Any does not do without fleshy, juicy tomatoes, even the beginning gardener. "Kings of beds" are poured by red sides in the sun and attract look. That popular vegetable has as soon as possible brought the first harvest, it is necessary to think of seedling in advance. When to plant seeds of tomatoes on seedling and what needs to be made for good shoots?
Favorable days for planting of seeds in glasses – on January 6, 10, 30, February – 14, 16, 18, 24 number. Under the open sky are favorable for landing of sprouts – 9.15, 19, 24, 25 dates of May. If weather cold, the best day for landing of seeds – June – 2, 7 or 11 number.
Tomatoes love the earth rich with mineral and organic fertilizers. That kernels have quicker arisen, and the stalk was strong, it is better to prepare earth mix independently. Mix part of the turf, soil, the chernozem, fine sand and humus (1:1), add a little biohumus. Many gardeners add coconut substrate, the main thing, to watch amount of hydrogen – its indicator should not exceed 5.5 - 6.0 pH.
Before filling up the soil, it is calcinated at temperature of 180 °C about 15-20 minutes, or generously watered with strong solution of manganese (it is possible to use plain boiled water) for obezorazhivaniye. Then the soil is left for 14 days (capacity is covered with cellophane) - allow to gather new useful bacteria.
Preparation and landing of seeds
Choose seeds at the checked producers: Gavrish (have own institute of vegetable growing), "Semko Unior" (complete description of structure on packing), "Agros" (high quality). The checked seed can be not retted in obezorazhivayushchy solutions. If you are not sure of product, it is better to be reinsured: sunflower seeds place in gauze fabric (damp, turn in several layers), and leave on saucer with weak (1%) manganic solution for hour. It is possible to wet kernels in aloe solution (to buy ready extract, or to remove from stalks spoon). Before processing, (1:1) keep aloe juice in the fridge of 4-5 days. One more option of disinfection – water (200 ml) and 1 g of baking soda (for fast shoots).
The prepared earth is filled up in boxes, plastic tanks from under cake or glasses with openings for ventilation, leveled. Soil has to be crude, friable, and grooves superficial (no more than 1 cm). Seedlings stack at distance 2-3 cm from each other, from above priporashivat the earth. For creation of hothouse effect, boxes with future seedling cover with food wrap or plastic bag, put on windowsill. Optimum temperature for cultivation – 25 °C if there is not enough heat, it is possible to use phytolamps. After emergence of the first sprouts the film is deleted.
Peat tablets, cartridges
Plus peat tablets is that they contain necessary fertilizers which protect from emergence of fungus or mold, and the grown-up sprouts do not demand zashchipyvaniye (sword-play of leaves always stress for plants). Tablets need to be wetted in water. The inflated roundels place in plastic cups, in special openings stack kernels which from above powder with the earth. Glasses cover with glass or food wrap to the first arisen rostochok.
Cartridges. Seedling is very convenient in the cassette way: watering is made by means of pallets with water, a lot of place is saved, and cartridges can be used repeatedly. Sprouts do not demand sword-play and are in addition protected from rotting and the attack of harmful microbes. Cartridges differ by the size, spaciousness, have large or small cells. Larger sizes will be suitable for tomatoes. In small cells soil quickly dries up, loses nutritious properties. That there were no problems, prepare mix of the agropelit and peat (riding), 1:3. Peat (10 buckets) is mixed with chalk (1 kg), ammonium nitrate (50 g), sulfate magnesium (30 g), potash saltpeter (100 g) and superphosphate (150 g) in advance. The soil before application of fertilizers is calcinated in oven, or processed manganese.
Disinfection is carried out only for reusable cartridges. Cartridges distribute on pallets, add damp soil, do small deepenings in which plant seed.
Care for tomatoes
It is necessary to water the growing sprouts accurately, without filling in leaves, it is better to process spray (once a week, and at emergence of 3 uniform leaves of 1 times in 4 days). Water has to be otstoyanny, room temperature.
For additional lighting, tomatoes put under svetolampa. Do not forget to air the room, but do not create drafts.
Landing to the open ground is carried out to warm, sunny weather: pay attention to condition of stalk and leaves – the sickly, yellowish or hung sprouts it is better to fertilize (Agricola Vegueta – 1 tsp, Kornerost of 1 tsp + water liter). Plants under the open sky, 30 cm high and with 5-6 mature, strong leaves land.