Picking tomatoes in April

In winter, the gardener has no time to rest. He begins a period of preparation for the new season. You need to buy seeds and start growing tomato seedlings. The most important month is January. Later, the seedlings need to be dived in order to achieve high yields. There are summer residents who, in order to simplify the task of growing seedlings, sow seeds in a separate container, where it grows before planting in open ground. But for most farmers, diving tomatoes means getting a large number of fruits.

About culture

Tomato is a vegetable that no one can do without. It is used in food in various forms. In nature, there are about a thousand varieties of this vegetable. They are grown in production fields, in greenhouses and in a home garden. Growing tomatoes is fun but time consuming. Therefore, you need to know well all the secrets used by experienced gardeners, which we will share in this article.

Tomatoes were grown by Europeans already in the sixteenth century, but they were perceived as an ornamental plant - people were afraid to eat their fruits, considering them poisonous. But at the end of the eighteenth century, the tomato began to be eaten.

Tomatoes

This plant is an annual, belongs to the Solanaceae family. The root system of the culture is developing well. When collecting seed, it should be remembered that seeds tend to sprout even after nine years of storage. The most important step in growing tomatoes is picking, because thanks to the stress that the plant receives during transplanting, its root system becomes stronger. Let's consider in more detail when to dive tomato seedlings in April and why it is needed.

"For" and "against" picking

Before deciding when to dive tomatoes in April, you should consider the positive aspects of the process:

1. First of all, you need to remember that by diving a plant, the gardener gives it not only new soil, but also a new portion of the minerals necessary for its growth;
2. When transplanted, the root system gets more space for development. Thanks to this, the stem of the plant itself develops;
3. The seedlings become large and do not break;
4. The plant becomes strong and immune to disease.

When picking tomatoes, the most important aspect is when the plant should be replanted.

Picking tomatoes

Seedling picking

First of all, you need to figure out what actually is a tomato pick. Sowing seeds is done in January, after which you need to properly care for the seedlings. In order for it to grow strong and healthy, you need to transplant it into separate containers, since the seeds do not germinate at the same time, respectively, some stems develop faster, while others - slower. In the process of growth, strong shoots outgrow weak ones and oppress them. When transplanting, a strong seedling is selected, and a weak one is given the opportunity to gain strength and grow further.

Most gardeners are arguing among themselves about whether a pick is really needed, because you can simply weed the seedlings by removing weak specimens. But a large number are still prone to this process, because they believe that if you adhere to all the rules of picking, then the seedlings will grow strong and the tomatoes will give a high yield.

Their opponents tend to grow seedlings in a separate container, where no more than three seeds are sown, of which the strongest plant is subsequently left. Thus, the tomato grows in an individual pot and develops until it is planted in the open ground or greenhouse.

What to use for picking tomatoes

Before diving, as well as before landing in open ground, you need to carry out preparatory work, which are as follows.

The day before the pick, the seedlings are watered abundantly. This must be done in order for the water to soak deep into the soil and make it lighter. Thus, removing the plant from the container where it grew, the roots will receive a minimum of stress and damage. When removed from dry soil, the roots will be bare, which will lead to unpleasant consequences.

The soil that is used for transplanting seedlings should only be taken checked. A small amount of fertilizer needs to be added to it:

• Superphosphate;
• Biohumus;
• Potassium sulfate.

It is recommended to water the soil with a weak solution of potassium permanganate before picking. In this case, fertilizers can be applied directly to the seedling holes.

You also need to take care of the dishes into which the plants will be transferred. To do this, use cups or pots, depending on the size of the tomato stem. It can be:

• cardboard glasses;
• plastic boxes;
• peat tablets;
• dense polyethylene products.

Growing seedlings at home is a rather troublesome business, but, nevertheless, in this case, tomatoes will reward their owners with a generous harvest for the work. To choose a place where seedlings will grow and develop, you can use:

• window;
• loggia;
• greenhouse.

The main thing is that the plant receives as much sunlight as possible.

Seedling picking

When the pick is carried out

In most cases, tomato seedlings are transplanted when the seedlings have the first two leaves. But it should be borne in mind that it is undesirable to dive all the plants from the common container, since during this period the root system of the seedlings is not yet fully formed and during transplantation it can be damaged.

Also, do not delay the dive, since the plants, developing their root system, intertwine with each other, which can subsequently lead to root injuries. The most optimal time for transplanting is the tenth or fourteenth day after germination.

Many picks are made much later - when the seedlings will be more than a month, or even one and a half. In this case, you need to immediately decide when and how the transplant will take place. Seeds should be sown in deeper containers, and the distance between them should be greater.

In addition, there is an opinion that when transplanting, you need to use the lunar calendar. There have already been determined favorable days for picking tomatoes.

Pick on the lunar calendar

Most gardeners very often refer to the sowing calendar. Should I do it? Even in school years, teachers said that the moon has a significant impact on vital processes on planet Earth. It also affects plant growth. For this reason, scientists have created a lunar calendar. Thanks to him, gardeners can know not only the planting time, but also what time to do what. Including the time of the pick is indicated, at which this process will be more successful.

In March, you can plant plants from the nineteenth to the twenty-fourth, as well as the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth of March. It is best to plant plants during this period. Of course, many will be skeptical about such a recommendation, since this month the seedlings are still too weak and fragile.But, nevertheless, diving at this time will benefit the tomatoes and help them bear fruit perfectly.

You can wait until April or even May. In May, a transplant is best done from the sixteenth to the eighteenth, as well as the twenty-fifth. Although already in the twentieth of this month, most summer residents are planting tomatoes in open ground.

Diving tomatoes in April

Using the lunar calendar allows the seedlings to transfer the transplant more painlessly. Picking tomato seedlings in April is the most optimal. Favorable days for transplanting tomatoes are as follows:

• from the fifth to the seventh;
• from the ninth to the eleventh April;
• from the nineteenth to the twentieth April;
• from twenty-third to twenty-fifth.

It is on these days that the moon enters certain phases, due to which the dive of the plant must be done exactly at the indicated numbers. Each phase of the moon affects the growth of the plant in its own way: on some days the stem of the tomatoes develops, on others - the root system. At the indicated dates, during excavation, the plant will calmly endure stress.

Diving tomatoes in April

Many will ask: is it possible to dive tomatoes on the waning moon? Of course you can. If picking a tomato in April for some reason could not be done on time, then it can be done on any other day, but at the same time beware of the new moon and full moon. It is in these phases that the Moon does not help the plant to develop, but rather, on the contrary, dulls growth.

Depending on the regions of the country, some adjustments are made in the timing of the pick, that is, in cities such as, for example, Perm, the transplant process is carried out starting from April 9. At this time, in regions with a temperate climate, the pick begins from the twelfth. The southern regions are diving tomatoes starting from the fourth of April. The reason for such discrepancies in timing depends on how soon the air warms up in a particular region.

When it is not recommended to dive tomato seedlings

According to the tips of the lunar calendar, there are favorable and unfavorable days for transplanting seedlings into individual containers. In most cases, all actions in relation to a tomato are performed in March, but many practicing gardeners successfully transplant plants in April.

Making these manipulations, you need to be careful not to get into the period of "troubling days". It comes during the new moon and full moon. Based on the observations of specialists, on such days the plant stops actively developing and growing. If you make a pick on such days, the seedlings will not take root well, which will affect the future harvest. Tomatoes will not only have few fruits, they will also lose their taste.

According to the forecasts of the lunar calendar, it is necessary to abandon the work on growing seedlings on such days:

1. In January - 1, 27, 28;
2. In February - from 23 to 26;
3. In March - 2.17.31;
4. In April - 19, 20, 26;
5. In May - from 16 to 18 and 25;
6. In June - 13, 14, 24.

Knowing all these nuances, the gardener can calculate the days when to sow tomato seeds, so that in the future, plants in the phase of two or three leaves can be planted in time.

If picking tomatoes in April is done according to all the rules and requirements, then the plant will grow healthy and strong. Thanks to this, the gardener in the summer will get a good harvest of ripe juicy tomato fruits.