Top dressing with yeast of tomatoes and cucumbers

Any garden crops react positively to top dressing. Today there are many mineral fertilizers for tomatoes and cucumbers. Therefore, vegetable growers often face the dilemma of which fertilizers to choose for their crops. Today we will talk about feeding plants with yeast. This method cannot be considered new, it was used by our great-grandmothers, when they did not yet know about mineral fertilizers.

Let’s take a closer look at the benefits of yeast nutrition for cucumbers and tomatoes. Experienced gardeners do not need our advice, in their opinion, yeast helps to grow a rich harvest of juicy and tasty vegetables. Beginners need to carefully consider the recommendations.

Yeast in the garden

Yeast is a product used in cooking. But they can be successfully used to feed cucumbers and tomatoes.

Why are they useful:

1. Firstly, they contain proteins, trace elements, amino acids, organic iron. All of them are necessary, like air for cucumbers and tomatoes.
2. Secondly, it is a safe, environmentally friendly product. Therefore, you can safely give vegetables grown on your site even to small children.
3. Thirdly, fertilizing with yeast helps to improve soil microflora, yeast bacteria suppress harmful microorganisms.
4. Fourth, you can use organic fertilizer at different stages of vegetable development. Plants adapt faster, feel good both in open and closed ground.

How does yeast work on plants?

1. Cucumbers and tomatoes quickly increase their green mass, a powerful root system. And this, in turn, has a positive effect on the yield of cucumbers and tomatoes.
2. Plants become more stress-resistant even under adverse growing conditions (this applies primarily to open ground).
3. Immunity increases, when planted in the ground, cucumbers and tomatoes take root better.
4. Diseases and pests bother plants that are fed with yeast less.

Solutions are prepared from dry, granulated yeast or raw (they are also called live). Like any fertilizer, this product requires proper proportions.

Yeast contains beneficial bacteria, which, when they enter warm and moist soil, immediately begin rapid reproduction. Yeast as a fertilizer contains potassium and nitrogen, which enrich the soil. These trace elements are necessary for cucumbers and tomatoes for normal development.

How is yeast nutrition used?

Fertilizing garden crops with yeast was known in antiquity. Unfortunately, with the advent of mineral fertilizers, this method began to be forgotten. Gardeners with a long history of growing tomatoes and cucumbers believe that yeast top dressing is no worse, and in some cases even more effective than chemicals.

In fact, it is an excellent growth stimulant, a biologically active and harmless additive that activates the immune system of plants. As for harm, there is no such information. The only thing that gardeners should remember is that yeast acidifies the soil.

For the first time, yeast for feeding is used even at the stage of growing seedlings of cucumbers and tomatoes. Re-fertilize plants three weeks after planting seedlings and when the first flowers appear. Root and foliar feeding of tomatoes is carried out after 15 days, cucumbers after 10.

Recipes

Since yeast has been used to fertilize tomatoes and cucumbers for hundreds of years, there are many proven recipes. In some of them, only yeast is used, in others, wheat, nettle, hops, chicken manure, and sugar are added to prepare valuable top dressing. There are also recipes based on black bread.

Just yeast

1. First recipe. A defrosted pack of raw yeast (200 grams) should be poured with a liter of warm water. If the water is chlorinated, it is preliminarily defended. Neither cucumbers nor tomatoes need chlorine. It is better to use a container larger than one liter, since yeast bacteria will begin to multiply, the liquid will increase in volume. The sourdough is infused for at least 3 hours. After that, it is poured into a bucket and topped up to 10 liters with warm water! This solution is enough for 10 plants.

   

2. Second recipe. Take 2 bags of dry yeast 7 grams and a third of the sugar. Pour them into a ten-liter bucket of warm water. Sugar speeds up fermentation. Before watering, dilute in five parts of water. Under cucumbers or tomatoes, pour one liter of solution per plant.
3. Third recipe. Again, 10 grams of dry yeast are taken, two large spoons of granulated sugar. The ingredients are poured into 10 liters of warm water. Fermentation takes 3 hours. It is best to put the container in the sun. The mother liquor is diluted 1:5 with warm water.
4. Fourth recipe. To prepare the mother liquor, use 10 grams of yeast, a third of a glass of sugar. All this is poured into a ten-liter container with warm water. To enhance the action of yeast, add 2 more tablets of ascorbic acid and a handful of soil. This top dressing for tomatoes and cucumbers must be kept for 24 hours. From time to time the leaven is stirred. The proportion is identical to the second and third recipes.

Yeast nutrition with additives

1. This recipe will require a large capacity of 50 liters. Green grass is mowed in advance: during fermentation, it releases nitrogen into the solution. Quinoa is not used for feeding tomatoes, because late blight spores like to settle on it.The crushed grass is placed in a container, 500 grams of fresh yeast and a loaf of bread are also added here. After that, the mass is poured with warm water and left to ferment for 48 hours. The readiness of top dressing can be recognized by the specific smell of fermented grass. The stock solution is diluted 1:10. Under a cucumber or tomato, you need to pour a liter jar of yeast fertilizer.

   

2. To prepare the next dressing for vegetables, you will need one liter of homemade milk (it will not work from packs!), 2 bags of granulated yeast, 7 grams each. The mass should ferment for about 3 hours. For 10 liters of warm water, add one liter of mother liquor.
3. Feeding with chicken manure works well. You will need: granulated sugar (a third of a glass), wet yeast (250 grams), wood ash and bird droppings, 2 cups each. Fermentation takes a couple of hours. To prepare the working solution, the mass is poured into a ten-liter bucket with warm water.
4. This recipe contains hops. Dial one glass of fresh cones and pour into boiling water. Hops are boiled for about 50 minutes. When the broth cools to room temperature, flour (4 large spoons), granulated sugar (2 spoons) is added to it. The container is set aside for 24 hours in heat. After the time has elapsed, two grated potatoes are added and set aside for another 24 hours. Before preparing the working solution, the starter must be filtered. For watering cucumbers and tomatoes, add another 9 liters of water.
5. Instead of hops, gardeners use wheat grains. They are first germinated, then ground, flour and granulated sugar, dry or raw yeast are added (see the description of the recipe with hop cones). The resulting mass is boiled in a water bath for a third of an hour. A day later, the stock solution is ready. Top dressing for tomatoes is the same as in the recipe above.

Another option for fertilizing based on yeast:

To summarize

It is unrealistic to talk about all the recipes for yeast dressings in one article. I would like to believe that a safe way to grow tomatoes and cucumbers will interest beginner gardeners. After all, this organic fertilizer nourishes not only the plants themselves, but also improves the structure of the soil.

You can carry out foliar feeding of plants with yeast. This use of organic fertilizer relieves tomatoes from phytophthora, and cucumbers from spotting. The only drawback of foliar dressings is that the liquid does not adhere well to the foliage. But in general, as experienced gardeners note, yeast top dressing allows you to get a crop of environmentally friendly vegetables.