Feeding tomatoes with yeast: is it possible and how to do it, watering rules

Yeast is a product familiar to humans. They are part of bakery products, kvass, and many other products. Yeast is a fungus that is rich in protein elements, amino acids. Gardeners, in order to speed up the harvest, practice fertilizing tomatoes with yeast. The latter may include various additional components.

Biological properties and composition of yeast

Yeast is a single-celled fungus. They include protein and carbohydrate components, mineral elements, B vitamins. The gardener can use their biological properties to achieve:

• qualitative improvement of soil composition;
• appearance of well flowering shoots, a significant increase in the number of ovaries;
• significant increase in the resistance of seedlings to adverse climatic conditions;
• significant improvement in plant immunity;
• getting a harvest that is sustainable.

Impact on seedlings and mature tomato bushes

Can yeast be used to feed seedlings and adult bushes? The product can be applied both to newly emerging tomato shoots and already formed bushes.

Intensifying tomato growth

The product allows gardeners to grow tomato bushes much faster than without the use of top dressing. A similar effect is due to the special properties of fungi, which change the composition of the soil, increasing the amount of nitrogen compounds. If you feed the seedlings with yeast correctly and in a timely manner, you can notice an acceleration of growth in a couple of days.

Fortifying top dressing

Using a yeast feed will allow the gardener to get more fruit than usual, while saving money on buying expensive synthetic fertilizers. Also, the vegetation period of plants is significantly reduced. Yeast fertilizer also affects the taste characteristics of tomatoes. A gardener using yeast will get fruits that have excellent taste and aroma.

To strengthen the immune system of plants

Due to the fact that the product is a supplier of natural microorganisms, it helps to strengthen the immune system of tomatoes. It is especially good at protecting tomatoes from late blight, a disease also known as brown rot.

Feeding to attract pollinators

Because yeast improves the fragrance of plants, fertilized bushes become the object of attention of insect pollinators (bumblebees, bees).

This useful property of yeast top dressing is relevant for gardeners who grow tomatoes outdoors, and not in a greenhouse.

Advantages and disadvantages of yeast supplements

There are summer residents who believe that yeast is not top dressing in the conventional sense of the word, but a plant growth accelerator. Be that as it may, yeast has the following advantages:

• enrichment of the earth with protein and amino acid elements, organic iron, other micro- and macrocomponents;
• acceleration of plant growth;
• improve root growth;
• a noticeable improvement in the immunity of tomatoes, reducing the likelihood of fungus damage;
• low cost, easy preparation and application.

The disadvantages include the fact that yeast top dressing cannot be applied more than three times per season. In addition, fertilizer only works in heat. In cold conditions, fermentation will stop, the effect of top dressing is not manifested in any way.

In what form is it better to deposit

It doesn't matter which yeast is used for fertilizing - raw or dry. Both will be equally effective. Top dressing can even be made from old bread with crackers.

Raw

Dry yeast fertilizer recipe:

1. 100 grams put in a ten-liter container filled with heated water.
2. Pour 2 tablespoons of sugar into a bowl to start fermentation.
3. Please wait 2 hours.
4. Dilute the resulting mixture in 50 liters of water.

Dry

Recipe for making fertilizer from a raw product:

1. 200 grams of raw yeast mixed with one liter of milk.
2. Wait a couple of hours for the sourdough to build up.
3. Dilute the finished mixture with water (the volume of water should be ten times the volume of the mixture).

How to deposit correctly

There are 2 types of yeast dressings for tomatoes - root and foliar. Both types of dressings are effective, the differences are only in the method of application and composition.

Under the root

It is recommended to fertilize tomatoes by the root method as soon as 2 leaves appear on the seedlings. The essence of the method is a simple watering of plants. The formed bushes are watered with 2 liters of top dressing. For seedlings that have taken root in a new place, you need four times less fertilizer.

Foliar method

Foliar top dressing is very useful for tomatoes. After the seedlings are transplanted into a greenhouse or garden bed, it is not recommended to water them. The root system has not yet developed enough, because the tomatoes are sprayed.

Foliar feeding has the following advantages:

• possible to do in the initial stages of seedling life;
• capillaries of stems and leaves deliver useful elements in full. Delivery of nutrients is much faster than when applying top dressing at the root;
• saves cooked mix.

Attention! Foliar dressing should be less concentrated than root dressing. Otherwise, the gardener risks burning the leaves of the plants.

Yeast feed recipe

Feeding can be prepared according to a variety of recipes. Each of the recipes differs from the others in a special ingredient.

With hops

Collect 1 cup of hop cones, pour them into boiled hot water. Cones are boiled for about fifty minutes.After cooling the broth, pour 4 tablespoons of flour, 2 tablespoons of sugar into it. Leave the mixture overnight in a warm place. After that, supplement it with a couple of potatoes, chopped with a grater, leave for another day. Pour 9 liters of water into the mixture after straining.

With chicken manure

Mix one-third cup of granulated sugar, a quarter kilogram of raw yeast, wood ash and chicken manure (two cups each). Leave the mixture to ferment for 2 hours. To prepare a working dressing, pour the mixture into a container of heated water with a volume of ten liters.

From live yeast and nettle

You will need a capacious container of fifty liters. Gather green nettles. Wandering, the grass saturates the liquid with nitrogen elements. Grind the nettle, put in a container. Pour half a kilogram of yeast and a loaf of bread. Then pour heated water into the container (so that it completely fills the mixture), set to ferment for a couple of days.Check if the fertilizer is ready, perhaps by the unusual aroma of nettles that have fermented. Dilute the mixture with water (one to ten). One bush will need a liter of top dressing.

With milk

In order to make this top dressing, you will need 1 liter of milk (from under the cow), a couple of bags of granulated yeast (seven grams each). Fermentation lasts about three hours. Each liter of the finished mixture must be poured with ten liters of heated water.

Yeast with sugar

It will take ten grams of a yeast product, one third of a glass of granulated sugar. Pour the ingredients into a bucket of heated water (volume - 10 liters). You can pour a couple of ascorbic acid and a handful of earth there to enhance the effect of fungi. Fermentation lasts a couple of days. Don't forget to stir the mixture. Dilute with water in a ratio of one to five.

With ash

One hundred grams of yeast product mix with ten liters of heated water. Pour half a kilogram of wood ash into the mixture. Fertilizer can be used at a time when tomatoes are actively growing.

With bread additives

Take one hundred grams of yeast, ten liters of water. Mix it all in a container. Add half a kilogram of bread crumb to the mixture. You can use crackers that are softened with liquid. Also pour half a kilogram of chopped grass into the mixture (do not use the quinoa, late blight spores often settle on it), set to wander for a couple of days. At the end of fermentation, dilute the solution with warm water in a ratio of one to ten.

When should fertilizer be applied

When planning to use a yeast fertiliser, consider the following factors:

1. The season. Fertilizing plants under the root is allowed only when the earth is warm.The first time you do not need to rush, it is recommended to wait for the end of spring or the beginning of summer. During this period, the earth is warmed up, useful elements are completely absorbed. Another important factor is the time of use of top dressing. It is best to fertilize tomatoes at dawn or at sunset, when the sun is not shining too much. If the tomatoes grow in a greenhouse, top dressing should be done in the morning so that the tomatoes dry out before sunset.
2. Soil condition. If the open ground is dry, it should be slightly moistened before applying the fertilizer.
3. Dosage. Do not think that yeast fertilizers are generally harmless. An overdose can lead to the fact that the condition of the tomatoes will worsen, the yield will decrease.
4. Frequency of application. Tomatoes are fertilized with yeast a maximum of three times per season. The product fills the soil with nitrogen elements, but removes potassium and calcium. In view of this, it is advisable to add wood ash to the fertilizer or pour ash on the beds.

Reviews of gardeners on the use of yeast

Yeast product consists of about 60 percent protein elements, which allows it to be effectively used to feed tomatoes. The extensive experience of Russian gardeners shows that by properly fertilizing tomatoes with yeast, you can improve the general condition of tomatoes and get an excellent harvest.

According to summer residents, fertilizer is an excellent combination of low price and high efficiency. In addition, gardeners note that yeast dressing is very easy to make.

The shortcomings of yeast top dressing are practically not noticed by summer residents. The most effective way, according to gardeners, is to use yeast for top dressing of tomatoes growing outdoors, as in this case the fertilizer attracts the attention of pollinators.

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