Do you also make trivial mistakes when watering? Your tomato harvest will be poor

Beautiful, sweet tomatoes are both a dream and a reality for many gardeners. Growing them isn’t difficult at all. You just need to know the basic principles of growing tomatoes. Proper watering is undoubtedly one of them. Seemingly trivial mistakes can rob us of a large part of our harvest. In the following paragraphs, we’ll take a much closer look at mistakes made when watering tomatoes. Perhaps our tips will help you avoid these mistakes in the future.

Watering tomatoes in the evening

It’s best to water tomatoes in the morning. The water evaporates much more easily, and no excess moisture remains around the plants. This prevents the dreaded mold—the biggest nightmare when growing tomatoes—from forming. In extreme heat, water will evaporate even in the evening or overnight. However, it’s definitely better to water tomatoes early in the morning.

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Watering tomatoes every day is nonsense

Exactly. If we water tomatoes every day, we’ll end up with plants that can only absorb water through shallow roots. As a result, the root system won’t be strengthened, and water won’t reach the deep roots at all. The ideal is to water once every two to three days, but deeply and thoroughly for each plant. The plant will then take up water as needed.

Watering the leaves is utter nonsense

Watering tomatoes on the leaves is completely unnecessary. We’re just setting the stage for mold to develop. Sure, we can’t protect tomatoes from the rain, but adding even more water to their leaves is, at the very least, unnecessary. A spray nozzle on a watering can simply has no place when watering tomatoes.

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Beware of water that’s too cold

This can also be the death of your tomatoes. It gives them quite a shock. The ideal approach is to let well water sit so it warms up to ambient temperature. Then you can water without any problems. It doesn’t matter how long you let the water sit. You can even pour it from a large container and let it sit for a while.

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