Tomatoes can also be planted before winter

Last year, as an experiment, I decided to try a new way of planting tomatoes before winter, it was too much praised. As a result, now I will grow seedlings exclusively this way! And here's why...

An experienced summer resident knows that there should be a lot of tomato seedlings, because God forbid they get sick with blackleg or something else, they will have to buy them, paying at least 30 rubles for each bush.As a result, in the spring, in the houses of farming lovers, there are only bowls and cups all around, which need to be neatly placed and each plant must be monitored.

And if you plant tomatoes before winter, then so many shoots appear that there is nowhere to put them, and you certainly won’t be left without seedlings! This is only one of the advantages that pushed me to such a bold experiment; I discovered the rest later and was extremely pleasantly surprised.

In the fall, right before the frost, I prepared the beds for planting tomatoes, dug up the soil and made holes in it for the fruits. Yes, no seeds!!! She planted them exclusively with fruits, a tomato in each hole, and buried them so that a two-centimeter layer of soil covered them on top. After planting, the bed was covered with a layer of compost and spruce branches were added. My vegetables lived in this form all winter.

It is not recommended to use hybrid varieties of tomatoes for planting; no benefit will come from this idea, no matter how hard you try.

At the end of March, I began to water the bed with warm water, and when the threat of night frosts passed, I removed the covers and numerous shoots were already showing off under them. To be honest, I didn’t expect there to be so many seedlings, I gave some of them away to my neighbors, and they were happy!

In the spring these shoots appeared

But I didn’t stop being surprised. Those bushes that were grown through direct sowing into the ground began to bear fruit at the same time as the domestic ones, but the immunity was enormously different. The summer turned out to be dank, the rains poured down like a river, no matter who you ask, everyone unanimously said: “There are no tomatoes this year,” and my overwintered bushes bore fruit without problems, did not get sick and did not add any trouble to me. I harvested a lot from them and it lay, believe it or not, until the end of November!

As my practice has shown, tomatoes grown through sowing before winter are not over-watered, and therefore they are not afraid of anything, because the immunity is developed very strong. Regarding the fruits, the keeping quality is also excellent, the taste qualities are not lost.

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