Latest Tomato Planting Soil, Fertilizer and Water Management Techniques and Methods Tutorial
Tomato cultivation is very common in China, and when growing tomatoes, yield and quality are surely issues that everyone pays close attention to. If you want to improve tomato yield and quality, then soil, fertilizer and water management is very important and directly related to them. So when we grow tomatoes, how should we manage soil, fertilizer and water? Today the editor brings you the soil, fertilizer and water management techniques for tomato cultivation. Let's take a look together below!
1. Soil management
When growing tomatoes, doing a good job of soil management is the foundation for ensuring scientific fertilization and watering. We should appropriately supplement organic matter to maintain soil quality. When changing crops in winter and spring, the interval is relatively short, so we should not carry out soil management practices such as closed shed treatment. Usually, after the previous crop is pulled up, work such as fertilization, plowing and transplanting should be carried out. Then ridge cultivation should be done. Ridge cultivation can effectively improve soil permeability and achieve the goal of cultivating strong roots. We can ensure that organic fertilizer is fully mixed with the soil by rotary tilling the soil. The depth of rotary tilling should be kept at about 20cm. After rotary tilling, form ridges, with width and height kept at about 60*20cm respectively.
2. Water management
After tomatoes are planted, grow them under plastic mulch, then water in an appropriate amount of water for seedling recovery. After about a week, water a second time for seedling recovery, and control the amount of water well. Before the tomatoes are topped, that is, during the seedling stage and the flowering and fruiting stage, water once every week. If conditions permit, a tensiometer can be installed to help judge the water content in the soil. Then after topping, as the temperature continues to rise, the tomato's demand for water will also continue to increase. At this time, water about once every five days. If there are consecutive cloudy days, the plant's evaporation will decrease, so at this time the watering time should be delayed and the amount of water reduced.
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Tomatoes have a relatively large growth amount and bear a large number of fruits, so their demand for fertilizer is also relatively large. However, their roots have relatively poor fertilizer tolerance, so the soil's nutrient conditions must be high. Before rotary tilling the soil, an appropriate amount of calcium phosphate can be applied to supplement the tomato plants with sufficient calcium and phosphorus elements. Then after planting, apply an appropriate amount of water-soluble fertilizer by drip irrigation. Before topping, fertilize about 4 times. After topping, the fertilizer should mainly be a high-potassium formula water-soluble fertilizer, applied about five times.
Then when entering the late growth stage of tomatoes, foliar fertilization can be used to supplement the tomato plants with an appropriate amount of medium and trace elements. During growth, tomatoes have a relatively large demand for calcium. If calcium is deficient, it can easily cause adverse phenomena such as blossom-end rot and fruit cracking, leading to a decrease in yield. Foliar fertilizers should mainly be fertilizers such as calcium nitrate water-soluble fertilizer. In addition, attention should also be paid to supplementing trace elements such as boron and zinc, which can promote fruit expansion and increase yield.
The above is a brief introduction to the soil, fertilizer and water management techniques for tomato cultivation. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and we hope it can help everyone!