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Growing Tomatoes In Different Tempatures Guide

The growing tomatoes temperature is important when considering the right time to plant your tomato plants, in order to optimize your plant’s growth potential. What is the best tomato plant temperature when planting? When is the best time for gardening? What do you need to consider in tomato seedling temperature, soil temperature, how to grow tomatoes in cold or hot climate and more.

These are some of the common questions I get. I will go into these one-by-one to help you conspicuously understand how to go about this dilemma in growing tomato plants.

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Growing Tomatoes In Your Garden – Here Are The Basics

For many people, tomatoes are often the first option when it comes to establishing a vegetable garden. Planting and nurturing your own tomato plants is not hard and the rewards of being able to eat fresh, organic tomatoes are immeasurable.

There are no fewer than 7,500 types of tomato plants to choose from, a fact that surprises most people. You may favour a smaller tomato such as Cherry tomatoes, purely for their taste, or you might choose the larger Beefsteak tomato, well suited to salads or making your own sauces. Given the ease with which can grow tomatoes, you can be sure of enjoying enough tomatoes at harvest time.

As a general rule, warm conditions are preferred by tomato plants to thrive in an outdoor garden because they are usually unable to withstand frost. The recommended growing temperature is between 18-30 degrees Celsius (65 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day and no cooler the 15 degrees Celsius (60 degrees Fahrenheit) during the night. Between April and June is deemed to be the best period in which to grow tomatoes, or October to December in the Southern hemisphere.

When planting your tomato seeds, be sure not to plant them too closely together. As the plants grow, the roots will expand beneath the soil, requiring plenty of room. There is the risk that growing plants too close together often may result in them sharing pests and diseases. Close planting could also suppress the growth of the fruit by becoming shaded by the leaves of nearby plants that are too close together.

7 Deadly Tomato Plant Diseases and How to Spot Them

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Your tomato plants can be quite vulnerable to a whole range of unpleasant little diseases. Unfortunately, many tomato plant diseases are fungus-based and pretty lethal. But if you identify them early you might be able to take some action and save your plant. Or at least stop the disease spreading to your other plants.

Here are ten of the most common diseases and some hints on how to spot them:

1. Bacterial Spot & Bacterial Speck

This highly contagious disease which most commonly strikes during wet or moist weather, when the plant is not properly ventilated and kept dry. It can be quite hard to control, because it’s so contagious be sure not to move the contaminated spot about.

You’ll recognize it from dark, raised spots appearing on the fruit or leaves.

Hanging Tomato Plants – An Option For Small Gardens

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Tomato plants are one of the easiest and most popular vine plants to grow but, as with all homegrown vegetables and fruits, it pays to do your homework up front to make sure you can successfully grow your own tomatoes or any other vegetables. Selecting the right location and using the right soil or compost mix will set you on your way to successful tomato crops.

One of the best options available to people with small gardens that will still allow them to grow a few tomato plants and enjoy the satisfaction of eating fresh homegrown tomatoes is to use a hanging planter, the planter can be hung in any convenient location, remembering of course that tomato plants need plenty of sun and plenty of water.

The main benefit of using a hanger in a small garden is that you need very little space in which to hang it and instead of spreading out to take up a large area they tend to hang straight down and occupy vertical space rather than horizontal space. So plenty of scope for the fruit to grow but in a long vertical line.

Growing Tomatoes Basics – Easy Steps For a Great Crop

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Whilst tomatoes are technically a fruit, they’ve long been popular choices in vegetable gardens and people have been growing tomatoes around the world for centuries. The Europeans thought they were a poisonous fruit at the time of first discovery and it took nearly a century before they began growing and consuming them in great numbers.

In order to know how to grow tomato plants you must first know a little about the main few types of tomato plants available. These include:

The Cherry Tomato: A small version of a normal larger tomato, derived from dwarf bush plant types.

Easy Tips For Growing Tomato Plants Successfully – Keeping Things Simple!

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Finding decent tomato growing tips that are actually usable can be difficult. There’s lots of information available out there but it tends to be stuffed with technical jargon that can put the beginner off before they even start! Sure the ph of the soil and balance of nutrients is important, but let’s not get bogged down with all of that too soon. Here’s some simple, easy to follow advice to get you going.

Growing you own tomatoes is great fun and having spent weeks tenderly cultivating and caring for your plants you can enjoy eating those wonderful fruits of your labour. Until you’ve actually eaten one of your own home grown tomatoes you will not know just how tasteless store bought tomatoes really are! But let’s get a little realistic here. Although growing your own isn’t particularly difficult, you will need to follow a few simple but important rules if you are going to have a chance of growing anything that will end up being edible!

The first thing you need to decide is where you are going to grow your plants. Planting outside in natural sunlight, with fresh warm breezes and carefully mixed soil is probably the ideal place. But you should be aware that with an outside garden, pests and diseases have easy access to your cherished tomatoes. Proper care must also be taken when preparing the soil before you even think about planting anything. To get the soil right you need to mix some good quality manure in with it a couple of weeks before planting to get all the nutrients released into it. There are more things you can add to the soil that can help the growth of your plants but for now let’s keep it simple.

Growing Organic Tomato Plants

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Growing tomato plants is the most popular choice of individual gardeners for their home gardens. The plants are easy to grow and yield delicious fruit that can be incorporated into many foods or eaten raw. But many gardeners worry about pesticides and unnatural fertilizers and the effect these may have on the plants and the people who eat them. Some gardeners therefore choose growing tomato plants organically.

The key to growing anything organically is to avoid things like pesticides that contain unnatural chemical elements. Organic tomatoes should be grown in a warm sunny location. This can be anything from a container inside the home to a pot hung upside down to in the ground outside in a traditional garden. They should be given ample water as they grow.

Different types of tomatoes grow better or worse in different parts of the world and different climates. Discovering which varieties work best in a specific part of the world requires some research. Often nurseries or gardening publications will be able to advise as to which types of tomato plants have the most successful history of growing in a given location.

Growing Tomato Plants – 7 Common Problems

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A tomato plant can be a very easy or very difficult plant to have success with depending on what you do. The best part about them is that you really only need to get a few things right and you are all set. The worst part is that if you don’t get them right things can quickly deteriorate into a real mess.

So in this article I will list the 10 most common problems that you will face in your tomato garden adventures.

1) Frost: Tomato plants cannot stand frost it is their number one weakness. Making sure that the frosts are over before you plant and warming the bed in preparation for your seedlings will ensure that you don’t suffer a loss of crops from this.

Greenhouse Growing For Tomato Plants

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There are a couple of ways for approaching tomato growing in a greenhouse, you can either dig and prepare the soil of the greenhouse ready to accept the tomato plants or you can grow the plants in a container such as a plant pot (12″ diameter) or growbag.

Realistically most growbags that are available which can be 35 or 40 litres in size are only enough to support two plants. There are ways in which you can push this out to 3 plants but for the cost of a growbag its probably as well just to stick to 2 plants, particularly if you take good care of them and produce lots of fruit.

If you go for pots then you should steralise them before use, to do this you can use a dilute solution of a suitable disinfectant, something like Jeyes fluid is perfect for this task.

While we are on this subject, you really should wipe down the inside of your greenhouse with disinfectant as well to ensure any residual contaminants that could also cause disease are removed from the glass.

Learn To Plant Tomato Seeds Correctly

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Tomatoes are one of the most popular ingredients in our recipes. Many people do experience tomato growing problems even though they are one of the common fruit vegetables that families can easily cultivate at home. In order to reap bountiful of luscious fruit crops make sure that you choose the right variety of tomato. The appropriate variety is dependent on where you intend to grow your tomato plants.

The constant mistakes frequently encountered by most people starting to grow tomatoes at home are incorrect choice of variety, when to plant, over planting, planting in the wrong area, growth of pests, and insufficient knowledge on how to successfully grow tomatoes in your own backyard.

All these problems can be avoided if you know how to effectively grow tomato plants at home. Let us discuss on each matter one by one. The first is what type of variety you should choose if you have limited garden space. There are two kinds of varieties, the determinate and indeterminate kind. If you have only a small space you may opt to choose the determinate kind which means they will grow only for about three inches in height. Pots or any containers are suitable for planting tomatoes with small places or having a patio.