Follow this trick for tomato plants and you will see that you will have a yield of up to 30% more. You wouldn’t expect it, but it’s super simple.
Around May/June we started planting tomatoes . There are numerous varieties to choose from. There are round vine tomatoes or datterini tomatoes. Or even Cuori di bue tomatoes, San Marzano tomatoes, Costoluti tomatoes, Piennolo tomatoes and many other types. We cannot apply the trick we are about to show to all of them.
In fact, this trick is intended for tomato plants that develop vertically near the canes that you will place in the ground . There is a very specific reason and it refers to the femminella. The latter is nothing more than that sprout that is usually removed by going to do coverage and trimming work to give birth to other tomatoes.
The trick that we are going to show you will grow the crop 30% more and can be applied to plants with indeterminate growth . This means nothing more than that the plant will develop and bear fruit until the first cold weather arrives. Next, in the next paragraph, we see the details of this trick that you can do in your garden.
Tomatoes: use this trick to increase the harvest
This trick to make plants grow faster is to not put any fertilizer on the plants. The plant itself and its branches are exploited . Specifically, we are going to touch on femminella, or the part of the plant that we have already mentioned above.
As we have said, this trick can only be exploited on tall tomato plants with indeterminate growth (remember). In practice, instead of removing the females and therefore reducing yields, we make sure that they grow and become a new stem with many leaves, flowers and fruits .
These axillary shoots then, if not cut, become a new stem. As a result, the harvest will be larger, but since there is a new stem, the plant will require more nutrients . The plant, even if it will have more fruits, will not grow much, but will still be smaller. In any case, it is not recommended to keep all the females on the plant.
Only some may remain, but the others will still have to be removed. A plant invaded by leaves will perform better because there will also be less air circulation. Additionally, the plant becomes unstable with too many females . So do not overdo it in maintaining these shoots, in short we can say keep them on the right so as not to damage the plant.
Fertilizers for tomato plants.
In case you also want to use fertilizer for your tomato plants, we recommend some natural ones that you can prepare and use. Are here:
- Manure : it is the best organic fertilizer that can be used in the cultivation of this plant. However, it must come from non-industrial farms.
- Ash: Wood ash contains many minerals useful to the plant.
- Liquid solution : Pour a glass of unsweetened iced coffee into a bottle of warm water. You can use this solution simply as it is or enrich it with vegetable water for cooking.
These are some examples, but the best fertilizers for tomatoes are those rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium .