Growing and pricking made easy
In March, cultivation starts on the sunny windowsill sowing. After the seeds have soaked in water or chamomile tea for a few hours, they are sown in poor substrate. The light germs are given a wafer-thin layer of sand or earth so that they can be gently moistened. Pampered with warm temperatures of 20 to 24 degrees Celsius, germinate them within 10 to 14 days.
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So that the seedlings do not horny, move them to a cooler and at the same time brighter place. The plants are pricked out as soon as the second pair of leaves appears. Carefully transplanted in single pots with nutritious soil, growth now progresses rapidly. During this phase, the seedlings must neither dry up nor be drowned. They can't stand full sun yet.
Plant and care for them professionally
After the cold days around the ice saints, it's time to go outdoors. In the sunny
Location bed soil and pail substrate are enriched with compost. plants The young tomatoes so deep that the Earth reaches up to the lower leaves. in the eye keep a planting distance of 60-80 centimeters. A climbing aid supports upright, stable growth right from the start. The main care factors are:- regularly waterwithout wetting the foliage
- organically every 14 days from the second week onwards fertilize
- throughout season every few days weed out superfluous side shoots
- Break out competitive instincts to the trunk at the base
- Permanently attach long tendrils to the climbing aids
- repeated mulch within 10 centimeters around the root neck
Of central importance is a reliable one rain protection. If there is no place for tomatoes in the greenhouse, cover the plants with a tomato house or a special hood. Otherwise an infestation threatens with every rain shower Late blight.
Pollinate in the greenhouse and on the windowsill
Busy Bumblebees and bees cannot reach the flowers of tomato plants in closed rooms to act as pollinators. The hobby gardener takes on this function. Immediately after flowering, the plants are shaken at noon. Alternatively, you can stroke the flowers with a brush so that the pollen is distributed for fertilization.
Tips & Tricks
Do not throw away the stripped parts of tomatoes. Dried and burned, they turn into an excellent fertilizer for next year's growing. The ash is particularly rich in potassium. Tomato plants need this nutrient even more urgently than nitrogen, because it promotes fruit formation.