You can get simple and easy tomatoes by growing them in containers to get those delicious homegrown tasting tomatoes that only green thumb gardeners grow. If you don’t have a lot of space or live in an apartment then tomato growing is great! There are just a few steps you absolutely must know or else you will get those tiny, rotten tomatoes.
1. Tomatoes need sunlight
Tomatoes need at least 6 hours of sunlight. You can put your new tomatoes containers on a patio or in a window sill. Window sills are especially great because they provide a lot of direct sunlight, where the suns shines directly on the plant. Make sure to move the pot around so that it gets the full six hours of sun when growing tomatoes containers.
2. Pick the right plant
You don’t want to get a tomato plant that grows six feet tall, in your kitchen at that! No better to choose a determinate tomato variety. Determinate tomatoes are varieties that only grow a foot or two max. Which is great for you, because one things they go is ripen fast. Just think in as little as two weeks you can have fresh tomatoes in your salad. The smaller varieties ripen quick and with the plant being small you won’t be left with tons of tomatoes that you can’t use.
3. Pick the right pot
Picking the right pot is important because you need proper drainage. That means that the pot needs to have three to four holes in the bottom of the pot. A terracotta pot is a great pot to start with if you are unsure.
4. Pick the right soil
Because tomatoes love being out in the sun so much that can get dried out. You need to make sure that the soil stays nice and moist. Usually tomatoes need to have about one inch of water per week. But when you are growing tomatoes containers it can be a little tricky. To make it easy you need to get a little help by picking the right soil.
5. A little something extra for your growing tomato plant
You can add a layer of rocks to the pot to get even better drainage. There won’t be any soil or anything for the water to slip through, it just glides past the cracks. My secret formula to the best soil is a soil-less mix of sphagnum peat, perlite, and vermiculite. Add a scoop of organic fertilizer to the center of the pot as well as the soil. Mix the fertilizer well into the soil. You only need to add fertilizer every two to four weeks, because tomatoes are slow eaters.
How awesome is it to grow delicious plump tomatoes right in your kitchen! No weeding or going outside on a hot day. You simply water and add fertilizer to your plant. When you grow tomato plants they will taste one hundred times better than the store. So get to growing yours as well.