Step-by-step instructions for growing tomatoes on the balcony

Not everyone has gardens, but many want their own vegetables during the summer season. Not all of them know that gardeners have long been practicing growing tomatoes on the balcony. This method will allow you to plant a garden culture at home. It is worth painting it step by step.

There are a number of differences between balcony plants at home and plants planted outdoors, so it is important to choose the right varieties of future tomatoes before planting.

What should be balcony tomatoes?

The main difference between plants grown on a window and greenhouse plants is their final size. Varieties that are used for planting in the garden can grow to a height of one meter or more. Take care of such a plant at home when growing on a windowsill very problematic, since tall bushes have a highly developed root system, which requires a lot of soil.

Low-growing varieties are perfect for planting on the windowsill of the house. In addition, they should bear fruit abundantly, because tomatoes on the window, due to the smaller amount of nutrients, have very small fruits. Therefore, the harvest of even 10 such tomatoes on the windowsill of the house will seem very modest.

Going to a store that sells seeds, you should take a closer look at varieties such as:

• Pinocchio;
• Balcony miracle;
• F1 balcony red;
• Pearl (yellow and red);
• Balconies elow;
• Thumbelina;
• F1 bonsai micro;
• Cherry;
• Button;
• Bonsai.

The bushes of these varieties are undersized and at home on the windowsill grow up to a maximum of half a meter. The fruits are arranged in large clusters on them, due to which, during ripening, the bush is dotted with many small berries. Due to the difference in conditions and varieties, plants planted at home, unlike greenhouse ones, require completely different care.

Soil for planting

Grow cherry tomatoes, Thumbelina, Miracle and other small-sized varieties on the windowsill of the house should be in prepared soil. There are several variations of the mixture. So, in specialized stores you can buy ready-made mixtures:

• "Tomato and Pepper";
• "Exo".

You can prepare a mixture for Miracle tomatoes and other varieties at home. There are some simple recipes.

1. Add a tablespoon to 1 part of vermiculite azofoski and a glass of ash, then add 4 parts of compost. Stir the resulting mixture in the soil, the amount of which should correspond to the compost.
2. In a 1: 1: 1 ratio, sod land, manure humus and peat are mixed.
3. Sand and peat are mixed in one-to-one proportions, 2 parts of leafy earth are added to the resulting mass.

In the resulting soil, indoor cherry tomatoes, Balconnoe miracle and others grown at home will be able to receive the necessary nutrients and will better get used to the windowsill.

Landing

In order to grow tomatoes Balcony miracle and other varieties at home on the window, you need to prepare a special container. Each bush is planted separately.

Advice

Choose a container volume for planting at least 3 liters. The container material can be absolutely any. So, instead of a clay pot, many people plant tomatoes in plastic bottles.

The technology of planting cherry and other species itself is very simple; it can be broken down into several stages step by step.

1. A drainage layer is poured into the bottom of the pot. They can be brick chips or gravel. This layer should be approximately 3 cm thick.
2. On top of the drainage, tamping a little, lay specially prepared soil so that about 2 cm remains to the upper edge of the container.
3. The largest seeds must be selected from the seedlings, after which they must be soaked for 25-30 minutes in a solution of potassium permanganate, consisting of 10 g of the substance and 1 liter of water.
4. Rinse the seeds thoroughly with clean water.
5. Finished seeds can be planted in soil. The depth of the groove in the pot soil can vary from 1.5 to 1 mm.

The final stage of planting cherry seeds and other tomatoes on the window - whether in plastic bottles or in clay containers - is abundant watering. Next, the pots are covered with glass and placed by the window on the south side of the apartment.

Care

Thumbelina, Balcony Miracle and other indoor tomatoes grown at home on the windowsill require special care, different from that to which plants planted in open ground are accustomed. This is due to the fact that there is a limited amount of nutrients in a closed pot.

Watering should occur as the soil dries out. Usually indoor cherry trees can live up to 8-10 days without additional watering. Before giving water to plants living on the windowsill, it should be defended for several days. But this is not the whole care.

Periodically, the sprouts will require feeding, which begins 12 days after the balcony miracle shows its first shoots.

In order to grow tomatoes on the balcony, it is necessary to constantly maintain the optimum temperature in the room. So, during the day, thermometer readings can fluctuate from 18 to 22 degrees, at night the average value can vary from 15 to 16 degrees.

Extreme heat cherry, Balcony miracle and other low-growing tomatoes growing at home on the windowsill are extremely disliked. Therefore, you should from time to time open the window to ventilate the room. Also, the care includes protection from unnecessary drafts. Therefore, in case of cold, it is necessary to install between the window and the cherry tree some kind of dense panel, for example, made of plywood.

Outcome

Growing tomatoes at home is not as difficult a process as it might seem at first glance. In addition, why should the balcony room of the house be empty when it can be usefully used for planting tomatoes?

The guarantee of success in growing is the purchase of tomato seeds suitable for planting at home, and adherence to the growing technology. Caring for tomatoes is also easy, the main thing is to make sure that the soil does not dry out. Then juicy and tasty tomatoes will grow at home.