How and how many times a week do you need to water eggplants in open ground?

This vegetable culture, like eggplant, belongs to the family of nightshade. These plants are very fond of heat, eggplant frost absolutely can not tolerate.Growing these vegetables, a lot of attention should be paid to the care and prevention of diseases. One of the important stages of control is timely watering, which we will discuss in detail in this article.

When growing eggplant, you should first become familiar with the features of this culture.

• This vegetable is photophilous, planting eggplants is better in the lit area. Planting seedlings is not very good, and in the period of cloudy weather a good decision would be to think about creating additional lighting. If there is not enough light for the eggplant, the growth of the bushes and the time of fruit ripening will slow down, and in the end result will lead to a decrease in yield.
• In addition to good lighting, vegetables like moist soil, lack of moisture can also affect the slow growth and fall flowers, and this will negatively affect the formation of ovaries.

• Eggplant has a superficial view of the root system, and yet it needs air intake. It is necessary to make loosening, so that the soil could be enriched with oxygen. It is necessary to loosen the ground around the eggplant bush very carefully, without damaging the roots.
• The composition of the soil on the plot greatly affects the quality of the future harvest. Eggplant grows well on slightly acidic or neutral soils. Potassium content is considered the most important factor. Immediately after the appearance of the first shoots, you can feed them by adding phosphate fertilizers.
• The normal growth of eggplant and its fruiting is strongly influenced by temperature, so you need to constantly maintain 25-28 degrees.
• Long-term ripening does not allow the cultivation of eggplant culture in any other way, except for seedlings.

Like any plant, eggplants respond very well to watering with soft water - rain or thawed. Tap water can also be used, but at the same time it should be well drawn so that chlorine disappears.

It is a good idea to pour eggplant water on an egg shell. To do this, put 10 egg shells in the heated water and insist a couple of days. After the end of this period, plants can be watered calmly - such water will give them the calcium and potassium necessary for proper growth.

Tea solution will also be very useful. Tired of throwing out used bags? Why not apply them to the farm, and the garbage will be less, and the plants benefit. Pour boiling water over tea bags and let them stand for several days. Then strain and water the eggplants. Such an infusion will be a valuable gift for the culture, because it contains a lot of useful microelements.

Birch bark is another great way to water and feed plants at the same time. It is filled with clean water and insist for several days. It is noticed that after such feeding eggplants go well in growth.

Plant an eggplant, or rather, the seeds of this culture, necessary in the soil with a special composition, which includes:

• 5% sawdust or 5% sand;
• 5% of biohumus;
• 10% turf land;
• 20% of humus;
• and 60% peat moss.

Seeds need to be planted correctly, that is, in one row, the depth of planting should be 1.5 cm. Between two separate rows, a distance of 6 cm should be left. Immediately after planting, egg beds are covered with polyethylene, this will create a greenhouse effect. The temperature inside must always be maintained, the temperature should be about 25 degrees and not lower.

With the appearance of the very first shoots, the temperature is lowered, increasing with it the natural lighting - sunlight. After a few weeks, seedlings can be transplanted into separately prepared containers; by this time, germinated seeds will already be strong enough.

Water the seedlings need two days before moving. When the seedling has already been transferred, it is watered along the root, so that the root system is finished, and the plant begins in a new place.

The seedlings of this vegetable culture moisture-loving. That is why it is necessary often, and most importantly, in time to carry out its watering. With an insufficient amount of moisture, the stem of the plant will harden, and this will affect the decline of the fruitfulness of the bush. There should not be an excess in moisture either, since the excess water in the soil will negatively affect the whole bush, which may soon become ill.

There is also a special scheme for watering seedlings:

• until there are leaves on the bushes of eggplant, the seedlings are watered 1 or 2 times, the amount of water here should be calculated as follows: 7 liters per 1 square meter, then the irrigation number increases to 2-3 times, in this case 15 liters is spent per 1 square meter ;
• air humidity should remain 60%;
• the room where the seedlings sprout, you need to ventilate, just before this, be sure to cover the seedlings.

• Too cold water for irrigation can not be used, it is better to take warm, pre-settled. If you use cold tap water, all the plants simply stop growing, throw off the ovaries, and then die. A low temperature during watering provokes the emergence of a fungus; in plants, immunity begins to weaken.
• Do not sprinkle eggplant culture. Water just does not have to fall and linger on the leaves of bushes, because this can cause various diseases, the plant will be injured. Watering should be carried out directly under the root system. The best option is to pour water into the grooves, pre-cooked next to the planted eggplant. Excellent drip irrigation works, this system is considered the most favorable and useful.

• The frequency of watering should be determined individually. Drying or, on the contrary, glutting of soil cover at the roots should not be allowed. In this case, you need a golden mean, while you need to focus on the age of plants and weather conditions. Young saplings is better to water once a week, better in the evening. When the bushes begin to bloom, watering should be reduced, but when the fruit appears, on the contrary, increase the number of waterings.
• Do not forget about dressing. Plant nutrition is carried out three times in one season. For the first time, fertilizing can be done within a few weeks after planting. The following is best done before the formation of buds. The feeding process must be combined with abundant watering, so the plants will not receive chemical burns with the wrong dosage. The final feeding process is needed so that the eggplants get strength to ripen the fruit.
• The amount of water when watering is taken at the rate of 10-15 liters per m². In this case, watering plants planted in a well-lit area, you need early in the morning or after sunset. So it will be possible to protect the leaves of seedlings from thermal burn.

On how to properly water and feed eggplants in the open field, you will learn from the video below.