When Sow seeds of tomatoes!
It’s almost time to start planting the seeds of tomato harvest this summer. Although there is still snow on the ground in many parts of the country, planting these little seeds gives us something to do while we are waiting for warmer weather.
Browsing catalogs seeds of different types of tomatoes is not only fun, but necessary if you are going to select just the right plants for your garden. A visit to your store or Wal-Mart seeds from the store can offer a few varieties of tomato seeds. If you want something different, order from a seed catalog or the Internet.
Selection the seeds that we use is almost as fun as glue on the potting mix. I plant both types of tomatoes in my garden in determinate and indeterminate plants.
The first are those plants that ripen all at once with lots of fruit. The latter are those who continue to produce new shoots and new fruit throughout the growing season. It’s exciting plant to boast of the abundance you have in your garden tomatoes.
There are also early, midseason and late varieties covering the entire growing season where you live. For accurate color in your garden, there are red, pink, green, yellow, golden orange and tomato plants.
Mixed with all this mixture of colors, plants with fruits are very dark with names such as Black Cherry, black zebra, Cherokee purple and black plum. There are also tomatoes are red with green stripes, Golden Yellow with red stripes and orange-yellow with red stripes.
After daydreaming about a huge garden with at least one of each plant in the catalog, it’s time for a reality check. Select a few varieties that you would like to plant and put them in the mixture of soil to germinate.
It is important to start with a good quality potting soil even though some commercial growers use a mixture of sawdust and sand of age. I think the potting soil with a little vermiculite added to make it loose, it works fine.
Start the seeds of five to six weeks before the early frost past. This schedule will allow the plant started from seed, to hit the garden when the soil temperature is warm. If the soil is too fresh ground just sit there and leave you scratching your head as to why it is not flower.
Almost everyone who has any type of garden, either plants or flowers, have plenty of stories that the old plants occupied last spring. I use these as well as old yogurt cups to start my tomatoes. Plant seeds about one-eighth of an inch deep and should flourish, if good seed.
Over the years I learned that the young tomato plants as a breeze, so they can dance in the wind. After that I have a pair of leaves on them, place a small fan set on low, near the seedlings and they believe that are in the garden and all the elders. They seem a little stronger than those raised without stirring the air around them.
When plants get four leaves on them, the transplanting of the story you have in a cup or container of their own. When spring arrives, place the plants outside for a few hours a day. This will allow harden and be ready to be placed in your garden. The time from setting the seed to the creation of the plant is seven to eight weeks.
Another option for growth of tomato plants is to wait until spring and buy seedlings that are already six to eight inches in height. It’s easier that way, but not as much fun as them from seed and watching them grow up to be big, beautiful tomatoes.
About the Author
Bob Alexander is well experienced in outdoor cooking, fishing and leisure living. Bob is also the author and owner of this article. Visit his sites at: http://www.bluemarlinbob.com/
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