Summer period is a hot time. We must have time to grow a rich harvest, prepare supplies for the long winter. You can’t do without tomatoes: they are good in fresh salads in summer, they go great for juice, lecho, which is so wonderful to get out of the cellar in winter. Sharing recipes for a good harvest among themselves, summer residents often remember that fertilizing tomatoes with yeast is practiced on their site. What is the effect of this procedure, let's analyze together.
Composition and action of yeast
Yeast is rich in protein and carbohydrates, trace elements, as well as B vitamins and minerals. When dissolved in water, all these substances are transferred to the solution, which means that they can be freely absorbed by the roots of plants. But that is not all. Feeding a tomato with yeast allows you to isolate compounds that improve the development of the root system and actively support its growth due to vitamins necessary for full development and stimulating recovery processes.
At the same time, the yeast fungus is quite viable, it tolerates drying and freezing, pressing and changing temperatures. But the neighborhood with other bacteria, more aggressive, it does notsurvive. That is why feeding a tomato with yeast should be carried out separately from the introduction of bird droppings, manure or chopped grass.
Yeast in the garden
Yeast is an excellent growth stimulant for plants. They are rich in nutrients in themselves, but in addition, they are able to improve soil microflora and suppress the development of many pathogenic microorganisms. Feeding a tomato with yeast consistently leads to a good result. At the same time, there are a large number of recipes that summer residents use. Below we will consider the most popular of them.
At the same time, not only adult plants in the beds are fed. Feeding tomato seedlings with yeast ensures their good growth and development, as well as faster adaptation to open ground conditions after planting.
Raw or dry
For gardeners, any yeast is suitable, the main thing is to prepare them correctly. Top dressing of tomato seedlings with yeast is most often performed using a dry instant product. To do this, you need to take only 100 g of yeast and 10 liters of slightly warm water. To activate the yeast, you need to add 2 tablespoons of sugar. After two hours, your sourdough is ready, now it needs to be brought to working condition. To do this, dilute the workpiece to 50 liters with water. Raw baker's yeast is also often used by gardeners, but we'll talk more about that later.
Yeast top dressing for tomatoes: the secret of success
This is far from a new way, a few generations ago, people actively practiced fertilizing tomatoes with yeast in the plots. Reviews of experienced gardeners suggest that the effectiveness of this tool is no worse than that of many ready-made fertilizers, of which there are so many on the shelves today. After all, it is an excellent growth stimulant, a dietary supplement that can activate the internal resources of the plant. At the same time, there are certain rules according to which you can perform the procedure without risking your home garden crops. The first time top dressing of tomatoes with dry yeast is performed a week after planting in the ground. After their final rooting, the procedure should be repeated. The third time it is produced before flowering. Each time the composition is identical, only the dosage changes: for a young plant, half a liter of the mixture is enough for one bush, and for an adult tomato, it is necessary to increase the volume to two liters.
Which plants most readily respond to such top dressing
Almost all garden plants grow very well after such procedures. Excellent results show indoor and garden flowers, fruit bushes, trees and vegetables. Of the latter, pepper, tomato, and cucumbers react the most to yeast. Literally before our eyes, a leaf opens and turns green, active growth, flowering begins, fruits are tied. The yield rises sharply. Top dressing tomato shows itself bestyeast solution. Gardeners claim that in the beds that are watered with such fertilizer, juicy, fleshy, large fruits grow, and the bushes themselves remain fresh and green until late autumn. That is, until the very cold weather, you will have fresh vegetables.
Preparing top dressing on our own
Florists, through trial and error, practice a variety of ways to introduce yeast into the soil. This is the addition of fresh, dry or pressed yeast directly to the soil. To do this, a small depression is made in the soil, into which fertilizer is laid, after which it is covered with earth. Immediately at the time of watering, the yeast dissolves and enriches the soil. Simple and convenient. But the following recipe for feeding tomatoes with yeast proved to be the best. This is a solution of fresh or dry yeast. To prepare it, you will need one part of fertilizer and five parts of warm milk. For example, 200 g will require a liter of milk. Stir and leave to increase in volume for 2 hours. After that, the base must be diluted with ten parts of water and used for top dressing at the root. When using dry yeast, the recipe does not change, only instead of milk you can take water, to which you need to add 60 g of sugar.
Other recipes
It doesn't take long to make an effective yeast-based fertilizer. Moreover, if you don’t have yeast on hand, you can always replace it with bread, crackers or a mixture of flour and water. True, in this case, the nutritious infusion should stand in order tomicroorganisms have evolved. To speed up the process, add a little beer or kefir. Such a simple technique as feeding a tomato with yeast in a greenhouse was used by gardeners as early as the dawn of the 70s, when they had to put homemade sourdough, since there was no yeast to be found in the store. Let's see what they are and if you can make them at home.
Natural starter cultures
It is the fermentation process that causes the rapid growth of microorganisms, which are a natural growth activator for plants. If your yard is growing hops, then don't get rid of them: the cones are great for making sourdough. A glass of dry or fresh cones is placed in boiling water and boiled for about an hour. When the broth has cooled, 2 tablespoons of sugar and 4 tablespoons of flour are added to it. For two days, the mixture should be removed in a warm place. After that, 2 grated potatoes are added to the infusion and again cleaned in a warm place for a day. The finished sourdough can be diluted with ten parts of water and water the bed.
If there is no hops, then you can take ordinary wheat. A glass of grains must be soaked and left for a day so that the sprouts hatch. Now you need to grind the resulting raw materials into porridge and add 2 tablespoons of sugar and flour. You should get a mixture similar to thick sour cream. Within 20 minutes, the mass must be boiled over low heat and left for 24 hours to soured.
In order for cucumbers to grow well, the following recipe will do. Take a glass of onion peel, pour a liter of water andput on fire for one hour. When the time is up, the broth must be drained and cooled. Add 100 g of yeast and 30 g of granulated sugar, leave in a warm place to ferment for a day. Now you can dilute the sourdough (to a full bucket) and water the cucumbers. This culture loves bread very much, so you can safely pour all the crumbs and crusts that are at hand into the sourdough.
Universal starter
The following top dressing of tomatoes with yeast has proven itself especially well. Reviews confirm that such a recipe is optimal, gives strength to the plant, increases productivity and resistance to various diseases. An iron bucket or other container with a volume of 10 liters must be filled with bread crusts. If you have old jam, add that too. In addition, you will need a glass of ash, sour milk and a pack of dry yeast. Fill the container with warm water and place in a warm place for souring. Twice a day, the mixture must be stirred, and after a week the sourdough will be ready. Use it in the most common way, mixing with water in a ratio of one to ten. One bush will require two liters of solution.
Memo to the gardener
Do not forget that yeast needs heat, so they are not only bred in warm water, but also brought into already warm soil in good weather. You can not leave the sourdough for a long time, each time it must be freshly prepared. It is often not recommended to feed crops with yeast, because oversaturation of the earth will lead to a deterioration in the crop and the death of plants. This also applies to the amount of raw materials introduced into the soil: more does not mean better. Andfinally, fertilizing with yeast should be supplemented by the application of ash. This will make up for the deficiency of calcium and potassium, which are absorbed during fermentation.
In closing
Feeding seedlings of tomatoes and peppers with yeast is an effective and inexpensive way to get a great harvest in your garden. In just a few minutes you get a universal growth stimulant and vitamin supplement. Two or three top dressings per season make it possible to significantly increase the yield of your beds, as well as the quality of the fruits obtained.
