Grow your own Tomatoes

Posted on July 25, 2007 in latest news

If you want to start your own vegetable garden, then tomatoes are the best ‘first’ vegetables that you should start with. Since growing tomatoes is easy it gives great boost to veggie gardener’s confidence. No wonder they are so popular, in fact a vegetable is rather incomplete without tomatoes.

There are a lot of varieties of tomatoes you could chose from. The most popular ones being Cherry Tomato and Beefsteak.

Procedure

  1. Plant your seeds in small containers about 8 weeks before the last frost. Southerners can start a little later for a fall crop.
  2. Try the commercial seed starting mix or potting soil mixed with an equal amount of vermiculite, perlite or peat moss.
  3. Cover the tomato seeds no more than 1/4 inch deep.
  4. Take a small disposable plastic container with a lid and a small drainage hole to germinate the seeds.
  5. Put the container at a warm and dry place like the top of your refrigerate, this will help seeds to germinate.
  6. Remove any covers as soon as the tomato seeds germinate and move the cups to a sunny window or grow under florescent lights.
  7. Harden your plants by regularly by bringing them outside during the daytime and for increasing hours, until you are leaving them out overnight.
  8. On the day you decide to plant your seedlings in the garden, pour liberal amounts of water with a soluble liquid fertilizer.
  9. Plant them in the garden carefully avoiding transplant shock and disturbing the roots.
  10. Initially fertilize your plants with Nitrogen rich fertilizers. Make sure you don’t use a lot of it. This would give your plants a lot of leaves and less fruit.
  11. Shift to Phosphorus and Potassium once blossoming occurs.
  12. Water your tomato plants well. Let the moisture go deep to all the roots of the plants.
  13. Maturing time taken varies from type to type. Beefstalks take the longest time to mature almost 2-3 months.
  14. If you do not get the desired results do not worry, that might be because of cold and hot spells. Temperature below 55 degrees Fahrenheit or above 90 degrees Fahrenheit will not favor fruit set. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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