How to plant and grow tomatoes without watering
Not every summer resident has the opportunity to devote a large amount of time to the garden, and tomatoes are especially demanding on care. What if there is no time for watering at all? If so, use the no-water tomato method.
Growing features
In order for tomatoes without irrigation to please with a high-quality and bountiful harvest, certain rules must be followed when planting seedlings. So, how to plant tomatoes and not water them:
- The lower leaves must be removed.
- Pre-dig a hole for planting seedlings half the size of the stem.
- Fertilizer, wood ash and potassium permanganate should be added to the prepared hole for planting seedlings (2 tablespoons of ash and 1 gram of potassium permanganate are taken for ½ bucket of fertilizer).
- The well is watered with an abundant amount of water along with the dressing.
- After absorbing moisture, seedlings begin to be planted: the lower part of the plant is horizontally placed in the hole with the top to the north side.
- Tomatoes wake up with a small amount of soil.
- The top needs to be tied to special pegs.
- Gently water the plants with copious amounts of room temperature water (1/2 bucket), so that the liquid does not get on the leaves.
The stage of planting vegetable crops is over, and the summer residents begin a psychological turn, which consists in growing tomatoes without watering.
Later, as the moisture dries, the leaves on the seedlings begin to wither, and the plant itself bends. At this point, gardeners should show resistance and in no case moisten the beds.
In the absence of moisture, the root system of tomatoes begins to grow. In search of water, the roots go deeper into the ground and become strong. When the fruits appear, the plant, no longer accustomed to watering, will not wait for moisture. The bushes are in independent search for water. Larger tomatoes are formed, because the vegetable crop is fully confident that it can "saturate" itself. Note that, according to numerous observations of summer residents, tomatoes without irrigation give a higher yield than when grown in the traditional way.
Caring gardeners, seeing withering bushes, will immediately begin to water the garden. Should not be doing that! Wait just 7 days and you will see that growing tomatoes without watering is not a myth, but a very real thing. The total adaptation period for plants is about two weeks. After 14 days, the tomatoes begin to grow and gradually become like tomato bushes. Note that growing tomatoes using this method is ideal for soils with groundwater tables.
Care features
Although caring for a vegetable crop is minimal, tomatoes still require certain conditions. When planting tomatoes in open ground during the period of drying out of the soil, it is important not to water the bushes. Overpower yourself!
The unkempt appearance of the bushes is explained by the fact that the roots in the soil begin to seek moisture, which requires a large amount of energy. At the end of the crescent, the plant regains its fresh and fragrant appearance.
The traditional non-irrigation method of growing tomatoes is the complete lack of water during the development of the bushes. However, if you are very worried about tomatoes, it is not forbidden to water the garden once a month during fruiting. Then be prepared for the fruits themselves to become watery. Without watering tomatoes have a sweetish taste, the fruits can be used in the preparation of salads or various tomato products.
In order for a plant to grow healthy in a greenhouse, you need to know several features for growing it:
- Form the beds correctly.
- Remove the lower leaves on the stem.
- Carry out pinching.
- It is recommended to add carbon dioxide to the seedlings 2-3 times, for example, the Greenhouse tablet.
- Provide quality lighting in the greenhouse, you can even add an additional lamp.
- It is systematically necessary to ventilate the greenhouse, especially in hot weather (above 30 ° C).
- Water the seedlings only in exceptional cases, when fruits appear on the bushes.
Features of mulching
When wondering how to grow tomatoes without irrigation, special attention should be paid to mulching the soil. This is necessary to provide the root system with the possibility of additional moisture.
Each layer of soil performs its own specific functions: somewhere grass grows, somewhere its remains are. Modern vegetable growers are very accustomed to open soil and do not pay attention to the rest of its layers at all, because weeds do not interfere at all. Since the openness of the soil is directly related to natural conditions, such as sunlight, wind, precipitation, this often leads to the drying out of the earth.
Most summer residents are advised to slightly loosen the topsoil, and not dig it. This should be done as needed. For example, digging the ground deeper than 5 cm, you transfer the lower layer to the upper one. Together with him, various microorganisms and worms appear at the top.
Being above the set level, they die due to lack of oxygen, and it takes a lot of time to restore microflora. Please note that every year you dig up the soil, the yield drops.
Why take unnecessary actions and reduce the amount of the crop, if you can follow a simpler path: it is enough to mulch the soil, eliminating the drying out of the earth. Moreover, this method is a budget option that will take very little time.
Absolutely any materials are suitable for mulching: newspaper, hay, straw, weeds, sawdust, fallen leaves from trees or expanded clay. A layer of mulch is made about 20-30 cm. Be prepared that during the season it will be necessary to add or change it, as the mulch constantly sags.
According to the observations of one of the gardeners: “This is not the first time I have grown tomatoes without using water. I can say that this is a wonderful method. Caring for tomatoes does not take much time, and the fruits themselves grow delicious and sweet. "
It is very easy to grow tomatoes without watering according to the good advice of summer residents and gardeners. Do not water the plants under any circumstances and follow simple rules for caring for tomato beds. Have a nice harvest!
