Description of the method of picking tomatoes according to Ganichkina
The famous gardener Oktyabrina Ganichkina has been sharing her experience in growing vegetables for many years. In the spring, gardeners are most often interested in picking seedlings and feeding them.
Basic tips for diving tomatoes:
- Ganichkina recommends diving for tomato seedlings twice. This will help avoid pulling the bushes and form a powerful root. This is true for growing tomatoes in the central strip, when planting in open ground is possible only in June.
- The first transplant is carried out at stage 1-2 of a true leaf in small pots with a volume of 200-300 ml.
- Before diving, tomatoes are watered abundantly with water with complex fertilizing for Agricola seedlings.
- The temperature of the water for irrigating seedlings should be at room temperature. From too warm water, thermophilic tomatoes are very stretched.
- Ganichkina recommends taking good quality soil specially for tomato seedlings or universal.
First pick
- Pour the earthen mixture into the pot and push the hole with a stick.
- Moisten the soil abundantly with the same water with top dressing.
- With a stick or fingers, gently pry a bush from a box with seedlings and transfer to a pot without disturbing the earthen coma.
- Use your fingers to bury the tomato to the middle of the stem and gently crush the soil around the root.
- After 2 weeks, the plants need to be fed with Agricola for seedlings or another complex mineral fertilizer.
Second pick
The second dive is carried out in 3-4 weeks.
Two hours before the transplant, you need to cut off 2-3 lower leaves with scissors, leaving small hemp. At each picking of tomatoes, Ganichkina recommends deepening the bushes to form new lateral roots. To prevent the leaves from rotting in the soil, they are removed.
It is better to take pots with a volume of 2-2.5 liters. You can plant 1–2 bushes in each.
- A handful of soil mixture is poured at the bottom.
- Plants are removed from small pots carefully, keeping the root system if possible, and placed in a new pot.
- Gradually sprinkle with your hand and crush the tomato root until the pot is на full.
- There should be room in the pot for future soil filling.
- The transplanted seedlings are watered with settled water at room temperature.
After 2 weeks, add soil mixture, leaving 2-3 cm from the top edge of the pot. Tomatoes are fed with Agricola with a small addition of an organic mixture (Humate or similar). It is useful to additionally carry out foliar feeding with the same composition. Spraying each bush, on the advice of Ganichkina, it is better to start from the underside of the leaves.
Preparation for transplanting in open ground
Preparing for transplantation Oktyabrina Ganichkina recommends starting with hardening the seedlings.When the outside temperature rises above 14-15 ⁰C during the day, the tomato pots can be brought out to the open balcony for a short time. It is better to cover the first days of the plant with a thin covering material so that there is no burn from direct sunlight.
A week before the planned planting in the ground, tomatoes need to be fed with complex mineral fertilizers. It is useful to treat tomatoes with the "Bud" preparation, this stimulates profuse flowering.
The day before transplanting into the ground, cut off the lower 1-2 leaves, freeing the stem for deepening. "Wounds" should have time to weather before contact with the ground to exclude decay. If two bushes grew in a pot, they can be carefully separated. Or so and plant in pairs, but when tying the bushes to the support, form a little sideways from each other.
After planting, it is advisable to cover the tomatoes with plastic wrap for the first time until stable warm and dry weather is established.
