Follow this trick for tomato plants and you will see that you will have a yield of up to 30% more. You wouldn’t expect it, but it’s super simple.
Around May/June we started planting tomatoes. There are numerous varieties to choose from. There are round tomatoes in clusters or datterini tomatoes. Or even Cuori di bue tomatoes, San Marzano tomatoes, Costoluti tomatoes, Piennolo tomatoes and many other types. We cannot apply the trick we are about to indicate to all of them.
In fact, this trick is meant for tomato plants that develop vertically near the canes you’ll be placing in the ground. There is a very specific reason and it refers to femminella. The latter is nothing more than that sprout that is usually removed by going to do a covering and trimming job to give birth to other tomatoes.
The trick we are going to show you is going to grow the crop 30% more and can be applied to plants with indeterminate growth. This means nothing more than that the plant will develop and bear fruit until the first cold arrives. Next, in the next paragraph, we see the details of this trick that you can do in your garden.
Tomatoes: Use this trick to increase the yield
This trick to make plants grow faster is not to put any fertilizer on the plants. The plant itself and its branches are exploited. Specifically, we’re going to touch on femminella, or the part of the plant that we’ve already mentioned above.
As we have said, this trick can only be exploited on tall tomato plants with indeterminate growth (remember). In practice, instead of going to remove the females and thus reduce yields, we ensure that they grow into a new stem with lots of leaves, flowers and fruits.
These axillary shoots then, if left uncut, develop into a new stem. As a result, the harvest will be larger, but since there is a new stem, the plant will require more nutrients. The plant, even if it will have more fruit, will not grow much, but it will still be smaller. In any case, it is not recommended to keep all the females on the plant.
Only some can remain, but the others will still have to be removed. A plant invaded by leaves will perform better because there will also be less air circulation. Also, the plant becomes unstable with too many females. So don’t overdo it in keeping these shoots, in short, we can say keep them right so as not to damage the plant.
Fertilizers for tomato plants.
In case you also want to use fertilizer for your tomato plants, we recommend some natural ones that you can prepare and use. Here they are:
- Manure: it is the best organic fertilizer that can be used in the cultivation of this plant. However, it must come from non-industrial farms.
- Ash: Wood ash contains many minerals that are useful to the plant.
- Liquid solution: In a bottle of warm water, pour a glass of unsweetened iced coffee. You can use this solution simply like this or enrich it with vegetable water for cooking.
These are a few examples, but the best fertilizers for tomatoes are those rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
