With the arrival of spring, many cottagers are seized with anxiety. How do I fit all the tomato seedlings on the windowsills? Will it be possible to organize effective additional lighting of seedlings? How can we ensure optimal temperature conditions for them? How to have time to unpick all the green brotherhood and how to place it then on the balcony for hardening?
Don’t you think tomatoes are causing us too much trouble? The hard-won crop can quickly discourage gardening. What if you sow the seeds immediately in the ground and save yourself a lot of trouble?
Advantages
Wise gardeners, who put their own health at the forefront, have long realized that during the spring sowing season it is not necessary to work so hard. First of all, this applies to everyone’s favorite tomatoes, which traditionally occupy the main area of window sills. Love with love, and so hard to bow to the plants is absolutely not necessary.
If you follow simple rules, this culture will develop perfectly when direct sowing of seeds on the bed. It is great if this bed is located in a greenhouse: the hassle will be reduced by half. But even in the open ground, you can organize everything so that you can feel the full charm of such a “lazy” approach.
Reducing labor costs
It is this factor that encourages cottagers to go to a non-cascading experiment. With this approach, there is no need to prepare the substrate in the fall and look for a place to store it. Do you use a purchased soil carrier? You will not need to spend money on it. The same applies to seedling pots, cups and boxes.
Worry about the fact that the window sills are not rubber, now do not have to. There will be no need to clutter the Windows with shelves and attach tables that could accommodate the entire green army. And the lights? How much skill is needed to ensure the correct illumination of seedlings! And the fight? How much effort and time it takes!
If you completely abandon the cultivation of tomato seedlings, you will no longer have to freeze with it in the same room. Or do you not follow the correct temperature regime? Then what kind of do-gooders you eventually grow! And the process of hardening seedlings before planting in the ground? After all,” walking ” seedlings in the open air first needs 1-2 hours, then 3-4, etc. Don’t you get tired of moving cups from your room to your balcony and back every day?
If you live in a private house, and the garden is near you, you are very lucky. After all, for urban cottagers, the process of growing seedlings is not even so terrible as its transportation to a permanent place. How much trouble and trouble is caused by placing a car in the cabin and transporting green sissies through city traffic jams, and then along the suburban dirt road with its “lovely” holes and bumps!
Long tomato season
If you do not completely give up growing seedlings, and unload yourself (and the window sills) only half, you can significantly extend the period of collecting thick-cheeked tomatoes. Tomatoes grown through seedlings will begin to bear fruit at the earliest possible time, and seedless specimens will pick up the baton a little later.
In mild August and September weather, ground plants will significantly extend the harvest period. If you also choose to plant hardy varieties and hybrids, you can continue to eat fresh tomatoes until late autumn (if, of course, you store the fruit at an optimal temperature).
A more generous harvest
Getting enough light and getting used to Spartan conditions from infancy, seedless tomatoes grow stronger and more hardy. They have a steely character and great resilience. It is not necessary to dive and replant plants, which means that their root system continues to develop intensively throughout the season, sometimes going to a depth of 1.5-2 m. They have thick stems and well-developed leaf apparatus.
These sturdy ones are able to extract moisture from the soil themselves and do not require as frequent watering as their seedling brethren-invalids, who are constantly prevented from living: they break off the roots during transplants. It is also worth adding the disease resistance of soil plants — which is a direct consequence of their high immunity and enviable hardening. What do you think will yield strong, healthy bushes? Of course, excellent!
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