Feeding tomatoes with yeast in the greenhouse

Preparatory work in the greenhouse

By growing any plant in a greenhouse, a person takes full responsibility for the viability of the plant. It depends only on the person what the soil will be in the greenhouse, the frequency of watering and feeding the plants. The general condition of the plant, its flowering, fruiting and productivity will depend on the quality of a person's work in greenhouses. Of course, the quantitative indicator of the yield is important for every gardener. But do not forget about the quality of the products, including the taste, which can be lost in the race for maximum yields.

Taking care of the healthy and taste qualities of tomatoes, many modern gardeners turn to folk recipes that our ancestors used. In particular, for feeding tomatoes with yeast.

Yeast as fertilizer

The simplest and most common type of tomato feeding, including in the greenhouse, is yeast. Feeding with yeast helps plants replenish nutrients for better growth and higher yields. It is also a prophylaxis against various types of diseases and pests.

Yeast is a living organism. When they get into the soil, they interact with the microorganisms located there. This makes it easier for tomatoes to absorb nutrients from the soil. Feeding with yeast provides tomatoes with nitrogen and phosphorus necessary for growth and development. Another important factor in yeast use is price. Yeast is significantly cheaper than most chemical fertilizers.

The chemical industry provides gardeners with everything from vitamins and fertilizers to various types of poisons for pest control. Against this background, ordinary yeast can be called a natural alternative to EM preparations. EM drug, a drug with effective microorganisms, these are concentrates. They contain beneficial microorganisms. But they cost much more than regular yeast.

For good performance yeast feeding requires microorganisms in the soil. This should be taken into account when choosing a place for a greenhouse. The greenhouse soil was filled with organic matter. To do this, you can add a bucket of humus or compost to one square meter of soil.

Such organic preparation of greenhouse soil for growing tomatoes will allow you to grow crops without additional fertilizers, except for yeast. To reduce the amount of watering in greenhouses and keep the soil moist enough, you can cover the ground with straw or mulch with sawdust.

But there are also downsides to using yeast feeding. This is the absorption of large amounts of potassium and calcium by the yeast. To solve this problem, it is enough to sprinkle the beds with wood ash after feeding the tomatoes with yeast. This is a unique fertilizer that contains a large amount of trace elements. Including calcium and potassium trace elements.

Feeding tomatoes with yeast contributes to the development of the root system of plants. They can be found in chemical stimulants for the development of vegetative root systems. As a fertilizer, yeast has a beneficial effect on plant growth and development.

Namely: more active development of the root system of the plant and its aboveground part occurs. The number of fruit ovaries increases and the term for fruit ripening is reduced. The number of plants susceptible to diseases decreases, primarily late blight. Plants become more resistant to temperature extremes and changes in weather conditions.The soil on which tomatoes are grown using yeast feeding is enriched with many trace elements. Therefore, the harvest from such land can be considered a pure ecological product.

Recipe for feeding tomatoes with yeast

Prepare top dressing using yeast in different ways. For example, use with regular watering of plants or as an additional spraying of bushes.
Root feeding with yeast solution can be started even on tomato seedlings, when the first few leaves of the young plant have appeared.

The recipe is simple: 100 grams of yeast is dissolved in 1 liter of water. After a couple of hours, another 9 liters of warm water are added to the resulting solution. A solution is obtained in the ratio of 100 grams of yeast per 10 liters of water. Do not leave the prepared solution for a long time. Therefore, use the yeast dressing the same day it is prepared.

Feeding tomatoes with yeast early in growth will help the tomatoes have a strong and dense trunk. After planting the seedlings in the greenhouse, you can carry out another top dressing of the soil.

For this period of plant growth, the following recipe is recommended: 1 kg of yeast is dissolved in 5 liters of water at a temperature of + 40-50 ° C. It is better to leave the resulting mixture for a couple of days. Then dilute with water at room temperature in a ratio of 1 to 10. During this period of development, for each tomato bush, you should spend up to 1 leaf of yeast dressing.

There is a similar folk recipe for preparing top dressing from yeast for this period of tomato growth: 100 g of sugar and 100 g of yeast are stirred in 3 liters of water. They are placed in a warm place. The solution should be infused. Then it is diluted: 1 liter of the infused liquid per 5 liters of water. With such a solution, it is better to carry out root dressing of tomatoes and not to use it for spraying bushes.

Dry yeast is also suitable for feeding tomato bushes. Their activity and efficiency are slightly lower than live yeast. The recipes for preparing solutions with dry yeast are exactly the same as with fresh yeast. Only they need more time to brew.

Yeast is also used to control pests and protect tomatoes from disease. To do this, it is necessary to spray the leaves and stem of the plant with a yeast solution. For greater efficiency, the yeast solution is not prepared in water, but using dairy products, milk or whey. The same 100 g of yeast mixture per 1 liter of liquid. Water 1 to 9 is added to the resulting solution, that is, 9 liters of water are used per 1 sheet of milk solution. Add 25-35 drops of iodine to the resulting spray solution. It is recommended to spray tomato bushes with this solution before flowering and fruiting.

Rules for feeding tomatoes with yeast in a greenhouse

To maximize the effectiveness of yeast feeding, a number of rules must be followed. It is necessary to feed plants with yeast at an air temperature of + 13-15 ° C. At lower temperatures, yeast is poorly activated. When growing tomatoes in greenhouses, such temperature conditions come early enough, which has a beneficial effect on yield.

It is worth considering the material from which the greenhouse is made. For example, in polycarbonate ones - the air temperature is higher than in greenhouses made of other materials. Therefore, when preparing top dressing for tomato bushes growing in polycarbonate greenhouses, it is better not to insist the solution, but to use freshly prepared one.

Feeding tomatoes with yeast may be the only fertilizer. But do not overdo it: in one season, it is enough to feed the tomatoes no more than 2-3 times. The effectiveness of yeast feeding is not worse than many mineral fertilizers. Therefore, do not forget about the mandatory presence of wood ash in the life of a plant after each yeast feeding.

The use of yeast feeding for tomatoes grown in greenhouses does not harm the plant, the crop, or the soil on which it was used.