Feeding Tomatoes And Cucumbers With Yeast: Effective Recipes And Reviews

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Grows by leaps and bounds: a natural fertilizer for cucumbers and tomatoes

Experienced gardeners know that "it grows by leaps and bounds" is by no means a figurative expression. This natural top dressing is useful for any horticultural crops, cucumbers and tomatoes are no exception. Yeast has long proved its effectiveness - they were used even when there were simply no mineral and complex fertilizers. As with any other dressings, it is important to observe the frequency of their introduction and the recipe - only then the funds will give the desired effect.

Content

• 1 The benefits of yeast for cucumbers and tomatoes

  1.1 Video: the advantages and disadvantages of yeast dressings for horticultural crops

• 2 Recipes, Schemes and Application Rates

  2.1 Video: how to prepare yeast feeding and use it

• 3 Reviews about feeding tomatoes and cucumbers with yeast

The benefits of yeast for cucumbers and tomatoes

The composition of yeast is not much inferior to store-bought complex mineral fertilizers. They contain phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, nitrogen, zinc and iron. The only drawback is that with regular application, the soil gradually acidifies. The introduction of dolomite flour, slaked lime, for adherents of natural farming - wood ash or ground eggshell (50-200 g / m²) will help to level the undesirable effect.

Advantages of yeast feeding:

• environmental friendliness (can be used at any stage of plant development, including during fruiting - nothing harmful is deposited in cucumbers and tomatoes) and versatility (top dressing is suitable for vegetables grown both in open ground and in greenhouses);
• activation of the growth of the root system, development of the aboveground part of plants;
• increasing "stress resistance" and general resistance (both to the whims of the weather and diseases, pest attacks);
• an increase in yield (more powerful roots can "feed" a larger number of ovaries) and fruit quality;
• improvement of soil microflora (due to the presence of protein and other organic compounds and suppression of pathogenic microorganisms by yeast fungi).

Yeast dressings for cucumbers and tomatoes provide the gardener with stronger and more resistant plants to any "adversity"; in the future, their harmonious development will affect the volume and quality of the crop

Therefore, yeast dressings are useful at any stage of development of cucumbers and tomatoes, but they will be especially effective when:

• slow development of plants, clearly lagging behind the norm;
• the first signs of infection or at the initial stage of pest attacks;
• the need to increase the productivity of plantings and / or extend the fruiting period.

Many gardeners accumulate shells from raw eggs all winter long, if you have not done this, you can simply buy it

Video: the advantages and disadvantages of yeast dressings for horticultural crops

Recipes, Schemes and Application Rates

For healthy and normally developing bushes of cucumbers and tomatoes, 3-4 yeast dressings per season are enough:

• at the stage of growing seedlings in the phase of the second true leaf (it can be skipped);
• 10-12 days after planting seedlings in the garden;
• during flowering or immediately after;
• after the first wave of the harvest.

If the plants are weak, fertilizers with yeast are applied every 10-12 days for cucumbers and once every 12-15 days for tomatoes until their condition improves. With such frequent fertilizing, it is imperative to simultaneously dust the soil in the garden with wood ash. If you overdo it with yeast, the excessive development of the green mass begins to the detriment of fruiting.

For a person, ready-made yeast feeding does not look very appetizing, but garden crops, in particular, cucumbers and tomatoes, do not think so

General recommendations for the preparation and introduction of yeast dressings:

• Yeast begins to "work" only in warmth. Therefore, they are applied exclusively to the soil warmed up to 18–20 ° C, diluted with heated water (at least 25 ° C).
• To prepare top dressing, use a container with a larger volume than all the ingredients make up. During fermentation, the solution "swells".
• You can use both dry and compressed yeast, but always with an unexpired expiration date. The second option is considered more effective, but requires special storage conditions. To activate the fermentation process, sugar is necessarily added to powdered yeast.
• Water the planting abundantly just before fertilizing.
• To avoid an "overdose", do not use other natural organics together with yeast.
• Prepare a fresh solution each time, it cannot be stored.
• The yeast fermentation process goes faster in the sun. But it is better to close the container with a lid so that insects do not get inside.
• The norm of the solution for an adult plant is about a liter, for a newly transplanted seedling - 300-500 ml, for seedlings - no more than 100 ml (for seedlings, fertilizing is used in half the concentration).

Basic fertilizer recipes:

• Finely chop a pack (200 g) of pressed yeast, pour in a liter of water (not tap, drinking). Insist for at least 3 hours, stirring occasionally. Just before watering the cucumbers and tomatoes, pour the liquid into a 10 liter bucket and add water to the brim. Stir well again.

  

  Compressed yeast must be stored in the refrigerator, providing them with a sufficiently high humidity.

• Pour two bags (7 g each) of dry yeast and three tablespoons of sugar into a 10-liter bucket, pour water to the brim. Leave for 3 hours, stir before use.

  

  Powdered yeast has an almost unlimited shelf life, but the practice of gardeners shows that they are less effective for feeding cucumbers and tomatoes.

Video: how to prepare yeast feeding and use it

You can add other ingredients to yeast dressings:

• Fill the barrel or bucket about a third with any weeds other than quinoa. Nettle and dandelion leaves are most commonly used. Tomato and potato tops will also scare away many pests. Add 0.5 kg of chopped fresh yeast, if desired - a crumbled loaf of black bread, add water to the brim. Insist 2-3 days. Strain the finished fertilizer, dilute with water 1:10. The resulting solution is rich in nitrogen.

  

  Infusion of nettle or other weeds is widely used by gardeners to feed almost all crops at an early stage of development; if yeast is added to it, the fermentation process will go faster, the product will become more useful due to the enrichment with amino acids

• Pour 2 bags of yeast with a liter of homemade unboiled milk, ferment for 3 hours. Add 10 liters of water before use. Such feeding has a positive effect on plant immunity.

  

  Fresh unpasteurized milk is needed to prepare yeast feed

• Mix two glasses of fresh chicken manure (or a liter of cow dung) with a half-liter can of wood ash, add 250 g of pressed yeast and three tablespoons of sugar. Pour everything into 10 liters of water, let it brew for 2 hours. The finished compound is a complex fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

  

  Wood ash is a natural source of potassium, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium

• Sprout a glass of wheat grains, grind in a meat grinder or blender. Add 4 tablespoons flour, half the sugar, a pack of fresh yeast or two bags of dry yeast. Leave in a warm room for a day. Pour in a liter of water, heat in a water bath for 15–20 minutes. Strain before watering cucumbers and tomatoes, add water (9 l). Wheat is a source of valuable amino acids.

  

  Sprouted wheat kernels can be added to dry and compressed yeast feed

• Add two ascorbic acid tablets and a handful of soil to three tablespoons of sugar and 10 g of dry yeast. Pour 10 liters of water, leave for 24 hours, stirring occasionally. Ascorbic acid activates plant metabolism, helps to recover faster after "stress", whatever may cause it.

  

  Only "classic" ascorbic acid is suitable for preparing top dressing - not effervescent, without any additives

Reviews of feeding tomatoes and cucumbers with yeast

Yeast as a top dressing for horticultural crops has long been appreciated by adherents of natural farming. They can also be a useful addition to mineral fertilizers. Such dressing has a complex positive effect, improves the quality of the soil, but only if it is applied in a timely manner and in the right dosage.