We love tomatoes, especially those fresh and homegrown ones. However, there are questions that you might be asking, “How can I grow tomatoes and have the best abundance of them?” Here are easy tomato growing tips that can be extremely helpful for you that will give you rewarding results during harvest.
First, tomatoes are heat lovers. Before you plant the tomatoes you must preheat the soil where you will be planting them. Give time allowance before you plant them by covering the area with red or black plastic for a couple of weeks. Plastics can give extra degrees of warmth which can help you harvest early tomatoes.
Next, you must plant tomatoes deeply into the soil. It will make them healthy. Make sure that the seedlings that you will be planting have already developed six leaves.
Plant the seedlings deep enough that only the four leaves are showing above the soil. Tomatoes develop roots along the stems. It will able them to create a very strong root system.
Here’s another great growing tomato tip, you may also plant in sideways into the ground. However, it must be within a shallow trench. It could straighten up over time and will definitely grow towards the sun. This kind of planting though may need you extra care for the plant. Most especially if you will be inserting the pole. You must be very careful so it wouldn’t pierce the root of the tomato plant.
There are several growing tomato tips that can help you maintain the plant healthy all throughout the growing season.
Here are some ways how to take good care of your tomato plants:
1) Prune the plant most especially the suckers.
2) Removing the suckers that developed in the joint of the two branches.
Suckers do not produce plants; rather, they only take away the energy of the plant.
3) prune some leaves so that the sun could reach the plant and help ripen the fruits.
However, just be careful that you won’t be removing too much leaves from your tomato plant. Leaves play a vital role to tomatoes. They do the photosynthesizing and the creation of sugars that usually gives the flavor of the tomatoes.
4) Water the tomato plants regularly and deeply.
5) Lessen the watering routine when they start to bear fruits. This will able the plant to coax the concentration of the sugars.
Watering the tomato plant is one of the most important things so you could grow them abundantly. However, you must be careful not to over water them because it could stress them that will lead to dropping of their blossom and even the fruits.