Gardening Tips for your Tomato Plants

Tip 1.

Old cotton bed sheets ripped into strips work great for tying up your tomato plants to steaks, the cotton is soft and will not damage the stem as the plant grows.

Tip 2.

A very mild (water and environment friendly dish soap ) solution, is a great way to deter bugs from eating your tomato plants. Simply mix the solution in a spray bottle, and spray them every 2 weeks throughout the time that your tomatoes are turning red.

Tip 3.

If you can start your plants early enough indoors you may be able to have a double harvest from your tomatoes during one summer growing season.

Tip 4.

When you have tomatoes starting to go bad and you can't keep up with canning/eating them save the seeds for next years growing season.

Tomato and pepper container garden - photo by Healy

Tip 5.

If you do not have a garden or you live in an apartment tomatoes can be grown to full maturity in large pots. although this task is difficult even when grown on a balcony try choosing a small variety of tomato like cherry tomatos.

Tip 6.

Tomatoes are really hearty plants and do not need any chemical fertilizers to grow into luscious plants, with bountiful harvests. If you are an avid gardener and would like to have the best tomatoes on your block, use organic fertilizers and compost.

Tip 7.

Many people have started growing tomatos upside down with great success. By cutting a hole in the bottom of a container and carefully planting the tomato upside down. As the plant grows it will not need to be steaked and your tomatoes wont succomb to the insects when not properly steaked off of the ground.

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