As soon as the warm days come, it's time to go to the dacha with seedlings that you have grown at home and previously hardened on the balcony. A couple of weeks before the trip, cover the greenhouse with foil or install a polycarbonate structure. Dig up the earth inside it, apply organic fertilizers and mark the place where you plan to plant tomatoes. Grandmothers know how to plant tomato seedlings, so let's trust their many years of experience and work on the technology of our beloved relatives.
There are many planting technologies, but it is worth considering the climate in which you live, so the advice in this article will be given to residents of the Moscow region and everyone who lives on the same parallel with them. For the convenience of planting a heat-loving crop, prepare holes with a depth of half a bayonet of a shovel. The distance between them is 35-40 cm. Do not look that your seedlings are still small. She quickly goes togrowth, the leaves will be distributed in breadth, so there is not enough room for one crop if you regret the extra space.
You can, of course, read books where scientists advise how to plant tomato seedlings, but there is no guarantee that your varieties are the same hybrids that doctors of sciences were busy with. If you like to grow tomatoes in a ditch, then don't forget to add nitrophoska or urea to it, sprinkle it with plenty of ash, add manure that has rotted over the winter and pour warm water from the barrel that your children so carefully pitched into the "pie filling".
How to plant tomato seedlings, all the villagers know, so the preparatory work is carried out at dawn, while it is cool in the greenhouse. During the day they are busy in the garden, but in the evening, when the sun will soon go below the horizon, they begin a new stage of work.
If your tomatoes are grown in 1 stalk, then you can plant them opposite each other, leaving a distance between the trunks of 70-75 cm. Two-stem crops require 60 cm between themselves and the same amount between the beds. This layout will save you from further questions about how to plant tomato seedlings, because such numbers are considered optimal for large greenhouses.
If you grew green shoots in plastic cups, then before dragging a tomato out of them, pour plenty of water on the ground at room temperature and, turning the “pot” upside down, squeeze the plant, holding the trunk with your hand. Now start planting in the holes.
This requires some skill, so keep an eye on Grandma and listen carefully to her comments on how to plant seedlings. Do you see that she does not lower the plant vertically into the ground, but slightly tilts it towards her? This is done so that a wide root system is formed, otherwise the plant will break under its own weight and under the weight of the fruits. For the convenience of watering, you can use plastic bottles without caps at the neck. Dig them into the ground next to the tomato bush and do not water the entire area where weeds will also grow, but fill only the free space of the bottle.
How to plant seedlings of tomatoes, you already know. Now it's worth talking about the microclimate in the greenhouse. Tomatoes perfectly tolerate moist soil, but high humidity is deadly for them. Phytophthora will instantly climb into an unventilated space and in a week can destroy both young shoots and the entire crop, so there should be two doors in the greenhouse, which it is advisable to keep open all day.
