Compatibility of tomatoes with other plants in the same greenhouse

Tomatoes in most parts of the country are grown in greenhouses or in beds under film.The only way to wait for the harvest of ripe fruit common varieties of tomato. On their 6 acres, gardeners put greenhouses in the first place for them, but at the same time, the construction area is calculated so that there is room for other plants. To avoid mistakes, and not to harm the main crop, one should know with which plants the tomato will grow and yield without loss, and which crops will be comfortable in the same greenhouse with tomatoes. It is important to maximize the area of ​​the greenhouse to obtain a high yield of all the plants located in it.

To select the neighbors in the beds you need to start from the agrotechnology of tomato cultivation, which is the main crop in the greenhouse. The best cultures are selected from the list of desired applicants for compatibility. Plants should be suitable for agro-cultivation with tomatoes.

The following agrotechnical features of tomato greenhouse cultivation are considered important:

• rare watering under the root;
• high lighting requirements;
• intolerance of high humidity and air stagnation in the greenhouse;
• moderately warm air temperature;
• top dressing with organic fertilizers.

It becomes clear that it is not recommended to grow crops next to tomatoes that love sprinkler irrigation or require shading from light. The same applies to plants, bringing a good harvest in hot weather and high humidity.

In agronomy there is a long-proven system of compatibility of crops. It is based on researching not only the possibilities of crop neighborhood and the effectiveness of crop rotation, but also on studying the beneficial effects of plants on each other in mixed crops and plantings. Such a system should be actively used both in agro-industrial farms and in private horticulture.

It is enough to compare the agrotechnology of the cultivation of any two crops to get the correct answer to the question of whether these plants are combined in one greenhouse or not.

If we compare tomatoes and cucumbers, it becomes obvious that plants are completely incompatible under the conditions of normal development:

• cucumbers love irrigation with sprinkling, and for tomato this irrigation is a direct path to diseases;
• cucumbers need high temperature and humidity, and for tomatoes such conditions are destructive;
• fresh air and frequent airing are necessary for tomatoes, and draft is contraindicated for cucumbers.

Cucumbers love other growing conditions, so they have nothing to do next to tomatoes.

In the sense of neighborhood, the main vegetable crops in relation to tomatoes can be divided into three groups:

• good neighborhood;
• tolerant;
• unacceptable.

This separation is based not only on the principles of plant similarity in agricultural cultivation and conditions of cultivation. Biological features, susceptibility to diseases and the effects of plants on each other are also taken into account. There are cultures that agrotechnics and the conditions of existence fully meet the requirements of the cultivation of tomatoes, but have the same diseases with them, which is unacceptable for their union in the same bed. It is necessary to consider in detail each group separately.

A greenhouse is an expensive facility for the farm, and therefore the owner wants to use it as efficiently as possible with good benefits. One of the ways to achieve maximum returns from the greenhouse are compacted planting. The best neighbors and predecessors of the tomato are selected and sown in the greenhouse in early spring, when there is still a month or so before planting the tomato seedlings.For this purpose can serve all varieties of onions on the feather (it is on the greens), radishes, parsley, sorrel, early cabbage (seedlings). All these cultures have good compatibility with tomato and its predecessors.

Named plants are planted both in a separate garden next to the future planting site of tomatoes, and together with them. At the same time, the landing sites for seedlings of the main crop remain free. By the time the tomato seedlings are transported to the greenhouse, some of the plants will yield, and can be used as long as the tomato bushes are still developing and do not bring any inconvenience to the planted crops. Later, the old planting of greens can be removed and other cultures planted, which was suitable for planting in the greenhouse. The vacated space is often used for the second harvest of green.

Early white cabbage grows well on the same bed with tomato, as the latter deters cabbage-butterflies. Good neighbors for tomatoes are the following crops: Chinese cabbage, radish, legumes (except peas), celery, corn, carrots, basil, watermelons. Onions and garlic planted between the rows, will save the tomato from blight and the Colorado potato beetle. Asparagus, planted next to the bushes, protects its volatile secretions from the worst enemy of the nightshade - nematodes. Melissa and basil will give the fruit of the main culture an improved taste.

Tomato tolerates those plants that do not bring him any harm, but there is no benefit from them either. For example, strawberries planted together with tomato bushes will surely bring a good and high-quality crop, without harming any of the crops growing in good proximity with tomatoes.

The same can be said about some other plants.

1. Beet. Next to tomato bushes, this culture feels cozy: warm, adequate shading, fresh air and normalized watering.
2. Salad. From the neighborhood with the brood wins only lettuce: there are no fleas, which can destroy its shoots in a day, a favorable microclimate and the absence of direct sunlight under the branches of a spreading bush.
3. Kohlrabi cabbage Compatibility with tomato is slightly worse than that of cabbage, but plants do not interfere with each other.
4. Parsnip. This plant is comfortable in the greenhouse, but the benefits of the main culture from it is not observed.
5. Spinach. It develops like a salad: you can plant it side by side - there is no harm, your own yield is good, for a season at least 2 plantings.

In the conditional tolerance group, it is possible to distinguish Bulgarian pepper and eggplants, which, together with a tomato, belong to the same type of plant - solanaceous. Although they have similar agricultural techniques, they differ somewhat in terms of microclimate conditions: pepper and eggplants love a higher temperature and humidity conditions. But this problem is easily solved by special placement of plants in the greenhouse.

But the same diseases make some gardeners consider pepper and eggplant to be incompatible with each other and with tomato. But most experts do not support this point of view, arguing in favor of the compatibility of solanaceous crops with a competent selection of hybrid varieties of tomatoes resistant to late blight and other diseases for joint planting. If at the same time plant onions with garlic with tomatoes, then there is no need to fear common diseases.

The biggest problem for the gardeners is the fact that in the same greenhouse with tomato it is impossible to grow cucumber, which is one of the most important vegetables for Russians. Few people manage to get a good harvest when they are co-located. If you adhere to growing conditions for one of them, then you do not have to hope for the yield of the other, and vice versa. These vegetables are incompatible neither by agricultural technology, nor by microclimate conditions.

In addition to cucumbers, an unacceptable neighborhood of the main crop has been identified with a number of garden plants:

• with potatoes;
• with dill;
• with peas;
• with fennel;
• with broccoli and cauliflower;
• with squash;
• with turnip.

Potatoes - a close relative (solanaceous), prone to late blight more than tomato. Therefore, it is advisable to plant it in the opposite side of the greenhouse. But very few people would think of using the greenhouse area for potatoes - it does not need greenhouse conditions. Dill and fennel belong to umbrella plants that do not get along well with any neighbors, including with solanaceous crops. Umbrella plants love freedom, oppress other plants, not yielding to anyone in the fight for space and food.

Peas can not be planted next to the tomato, and this is due to a common fungal disease - Fusarium. For the same reason, it is not recommended to plant the hairy stalk in the beds, where peas were previously grown. Broccoli and cauliflower have a depressing effect on the tomato, but it also pays them with the same coin. Zucchini should have specially prepared soil, with fresh manure that does not like solanaceous (the roots are burning), so it will be difficult for them to live in a close greenhouse.

It is more profitable for a country house to build one large greenhouse than a few small ones The best option is for three rows of beds, where in the middle row plant a tomato as the main crop, and place all the other plants in the extreme rows. The benefit is that with this arrangement, it is possible to create favorable conditions even for cultures incompatible in one greenhouse. Middle beds with open doors greenhouses will be well ventilated and the tomato will be comfortable.

In one of the extreme rows will accommodate cucumber plants, and in the other - mixed plantings (for example, cabbage, peppers, eggplants). These rows are separated from the central screen of the film and the draft from the central doors of the greenhouse will not be able to penetrate there. Cucumbers and mixed cultures will also be provided with a proper microclimate.

If the greenhouse is small, but there is a desire to grow not only tomatoes but also cucumbers in it, then in this case it is better to divide the greenhouse along two or three parts in the same screen, separating the beds with cucumbers, peppers (eggplants) from the beds with Tomato. Tomato beds should be the first of the greenhouse entrance doors (for better ventilation of the room). If this is not possible, then go out alone - take the cucumbers out of the greenhouse into the open ground or arrange for them a separate greenhouse under the film.

Peppers and eggplants, when selecting appropriate varieties of tomato, get along quite well together, but on separate beds. There are many examples of this in the responses of gardeners. In greenhouses there are opportunities for effective control of late blight. For example, the use of copper wire, which pierce the main stems of each plant bush, replanting in the aisle of onion, garlic and basil.

Greenhouses are more intelligent to place elongated from west to east, and the beds - along its long sides. For cucumbers, more humid beds, located on the north side, are usually taken away for tomatoes, as already noted - the middle strip of the greenhouse, and more thermophilic crops (peppers, eggplants) - the sunny southern row of the beds.When choosing tomato seeds, one should be guided by the rules for ensuring optimum illumination of plants so that it does not turn out that one row of tomato bushes will completely shade another row during the daylight. It is always necessary to take into account which side of the greenhouse is the sun, what is the height and density of future plants.

For more information about the neighborhood of vegetables in one greenhouse, see the video.