The correct procedures of crops of seeds, care for seedling and planting of saplings to the open ground – guarantees of your success in receiving excellent harvest of such useful and tasty vegetable as tomato. In our latitudes tomatoes are grown up in exclusively seedling way. To grow up good seedling – task not so difficult, but to avoid mistakes, it is necessary to consider certain rules and nuances.
For the choice of optimum time of crops of seeds be guided by the fact that in two months you have to be ready to planting of plants to the greenhouse or on kitchen garden bed. Otherwise seedling can outgrow. Consider also that steady warm weather comes to the central region not earlier than the middle of May. For the South – it is the middle of April. In the north warm days come only with arrival of calendar summer. Tomatoes it is possible "to lodge" in hothouse conditions for 1-2 weeks earlier.
We fill pots with soil, we moisten it, we sow on some seeds in one pot at distance 2-5 centimeters from each other. We cover seeds with earth, we cover with polyethylene film. Optimum temperature for prorashchivaniye of seeds – +25-+30 °C. Do not forget to humidify the soil every day! After in your pots sprouts have appeared, seedling needs to be moved on windowsill or other light place. At lack of illumination it needs to be dosvechivat the daylight lamp. Especially it concerns February and March when daylight hours still rather short. As for humidity, for recently sprouted seeds it has to be about 90%. It is impossible to remove sharply film, it is necessary to do it gradually. Completely it is possible to refuse it approximately in week after germination of seeds. It is impossible to allow modulations or drying of the soil categorically. We water young plants carefully, under small stalk. It is better to make watering in the morning. It is very important to observe temperature condition of cultivation of seedling. Adhere to the following indicators: +18-+25 °C - in the afternoon and +12-+15 °C - at night. Fertilizing can be begun 2 weeks later after emergence of sprouts. After that seedling is fertilized once a week. Best of all organic fertilizers are suitable for these purposes.When your seedling had had first real leaflets, it is possible to start sword-play – rassazhivaniye of plants in separate, more spacious tanks. In two-three weeks the young tomatoes change repeatedly. Beds for planting of tomatoes are prepared, as a rule, even in the fall. In the spring, in two weeks prior to planting of plants, the earth needs to be dug over and fertilized once again. On the eve of landing, in the evening, it is necessary it is abundant to spill the soil water. We plant our tomatoes in warm cloudy day, in the morning.