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Recently, many gardeners are trying to switch to natural and environmentally friendly types of plant nutrition. Among the crops demanding additional nutrition, everyone's favorite tomatoes.
It is problematic to grow a wonderful crop of tomatoes without top dressing. At the same time, you want feeding to take a minimum of effort and bring a guaranteed result. Therefore, feeding a tomato with yeast helps gardeners:
- the composition is not at all difficult to prepare;
- components are always available.
Why exactly yeast
The product is familiar to everyone, but how can it benefit tomatoes? It turns out a big one:
- Yeast improves the composition of the soil on the site. When feeding, microorganisms enter the soil. They serve as food for worms, the soil is enriched with humus and oxygen.
- Seedling if her feed with yeast, more easily tolerates the stress of transplanting and diving.
- Due to the intake of useful components and the improvement of soil fertility, the leaf mass and root system of the tomato grows well.
- The growth of new shoots on tomato bushes, fed with yeast, is increasing.
- The number of ovaries and, accordingly, fruits increases, the yield exceeds the usual rate.
- Tomatoes tolerate climatic fluctuations more easily and are more resistant to diseases. The most important advantage of feeding with yeast is the "immunity" of the tomato to late blight.
- Yeast dressings do not contain synthetic components, the fruits are hypoallergenic for children.
- The cost of the main component (yeast) is very budgetary.
In order not to apply chemical fertilizers under the tomatoes, gardeners use folk compositions. Dignity top dressing tomato yeast are obvious, so let's look at the method of their use.
How to feed tomatoes with yeast formulations
Tomatoes require feeding regardless of where they are grown. Both in the open field and in the greenhouse, you cannot do without additional food. Yeast feeding makes it possible to provide plants with basic trace elements for growth and development. It is better to apply conventional fertilizers to the soil before planting the tomatoes so that they can dissolve, and then in a convenient form go to the root system. The yeast solution is already working after planting tomatoes.
The first acquaintance of a tomato with yeast nutrition occurs already at the age of seedlings. There are two types of feeding tomatoes with yeast - foliar and root. Both methods are effective, differ in the method of application and composition. In addition, tomatoes are grown in different ways.
Root application
Experienced gardeners advise carrying out the first root feeding with yeast when two leaves appear on the seedlings. But this is not a basic and optional procedure. The yeast will be more beneficial after the second pick. It is made for tall varieties without fail, and for undersized varieties at will. A mixture is made of 5 teaspoons of sugar, a glass of wood ash (be sure to sift!) And a bag of dry baker's yeast. After mixing the components, let the mixture brew. Readiness is determined by the degree of fermentation (it should end), then the composition is diluted with warm water in a ratio of 1:10. This recipe is suitable for feeding tomato seedlings. But for adult plants, you can prepare a different mixture. First, a dough is made for feeding - 100 g of fresh yeast is diluted with warm water in combination with three tablespoons of sugar and diluted with three liters of water. Put the mixture for fermentation.When the process is over, you can apply the infusion. One glass of dough is added to a bucket of water (10 l) and tomatoes are poured.
Nettles and hops are excellent additions to this mixture.
Infusion of nettle, in general, is used for watering plants, and hops enhances fermentation processes.
Feeding tomatoes with yeast in the open field often occurs with the addition of wood ash and chicken droppings. To prepare the composition you will need:
- 10 grams of dry yeast;
- 0.5 l of chicken manure infusion;
- 0.5 l of wood ash;
- 10 liters of clean water;
- 5 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar.
Insist and water the tomatoes for a week. The dosage, which must be strictly adhered to, is as follows: adult tomatoes are watered with two liters of infusion, seedlings rooted in a new place are 0.5 liters. Some gardeners successfully replace bird droppings infusion of mullein.
Foliar nutrition
A very useful type of dressing for tomatoes. Helps gardeners in especially important periods of plant life. After transplanting seedlings to a permanent place of residence (in a greenhouse or under the open sky), root feeding is undesirable. The roots have not yet gained their strength and strength, so they are spraying.
Why is it beneficial?
- Foliar feeding of tomatoes with yeast can be carried out at the earliest stages of seedling life.
- The stem and leaf capillaries deliver nutrients in full. This process is much faster than when root feeding a tomato with yeast.
- Tomatoes receive useful components much faster than with root nutrition.
- Saving of compound substances for dressing.
Conditions for feeding
Any activities in the cultivation of garden crops require knowledge and strict adherence to certain rules. What you need to know when feeding a tomato with yeast?
- Timing parameters... Root dressing is carried out only when the soil is warmed up. The first time you should not rush, it is better to wait until the end of May or early June. At this time, the soil is sufficiently warmed up and the nutrients will be absorbed completely. The second aspect is the timing. It is optimal to feed tomatoes in the morning or evening without active sun. In greenhouses - in the morning, so that the plants dry up until the evening.
- Soil condition... Top dressing is not carried out on dry ground, but it is not worth pouring plants into it either. Therefore, before watering with a yeast composition, the earth is slightly moistened.
- Dosage... Yeast feeding should not be considered a completely harmless action. Overdosing will lead to a deterioration in the condition of the plants and a decrease in yield.
- Periodicity... Yeast feeding of tomatoes is carried out no more than 3-4 times for the whole season. They saturate the earth with nitrogen, but contribute to the excretion of potassium and calcium. Therefore, it is necessary to add wood ash to the infusion. The second option is to scatter it between the rows.
- Caution... This is important when chicken droppings are added to the feed. Do not pour the infusion directly under the tomato root. Better to introduce yeast nutrition into the periosteal grooves.
By properly feeding tomatoes with yeast, you will undoubtedly see the benefits. If you still have doubts, make an experimental bed.
Then it will be possible to compare the development of tomatoes with and without yeast nutrition.
In any case, you can:
- save on drugs;
- get more tasty and larger fruits;
- improve the composition of the soil.
Most importantly, you feed your tomatoes with an environmentally friendly, harmless composition. Feeding tomatoes with yeast is a proven and safe remedy. The fruits will be tasty, the plants will be healthy, the household will be happy.
