Hot To Grow Tomatoes Without Watering!Heres Our Trick!

I have always been disturbed by the lot of work in the garden, especially when it comes to growing tomatoes.

In an attempt to get rid of the hard work, I’ve always been looking for any technology that makes work easier. I was very attracted to organic farming, whose essence is the creation of a natural-type vegetable garden and maximum use of plant capacity.

However, I have a particular problem with irrigation. So I turn to advice in growing tomatoes without irrigation to a gardener – an experimenter with 40 years of experience.

The meaning of the method is: With periodic watering, though rarely – once a week or two stimulates the growth of the root system until the onset of fertilization. Nutrients and moisture are sufficient for stem development.

In this case, do not grow roots because nothing happens without any benefit in nature. And the roots begin to grow vigorously only at the time of fruiting. As a result, fructification slows down and yields decline.

In the absence of watering the roots begin to look for moisture when the soil dries. In this case, long before the fruiting, a strong root system develops, which can reliably feed not only the stem but also to give a rich harvest.

I was only obliged not to water after planting seedlings to increase my roots,my experience started in 2009. In early May I planted 37 tomato seedlings in a greenhouse, placing the stems horizontally. I also left some plants planted by the usual method – vertically. I polished them well and let them “survive.”

The main thing in this method is that the plants can withstand and not be watered until they start to wither.

The spring was cold, I had a greenhouse with no additional heating, and I laid the rainbow with the cover material over the plants. Until early June, my tomatoes developed. When the threat of frost passes, good roots began to form, cleaned the roots a second time, and I buried under the stems old nylon for heating the soil. A third time after the first fruits in early July. Still, I had a greenhouse, not an open place. Care has been taken only in shaping, cleaning of diseased and yellowed leaves. I smoked twice with carbon dioxide, which is released during the burning of “greenhouse”.

I did another try in parallel. I read in a newspaper how a prominent agronomist explains that tomato seedlings should be maximally illuminated at the moment of the release of the seedlings. In the first few days, it is desirable to have daylight. I found a device that measures the illumination, I bought a lamp and did everything as recommended in the newspaper. Of course, on control plants.

And that’s what happened. I turned the red tomatoes in July, and then I started to pick the green ones (my relatives insisted). The end of the season in the greenhouse is at the end of September. I gathered about 30 buckets of tomatoes. I did not expect such a yield. The best plants were those that lit up around the clock and were planted horizontally. Control crops also yielded yields, but not so much or much later. They could not reach their potential.

The varieties this year are different: both for salad and for canning. I decided to plant in the new year only varieties of large fruit and not to pick them green but to wait for them to ripen. I saved myself with seeds and new knowledge. The lectures in our club told us how to make the day-to-day illumination of seedlings properly, how to water, to avoid soil compaction and how to plant seedlings.

We haven’t learned to wait for the weak seedlings to pull, but to leave only the strongest plants by removing the lower leaves before planting in the ground. Thus, plants will be subject to less stress when planting. I learned another method. After transplantation into the ground, it is usually advisable to feed the plants in the garden with liquid fertilizer at least 2 weeks later when the plants are strengthened. But at the lecture they recommended to feed with liquid fertilizer 2 days after planting and not later! I wondered again what the meaning of not being watered was.

Everything else I did as in the previous year, I just added spraying with a homeopathic remedy (the summer was very cold). The first fruit matured at the end of June, and all in July we all ate large red tomatoes. It turns out that light and lack of irrigation have done their job, and the harvest is ripe early.

I did not weigh the crop, but I had never eaten such delicious and sweet tomatoes. Do not think I boast. I even surprised my sister, which is a producer of tomatoes, as well as its numerous guests … By the end of the season, fruit giants grew from 700 grams to 1100 grams.

Of course, there were problems with me too. In the heat, I had to look for additional methods of ventilating the greenhouse.

I needed to do better soil cooling and, of course, to find good seeds.

Good harvest can also grow with watering if it is time-irrigated and if there is good ventilation, but this is another technology. For me, this method is more appropriate because it reduces labor costs, relieves me of a lot of free time and does not reduce the yield.

In addition, tomatoes are much sweeter than usual because the water is less and has a relatively larger amount of sugar.

Last year, I decided to change the method a bit. Seedlings planted it later, so most plants were “younger”. I read that it is easier for them to adapt, and they will suffer less from grafting. I decided to plant them vertically so that they do not waste time in the formation of roots. So I wanted to speed up the fruitfulness. Result: When I first cut off a red tomato in 2010 at the end of June, last year it was 2 weeks later. The plants had just gained strength and arrived at a cooler time. They had to cook mainly green tomatoes, and they are not so delicious.

That was my negative experience. But here’s the other two methods I liked a lot. First I darkened the windows in my greenhouse on both sides and lowered the temperature in the hot days. Second, I used the bottles method. I live in the north and the soil in May should be warm. After planting around the plants I scattered bottles of water. My tomatoes have been much easier

The cold weather.

This year I want to use new seedling techniques, but by all methods I will choose what is most suitable for me.

All tomatoes grown in a greenhouse are watered in the summer only 3 times.

The first watering is during the planting.

The second watering is in early June.

The third watering is in early July.

Multiming in tomatoes

In autumn you get such beauties.

That’s what’s growing in my garden.