Tomato, this familiar fruit of all of South America, is popular for good reason. It is not only full of beneficial micro and macro elements, vitamins and antioxidants, but also “removes” thrombosis, intestinal obstruction and varicose veins, is useful for the cardiovascular system and strengthens the immune system.
But if you think about your own tomato beds, you should remember about their capriciousness. As an effective way of dealing with it, it is worth considering garter and pasynkovanie tomatoes in the greenhouse.
Purpose of the garter
Tomato garter do not use in hot climatic zones. In such conditions, the stem of a tomato is additionally fed from the ground. But in our climate, even in greenhouse conditions, this option will not work.
The following varieties are suitable for growing in the greenhouse: “Red is Red”, “Cardinal”, “Verlioka”, “Verlioka Plus”, “Spasskaya Tower”, “Golden Heart”, “Aelita Sanka”, “Bely pouring”, “Bobcat”, "Red Guard", "Mikado Pink", "Kate", "Maryina Roshcha", "Pink Honey".
To get a decent harvest tomatoes will have to tie up in the greenhouse - This will give a number of advantages:
- protect the stems from damage;
- prevention of diseases of tomatoes due to ventilation of their stems and the lack of contact of plants with the ground;
- saving fruits from slugs;
- additional space in the greenhouse;
- additional illumination of the culture with sunlight;
- providing ease of processing bushes - it will be easier to collect and spray the fruit, and also to form the crown.
Greenhouse methods
Below we look at the methods of garter tomatoes in a polycarbonate greenhouse, and illustrate them with the help of video.
To increase the flowering of tomatoes can be treated with boric acid, which will also serve as additional feeding.
Pegs
For garters, you can use stakes:
- Set at a distance of several centimeters near each bush peg. Height is selected at the discretion, the optimum - 1 meter; The count must be 27 cm higher than the bush - it is driven into such depth to such a depth. When using wooden rods, coat them with linseed oil and then with oil paint - this will save them from damage.
- Tie a tomato stalk to a bar with a rope or a piece of fabric near the top of a bush, making several turns and tying a bandage into a knot. Use clean garters. For disinfection suitable boiling water or laundry soap.
Important! An adult tomato bush consumes from 3 to 6 liters of water per day, so without a powerful watering a bountiful crop is not obtained. And in general, the tomato is a tropical plant: it is not afraid of moisture.The main disadvantage of the method is that the “ring” will have to be tied up as the culture grows.
Did you know? In the pavilion of the Chinese amusement park Walt Disney World Resort in Beijing in a large greenhouse grow tomato trees, which in China are called octopus tomato trees. The average yield of an octopus tree is about 14,000 tomatoes.
Stretching
No less common linear method:
- at both ends of the beds, put on a thick bar, at least 5 centimeters thick;
- connect their tops with metal wire;
- Wrap each bush at the base with a string, and then tie it to the wire.
The beauty of the approach is that the plants will not need to be rewound as they grow - they will hang the ropes themselves.
Trellis
The most expensive method is trellis:
- Place wood or metal trellis along the height of the plants throughout the garden.
- Stretch between the first string or wire in steps of 30-40 centimeters.
- Next, you bind growing tomatoes, like wicker, stretched ropes from one side to the other. Heavy brushes can be tied to the trellis or hung on hooks.
The advantage of the technology is in reliability and in that it allows you to increase the yield at the expense of stepsons, which are also passed through the ropes.
What to do before the garter?
Before the garter of tomatoes in a greenhouse made of polycarbonate should carefully crape tomatoes.
Important! Pasony - the process of removal of stepsons, lateral shoots from the axils of the leaves of tomato. If they are not removed, the bush will grow with stems with flowers and "forget" about the fruit. As a result of following the procedure, up to 7 fertile hands can grow on a bush.
Breaking steps is necessary every ten days, not allowing them to grow by more than 5 cm. To break them, it is enough just to pull them down. By performing the operation correctly, you will get more than 3 kilograms of fruit from each bush.
How to tie up plants
The only true way to tie up plants does not exist - everyone is free to choose what he likes. But they can be divided into classical and garter tapener, which we consider below.
The seedling method is most popular in the cultivation of tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, eggplants, as well as flowers.
Classic
Both natural and synthetic fabric can be used as collars. Its strip should be wide (4 cm) and strong. Reusable material - pantyhose and nylon socks, which are disinfected once a year, as well as various plastic devices, such as clips.
The garter
An alternative to the classic method of winding is a binder (tapener) - a device for garter vines, climbing and creeping plants, including tomatoes. He does everything he needs: he fastens the tomato in the greenhouse and the pedestal with tape, fixes it with a clip and cuts it. You need to provide yourself with consumables: elastic tape and metal clips.
Are there different ways to garter in the open field?
If you are wondering if there is a difference between a garter in a greenhouse and in an open field, the answer is no. There is no difference: both the necessary materials and technologies are identical - however, in the greenhouse, tomatoes grow faster, which is an important plus.
Did you know? Tomatoes have serotonin, called the hormone of happiness, and thiamin, an anti-neurotic vitamin. Therefore, tomatoes, especially pink, calm the nervous system. Tomatoes work in stressful situations as antidepressants.
We understood how to tie up tomatoes in the greenhouse, and learned Some important lessons:
- it is easier to damage a formed bush, therefore the garter should be carried out at early stages of its development;
- thanks to the stepsons, the bush grows, but the fruits on them ripen rarely enough. In the meantime, the stepchildren take nutrients from the plant - therefore, it is advisable to seedling the seedlings, which is much easier to do on tied bushes;
- garter is effective primarily for tall tomatoes, which bend under the weight of the fruit;
- in greenhouses, they cultivate mostly tall varieties - they are more fruitful, which is more economically advantageous; therefore, it makes sense to combine these or other methods of gartering tomatoes in order to get the maximum benefit from the minimum areas.
Finally - A few words about contraindications for the use of tomato:
- it is worth temporarily abandoning the use of canned tomatoes in the event that a doctor prescribes a salt-free diet, since they contain a lot of salt;
- Do not eat tomato fruits if you are allergic to dyes in it or vitamin C. You can consider the option of "yellow" varieties, because they contain less (5 mgk) of ascorbic acid;
- Do not eat tomatoes if you have gastritis, pancreatitis, or stomach ulcers.
Important! In no case do not eat unripe tomatoes in fresh form, because they contain poison solanine.When solanine enters the body, headache, weakness, nausea, shortness of breath.
