Earthing up of tomatoes - the procedure helping to grow up more abundant harvest of these vegetables. Some gardeners consider that earthing up of tomatoes - waste of time, however actually it not so.
Each gardener for himself solves itself, whether he should hill tomatoes. Therefore if you in thoughts whether to carry out this procedure at itself on the site, you need to study information on what gives this earthing up. It is known that at earthing up the part of soil rises in the form of hillock around stalks of tomatoes up. It allows to protect small stalks of plants from wreckers. Thanks to scarification to roots of plants more air arrives, they are better saturated with nutrients, and in grooves which remain after earthing up, water accumulates that helps tomatoes easier to transfer the periods between waterings. These are, perhaps, all pluses of earthing up.
Now as for earthing up terms. Time of holding procedure depends only on plants. Usually, if tomatoes lack nutrients (the root system does not cope), then on bottom of small stalks, practically the earth, has small hillocks - inclinations of future root system. This the main sign that earthing up time has come.
It is necessary to hill tomatoes only at the damp soil, it is optimum - in hour after watering. It is possible to carry out the procedure also improvised devices, however it is more preferable to use special purpose tool - chopper. Work takes place as follows: the part of the earth on the one side of plant is accurately rowed up, the small hillock around tomato stalk is created, then the same repeats on the other hand. Very important during the work not to touch root system as it can negatively affect health of saplings.
Thus all tomatoes having hillocks on small stalks are hilled. It should be noted that the procedure of earthing up has to be carried out twice during the season. The first time - at emergence of hillocks on stalks (about it it is written above), and the second time - at blue discoloration of the lower part of stalks. If tomatoes in hotbed are planted too often and there is no excess soil for earthing up, then it should be borrowed on some other bed in kitchen garden. If to ignore earthing up, then further moisture and nutrients can just not be enough for plants and many of them will begin to be ill or at all will die.