoes as they enhance ability of plant to forming of fruit bodies and increase resistance to external irritants, wreckers and diseases. Not less positively tomatoes are influenced also by phosphoric fertilizer and also the manure most often used on the cultivated fertile soil. Unlike cucumbers, tomatoes develop not on neutral better, and on the subacidic soil. If tomatoes are grown up on the soil where to them cucumbers grew, you should not produce additional fertilizer as after cucumbers the soil is so saturated with fertilizing that excess power supply can only do much harm to shoots and young plants.