Use this nutrient soil for potted tomatoes, and the fruits will easily fill the pot

Growing flowers and plants can beautify your home and delight your mood, while growing potted vegetables and potted fruit trees is even more full of fun! When it comes to potted vegetables, what you need to consider is not just watering and fertilizing, but also regularly pruning the plants and checking whether the pots can successfully bear fruit.

If growing flowers is a field of knowledge, then growing potted vegetables can also be considered a technical skill. Nowadays, many gardening enthusiasts have not only taken up growing flowers but have also joined the ranks of those growing potted vegetables. The more common potted vegetables include potted small chili peppers, potted tomatoes, potted chives, and so on. Today, I would like to share with you the care of potted tomatoes, hoping it will be helpful.

Take a look at the potted tomatoes grown by a gardening enthusiast - aren't they spectacular and beautiful!

The potted tomatoes above come from gardening enthusiast Dongguan Shan on Hua Ba - aren't you envious? Potted cherry tomatoes are relatively easy to grow. We just need to master the small details of caring for them. Next, let me first talk about the details of caring for potted tomatoes.

1. Potted tomatoes need this kind of homemade nutrient soil

Because they like to grow in loose, breathable soil rich in humus, which is what helps them flower and bear fruit. So the nutrient soil must be homemade. The specific process is not difficult either. First, prepare vermiculite, fine sand, mushroom residue, cinder, corn stalk powder, and other materials as raw ingredients, then go out to the wild to dig some leaf mold and find some pine needles and ordinary soil. Mix the above materials in a 1:1 ratio.

2. When the tomatoes grow into mature plants, be sure to remember to prune

There are many varieties of potted tomatoes, and some need dwarfing treatment, which simply means they need to be topped. In addition, some side shoots of potted tomatoes should be cut off in time, especially the small branches growing between two branches. These small branches not only will not bear fruit but also consume a lot of nutrients. The specific positions are shown in the picture below:

3. After potted tomatoes bear fruit, remember to apply light fertilizer frequently

Before the tomatoes bear fruit, it is best to frequently hoe the potting soil, which can increase breathability and benefit the growth and development of the root system. Of course, at this time you can also add some leaf mold or pine needles into the potting soil. After the fruit sets, apply 100 grams of expanded chicken manure and 5 granules of ternary compound fertilizer as a top dressing, and appropriately spray 0.5% potassium dihydrogen phosphate to provide the nutrients needed for fruit growth.

If you think the chicken manure smells too strong, you can replace it with decomposed soybean cake.

For growing potted tomatoes, basically the three details above are enough to grow them well. Of course, whether growing potted vegetables or flowers, you must care for them with dedication, because only with effort will there be harvest. Potted tomatoes are generally sown in the same year and will bear fruit in the same year. If you propagate seedlings by cuttings, with proper care in the same year, the fruits produced will be even more. In this way, with two or three pots on the balcony, your family won't even need to buy them, and they are absolutely natural and green.

That's all for sharing knowledge about potted tomatoes. Thank you for reading!

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