Rules for feeding tomato seedlings with ash

Recently, gardeners give preference to natural types of fertilizing, a special place among which is wood ash. In terms of the number of micro- and macrocells, it can compete with fertilizers produced at chemical plants; therefore, feeding tomato seedlings with ash has become widespread.

Rules for feeding tomato seedlings with ash

Feeding characteristics

Ash is a product of combustion of organic substances, it contains a large amount of potassium, phosphorus, calcium. All elements are easily absorbed Tsya:

1. The content of magnesium helps to increase productivity and improve the taste of the fruit.
2. The plant becomes more hardy and absorbs nitrogen from the soil, due to the content of calcium in wood ash.
3. Potash protects tomatoes from pests. It also helps to increase frost resistance, gives the tomato brightness and aroma.
4. Moisture, along with the nutrients necessary for garden crops during growth, drought, is transported with sodium.

Ash residue can be stored quite long. To do this, it is poured into hermetically sealed vessels, so that liquid that can wash all useful elements does not enter it.

Benefits of ash

Ash can:

• reduce the acidity of the soil;
• increase the alkali content in the earth;
• have a beneficial effect on increasing the number of beneficial microorganisms in the soil;
• protect tomatoes from fungal diseases;
• keep the effect of the use of fertilizer.

The composition does not contain chlorine, which is very useful for tomatoes, so it can be used even when harvesting seeds for seedlings.

For feeding tomatoes, it is recommended to use only stove ash. As a fertilizer, you can not use the remains of the combustion of plastic, rubber, other items that are the result of chemical production. They contain a huge amount of not only useless, but even dangerous components for human health and garden crops.

Methods of fertilizer

Fertilizers are used in different ways:

• apply dry to the soil;
• in the form of an ash solution;
• sprinkling tomato beds;
• spraying tomato sprouts.

Tomatoes react intensively to such top dressing. The color of the stems and foliage becomes saturated green, the green mass and inflorescences gain juiciness. At the same time, if top dressing of tomato seedlings with ash did not bring any benefit to the plant, there will be no changes. In this case, it is advisable to re-treat the tomatoes.

When feeding tomatoes with ash residue, we must not forget that an excess of ash in the soil can adversely affect both the soil and the tomatoes. When using such fertilizer as top dressing, it cannot be mixed with other organic fertilizers.

Feeding rules

Most often gardeners use top dressing in liquid form. To do this, prepare a solution of 150 g of ash and 10 l of water. The consumption of this mixture is ½ liter per one bush of tomatoes. Around the plant, a groove is made, fertilizer is poured into it and sprinkled with earth. Topping up seedlings of any tomatoes with an ash solution prepared according to the above recipe should be carried out no more than once every 2 weeks.

It is advised to boil the ash for 30 minutes, then it is insisted. Only after that it is permissible to feed tomato seedlings with ash.

Ash has a powerful disinfecting property, and also kills the pathogens. Fertilizing tomato seedlings with wood ash can also be used as a weapon against garden pests and diseases. Such a solution must be supplemented with 40-50 g of laundry soap. It is added so that the mixture “sticks” to the leaves of the tomatoes.

It is recommended to spray tomato seedlings in the evening, when the sun goes down enough and cannot burn the leaves of the plant.If measures are taken to combat slugs, the solution is simply poured around the bushes.

Seed processing

Liquid fertilizing of tomatoes is used during the preparation of planting material. It disinfects tomato seeds. For this, the seeds are dipped in a solution prepared at the rate of 1 tsp. dry ingredient in 1 liter of water. The best effect is achieved when using melt or rain water. The mixture is infused for a day, after which tomato seeds are lowered into it and left for 5-6 hours.

During the fruiting period

During the ripening period, it is recommended to use an ash infusion prepared according to the following recipe : 1 liter of ash is poured into 10 liters of water, then let the solution brew for 7 days. After the specified time, the infusion is passed through a filter and added 20 ml of iodine, 10 mg of boric acid. The resulting mixture is quite concentrated, so it is diluted in a ratio of 1:10. The consumption of this solution is 1 liter per 10 bushes of tomatoes.

Recommendations for use

1. Application is carried out when digging the ground on future beds of tomatoes. This is done twice a year: in the fall after harvesting, when preparing the garden for wintering, and in the spring after the snow melts and the earth warms up. For each square meter, 150-200 g of fertilizer is used. This simple operation contributes to the rapid rooting of tomato seedlings. In the future, stronger, more disease-resistant plants will grow from the sprouts.In addition, the quality and quantity of the crop becomes much higher.
2. When planting seedlings in open ground, 1 tablespoon is added to prepared wells. fertilizers, then sprinkle each hole with earth. Then they place tomato seedlings in them.
3. Ash has a protective function. Places of cuts and broken stems, covered with ash powder, do not rot and do not attract garden pests.
4. During flowering, the soil is sprinkled with ash around each tomato bush. For 1 square. m of tomato beds leaves half a glass of dry fertilizer. This improves the taste of tomatoes.

After heavy watering, gardeners recommend adding 50 g of ash powder to each bush.

Conclusion

The use of ash as a fertilizer for tomatoes has a beneficial effect on the growth of the plant, the growth of green mass, the formation of ovaries, and ripening of fruits. Root and foliar feeding of tomatoes with residues of combustion of organic substances does not cause much trouble.

There are no difficulties in preparing ash solutions; it does not require additional investment or labor. The result of timely feeding will please any gardener.