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Growing Tomatoes From Seeds

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Growing tomato plants from seeds is not that difficult and it is extremely rewarding. You can find a large variety of tomato plant seed packets ad it is fun to experiment with the different varieties you find.

Start out growing your tomato plants indoors about six to eight weeks which is usually early spring before you intend to plant them in an outside garden. You can also place the tomato plant into a pot that can be placed in the sunlight. Scatter your seeds thinly over potting compost placed in a tray. Tomato seeds like warm conditions so you will want to keep your tray in a warm area or in a windowsill. You can also add cling film over the tray to keep the soil from drying out. Once the seedlings begin to appear, remove the cling film. Tomato plants like moist soil but be careful not too over water seedlings.

Tomato plants also love sunlight. If you are growing your seedlings in a tray on a windowsill, make sure that you turn the tray every day or two. This will ensure that all of the plants gain access to the light and grow evenly. Tomato plants will also grow towards the light so if they are not receiving enough light, they may grow bent. Tomato plants can also grow thin and leggy if they do not receive enough light while indoors.

When seedlings have grown to be about 1 to 2 inches high, it is time to transplant them from the tray to individual pots. Carefully separate each seedling being careful not to damage the roots. You should lift the seedlings by the leaves and not the stem because they can easily get damaged at this young stage. Place the seedlings in a hole in the soil which is big enough for its roots. Back fill the hole with compost and water the seedling immediately. Lightly press the compost around the roots to ensure that the roots have good contact with the soil. The seedlings should continue to be kept within the sunlight and turned if the sunlight is uneven. When the seedlings have grown to be about sic to eight inched tall, you should transplant them again into larger pots. During these last stages, you can harden off the seedlings before placing them into an outdoor garden. Hardening them off simply means to get them used to the outdoor temperature which is obviously harder to control then the inside temperature you were growing your seedlings at. Place seedlings outside in the sun for a few hours each day to harden them off.

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Growing Tomato Plants – A Potted Information Guide For Beginners

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Growing tomato plants in your own outdoor vegetable garden is something that many of us think about but quite often never get around to doing. Let me tell you, growing tomatoes is easy to do and nothing compares to the taste of your own fresh organically grown tomatoes.

Believe it or not there are actually over 7,500 varieties of tomato so you have an incredible selection to choose from. Perhaps you like the idea of making your own sauces or salads and if this is the case you might want to look at some of the larger fruits such as Beefsteak or Early Girl. Or maybe you are interested in the smaller more petite ones like the cheery tomato. Growing tomatoes is really easy and whichever variety you decide to go with you will have lots of them when it comes around to picking them at harvest time.

Growing tomato plants outdoors requires a reasonably warm climate. Hardy though they can be, tomato plants don’t handle frost particularly well. Temperatures of around 65 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit during the day would be ideal and no lower than 60 degrees Fahrenheit during the night. This would suggest that the ideal weather conditions for growing tomatoes would be around the end of May.

When planting your tomato plants you need to ensure they are not too close together. You need to be aware that their roots spread out quite a lot under the soil and need plenty of room. Another factor to take into account is that if you do get any pests or diseases and they are too close they can easily be passed on. Also if the leaves from a neighbouring plant create too much shade it can stop the fruits from growing to their full size. Therefore a basic “rule of thumb” guide distance between plants, depending on their size and variety, should be 12 and 36 inches apart.

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Grow Tomato Plants Upside Down – Better Tomatoes

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How do you grow tomatoes upside down and why even bother to do it?

Actually, it’s pretty smart, and many tomato growers swear by the fact that their tomatoes are bigger and more plentiful as a result. This article will discuss how and why to grow upside down tomatoes.

When tomatoes are growing upside down, the shoots and stems are not fighting gravity. Gravity is actually helping the plants to grow so the stems grow stronger and healthier as a result. There is improved air circulation around the plant which also encourages growth.

Another benefit to growing your tomatoes upside down is that you never have to stake them or support them as they develop. Normally with the tomato plants growing rightside up, the plants must be staked or supported to help them bear the weight of the developing tomatoes and keep them from settling to the ground.

When tomatoes are allowed to settle to the ground they fall prey to pests, diseases and rot. It’s a bad thing which must be avoided – and hanging the plants upside down avoids it more effectively than any other technique.

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Common Tomatoe Diseases And Problems

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The very first time I grew tomato plants, I believe, it was a fairly successful season. What I mean is, I harvested a decent amount of fruits and it tasted okay. At the time I did not know anything about tomato plants having diseases, I never thought anything about the yellow leaves, and leaves with spots or even a fruit now and then having a dark spot on it.

It was not until I did a little research about tomatoes and planting them to have more success in future growing seasons, that I found out my first tomato plant had diseases. I also found that there are numerous problems you can encounter, but fear not because my first season was okay even though I did not know anything.

Leaf Spot

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Amazing Tomato Growing Tips

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Tomatoes are of many different varieties and each have been bred to grow best in a particular region with a particular climate. Growing tomato plants is one of the most rewarding and satisfying hobbies because you are able to plan, plant and grow tomatoes all in a few short months. If you are interested in growing tomatoes then you should make sure that you have done all your homework in terms of research in the processes and gardener-tested tomato growing tips. There are some unique and amazing tomato growing tips that are available, which will help the person to have a great time growing these tomatoes.Here is some help with many of the basics of tomato growing that will help you in successfully producing your tomato crop.

Soil preparation:

This is the aspect of tomato growing that has to be completed even before you actually sow the seeds! You have to make sure that the soil in which the tomatoes are going to grow has a lot of natural organic material. Begin your composting early before the season. Add egg shells to your compost for added calcium that tomatoes require. Your soil mix should be a heavy, mulched, slightly acidic soil (pH = 5.5 – 6.5). As your tomatoes mature you will need to apply nutrients. Universal fertilizers (N-P-K) are available at your local nursery. Go easy on the the nitrogen and stronger on the phosphorous and and potassium, for good tomatoes.

Increase production:

Many professional gardeners will spray their plants with tea extract or seaweed. This should be sprayed at least four times when you are growing a tomato plant. The first two times should be immediately after you have replanted the plants with adequate space between them. This phase of spraying gives more strength for the plant to grow. The second time when you spray the substance should be when the flowers are seen on the tomato plant. The third and fourth times are when the tomatoes are growing on the plant. This helps to increase the flowering and the yield that you get from the tomato plants.

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Grow Tomato Plants With No Garden

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There’s a gardener in all of us and growing our own tomatoes is one of the easiest ways to begin. Growing hanging tomato plants is simple to do and can fit around even the busiest of lifestyles. If limited space is a problem, then growing your plants upside down in a hanging planter is the perfect answer.

Having little or no space to grow tomatoes

Not everyone has access to a large garden to grow their own tomatoes and this can put many “beginner gardeners “off before they even start. We’ve all seen these wonderful pictures of big green tomato plants with succulent looking tomatoes on them, growing in what seems to be at least half an acre of garden. But what if we don’t have that sort of area to play with? What if we live in a flat or an apartment and we don’t have any garden at all?

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General Care For Growing Tomato Plants

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Something red, something shiny, something juicy and something sweet… That is how we often describe the tomato fruit that we frequently see in our dining area. You would definitely agree if I say that we can’t get over these fruits. And another thing is that mealtime won’t be complete without the succulent explosion that these fruit would bring us. But why buy these fruits in the market when in fact we can grow it in our own homes? Why have to spend much when you can definitely get it for less. Not just less but much fresher than those you buy since you can have it straight from your own garden or right inside your home. All you need to do is to work it all out in a way that’s simple and absolutely fulfilling.

Taking care of tomato plants begins in the preliminaries of the growing process. You start growing from the first instance that the plant makes contact with your soil. Growing even begins in the planning stage. As you grow, you need to decide on the right area to plant, the right variety to grow and the current weather condition that would affect your developing plant.

You need to consider the area where you are to plant. Whether it be inside your home or in the garden, it is necessary that your plant receives the right amount of sunlight that would make them grow healthy. Your tomato plant needs at least eight (8) hours of direct sunlight which it needs for food production. Photosynthesis happens with the aid of the sun. And besides, your plants would love the warmth.

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Truth About Growing Tomato Plants

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For nearly a century following the introduction of the tomato plant to the Americas, people stayed away from eating it, for the blood-red fruit of the plant was thought to be poisonous. Did you notice that instead of calling a tomato a vegetable, I referred to it as a fruit? The reason being the tomato is actually a fruit, and not a vegetable, which many believe to be the case. We could actually call it a berry, as it is rightfully the ovary of a flowering tomato plant. Believe it or not, the tomato is one of the most commonly cultivated plant species in the USA. In fact, tomato lovers from all over the world grow this plant. If you have tasted a freshly picked tomato, I am sure you will know why.

When selecting tomato varieties to grow, you will soon encounter how much choice the tomato grower is presented with. Tomatoes range in size from small marbles to large softballs. The smaller varieties, which are common in supermarkets these days, are called cherry tomatoes. One of the larger varieties of tomatoes that are also commonly available, are called the beefsteak tomato. But it doesn’t stop with size, there are different types and different colors too. You may have seen tomatoes in colors like orange, yellow or purple.

The way that tomatoes grow can be categorized into two groups: The determinates and the indeterminates.

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Growing Tomatoes – 3 Tips to Enjoying Juicy – Delicious Tomatoes this Summer

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In order to be able to get juicy delicious tomatoes at home, the three most important things you have to get right are:

1.Buying healthy seeds or seedlings

2.Ensuring that your soil is conducive to growing tomatoes

3.Watering the right amount

Tomatoes are really easy to grow once you make sure that you have satisfied the above three conditions. There is a lot of conflicting advice about what to do to grow tomato plants. Most tomato plant problems stem from not having good genes, not having good soil to start with and over watering. If you start with a healthy seed or seedling, make sure that your soil has the right pH and nutrients for growing a tomato plant, and you do not over water then you should have no problems having a successful tomato growing season.

Lets discuss each one individually.

1. Buying healthy seeds or seedlings

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6 Reasons Why You Should Be Growing Your Own Tomato Plants

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Growing tomato plants is not as hard as you might think. Not only that but homegrown tomatoes taste much better than those in the stores! I’ll show you 6 important reasons why you should grow your own tomatoes – even if you don’t have a garden.

Reason #1 Homegrown Tomatoes Taste Great!

Healthy tomatoes grown at home will always taste sweeter and juicier compared to commercial tomatoes. One reason for this is that commercial tomatoes are picked before they are ripe to be transported to the stores where they ripen off the plant (sometimes artificially). Being out of the sun for longer means they have created less sugar and therefore less flavour.

Reason #2 You Can Pick Your Tomatoes from Hundreds of Varieties

Typically you only find 4 or 5 standard varieties of tomatoes in your supermarket that are suited to efficient picking, packing and transport. But there is a whole different world out there when you look at all the tomato varieties available. The heirloom class of tomatoes has hundreds of different sizes, shapes, colors and flavours with tomatoes from all over the world. For example there are the large juicy “beefsteak” varieties that can reach 2lbs in weight, the salty flavor of the “Black Krim” from Russia and the superb “sausage” tomato that is named after its shape! With tomatoes like these you will be adding many unique tastes to your kitchen and cooking.

Reason #3 Growing Your Own Plants Will Give You a Great Sense of Achievement

Nurturing your tomato plants from seedling to maturity and seeing it bear fruit from your efforts will give you a wonderful sense of accomplishment. You will receive a reward for your patient efforts and understand what went in to producing your fruit when you eat them.

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