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Recently, many gardeners have been trying to switch to natural and environmentally friendly types of plant nutrition. Among the crops that require additional nutrition, everyone’s favorite is tomatoes.
It is problematic to grow a wonderful crop of tomatoes without fertilizing. At the same time, I want feeding to take a minimum of effort and bring guaranteed results. Therefore, feeding tomatoes with yeast helps gardeners:
- The composition is not at all difficult to prepare;
- components are always available.
Why yeast
Everyone is familiar with the product, but what benefits can it bring to tomatoes? It turns out it's big:
- Yeast improves the composition of the soil on the site. When fertilizing, microorganisms enter the soil. They serve as food for worms, the soil is enriched with humus and oxygen.
- Seedlings if it feed with yeast, more easily tolerates stress during transplantation and diving.
- Due to the supply of useful components and improved soil fertility, the leaf mass and root system of the tomato grow well.
- The growth of new shoots on tomato bushes fed with yeast increases.
- The number of ovaries and, accordingly, fruits increases, the yield exceeds the usual norm.
- Tomatoes tolerate climatic fluctuations more easily and are more resistant to diseases. The most important advantage of fertilizing with yeast is considered to be the tomato’s “immunity” to late blight.
- Yeast supplements do not contain synthetic components; the fruits are hypoallergenic for children.
- The cost of the main component (yeast) is very affordable.
In order not to apply chemical fertilizers to tomatoes, gardeners use traditional formulations. Advantages fertilizing tomato yeast are obvious, so let’s look at the method of using them.
How to feed tomatoes with yeast compounds
Tomatoes require feeding regardless of where they are grown. Both in the open ground and in the greenhouse you cannot do without additional nutrition. Yeast feeding makes it possible to provide plants with essential microelements for growth and development. It is better to apply conventional fertilizers to the soil before planting tomatoes, so that they can dissolve and then be delivered to the root system in a convenient form. The yeast solution is already working after planting tomatoes.
The first introduction of tomatoes to yeast nutrition occurs already at the age of seedlings. There are two types of fertilizing tomatoes with yeast - foliar and root. Both methods are effective; they differ in the method of application and composition. In addition, tomatoes are grown in different ways.
Root application
Experienced gardeners advise carrying out the first root feeding with yeast when two leaves appear on the seedlings. But this is not a basic and optional procedure. Yeast will bring more benefits after the second pick. It is required for tall varieties, and optionally for short varieties.Make a mixture of 5 teaspoons of sugar, a glass of wood ash (be sure to sift!) and a bag of dry baker's yeast. After mixing the components, allow the mixture to brew. Readiness is determined by the degree of fermentation (it should end), then the composition is diluted with warm water in a ratio of 1:10. This recipe is suitable for feeding tomato seedlings. But for adult plants you can prepare a different mixture. First, make a dough for feeding - 100 g of fresh yeast is diluted with warm water in combination with three tablespoons of sugar and diluted with three liters of water. Place the mixture for fermentation. When the process is over, you can use the infusion. Add one glass of dough to a bucket of water (10 l) and pour over the tomatoes.
Nettle and hops are excellent additions to this mixture.
Nettle infusion is generally used to water plants, and hops enhance fermentation processes.
Fertilizing tomatoes with yeast in open ground often involves adding wood ash and chicken droppings. To prepare the composition you will need:
- 10 grams of dry yeast;
- 0.5 liters of chicken manure infusion;
- 0.5 l wood ash;
- 10 liters of clean water;
- 5 tbsp. spoons of sugar.
Leave for a week and water the tomatoes. The dosage that must be strictly adhered to is as follows: adult tomatoes are watered with two liters of infusion, seedlings rooted in a new place with 0.5 liters. Some gardeners successfully replace bird droppings mullein infusion.
Foliar nutrition
A very useful type of fertilizer for tomatoes. Helps gardeners in especially important periods of plant life. After transplanting seedlings to a permanent place of residence (in a greenhouse or under the open sky), root feeding is undesirable.The roots have not yet gained their power and strength, so they are sprayed.
Why is this beneficial?
- Foliar feeding of tomatoes with yeast can be done at the earliest stages of seedling life.
- Capillaries of stems and leaves deliver nutrients in full. This process occurs much faster than when root feeding a tomato with yeast.
- Tomatoes receive useful components much faster than with root nutrition.
- Saving ingredients for fertilizing.
Conditions for fertilizing
Any activities when growing garden crops require knowledge and strict adherence to certain rules. What do you need to know when feeding tomatoes with yeast?
- Timing parameters. Root feeding is carried out only when the soil is warm. There is no need to rush for the first time; it is better to wait until the end of May or the beginning of June. At this time, the soil is warm enough and the nutrients will be completely absorbed. The second aspect is the timing. It is optimal to feed tomatoes in the morning or evening without active sun. In greenhouses - in the morning, so that the plants dry before evening.
- Soil condition. You don’t need to fertilize dry soil, but you shouldn’t overwater the plants either. Therefore, before watering with the yeast mixture, the soil is slightly moistened.
- Dosage. Yeast feeding should not be considered a completely harmless action. An overdose will lead to a deterioration in the condition of the plants and a decrease in yield.
- Periodicity. Yeast feeding of tomatoes is carried out no more than 3-4 times throughout the entire season. They saturate the soil with nitrogen, but promote the excretion of potassium and calcium. Therefore, it is necessary to add wood ash to the infusion.The second option is to scatter it between the rows.
- Caution. This is important when chicken droppings are added to the fertilizer. Do not pour the infusion directly under the root of tomatoes. It is better to introduce yeast nutrition into the peri-stem grooves.
By properly feeding your tomatoes with yeast, you will undoubtedly see benefits. If you still have doubts, make an experimental bed.
Then it will be possible to compare the development of tomatoes with and without yeast nutrition.
In any case, you will be able to:
- save on medications;
- get tastier and larger fruits;
- improve the soil composition.
Most importantly, you will feed the tomatoes with an environmentally friendly, harmless composition. Feeding tomatoes with yeast is a proven and safe remedy. The fruits will be tasty, the plants will be healthy, and the household will be happy.
