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Question

how do u grow tomatoes

Answer 1

u should first get some sproutlings and put a cage around them.water them realy good,and germinate them to make sure they dont get eatin by the bugs.and keep this daily baces.oh,and only water them in the morning or at night because it can burn the plant.

Answer 2

You can start to grow tomatoes from seeds, or the easier way is to buy tomato plants that have been started in a greenhouse and are already several inches tall. When the weather consistentlystays above 50-60 degrees at night you can transplant them into the garden. Make sure you have loosened up the soil well with a roto-tiller or a shovel. Plant the tomato plants about 2 feet apart, and keep them well watered. As they get taller, support the branches with a wire tomato plant cage, or a trellis. as the tomatoes begin to develop, keep the tomatoes from laying on the ground, or they will start to rot before they get completely ripe.

Answer 3

Go to a garden center and buy tomato plants already started. Use a shovel and break up the soil and plant them in the soil about as deep as the top soil in the planter. Keep the soil moist, and when they start to grow you can either use wooden stakes about 4-5ft tall and secure the vine to them with wire ties. The other way is with a tomato cage that is placed over the plant and as the plant grows you can put the stems through the wires and it will support the plant and the tomatoes it bears. We also used to put Epsom salt near the base of the plant. Another tip, we used to plant Marigold's around the tomatoes, it helped with critters and bugs.

Answer 4

You're usually better off to start with plants than seeds. Tomatoes can be grown in pots or in a garden. In either case, the plants will need cages or stakes to climb on. There's even a hanging pot on the market that lets vines hang and grow upside-down, but I've never used one.

Answer 5

Best buy plants in 4" pots and about 4-12" high. If it is cold. put them in bigger pots with potting soil until it is warmer. If you want to grow them in pots get really big pots. When you put them outside, give them lots of room. We plant ours about five feet apart. Wire cages are better than nothing, But I make 6' high teepes with 2x2 stakes and cross pieces at 16" 32" and 4' We like early girl because they bear early here in oregon where it is slow getting warm and the summers are short. They need lots of water and sun. don't let them touch the ground or slugs will bite them. When we grew them in arizona, they had to be shaded. Early girl variety are nice meaty eating tomatoes. You need to help or tie the limbs up. My wife uses old panty hose cut in strips, so not to cut the vines.

Answer 6

Most home and garden stores have the plants already started. Look at the tags and descriptions and see which sounds best. Plant them in an area which receives good sunlight, install creeping cages or stakes. Keep well watered and watch for the bugs. They are actually pretty easy to grow. Enjoy.

Answer 7

First you get some seeds and put them in good soil. Find a tomato cage, and put it on top of the soil on the seeds. Water the tomatoes regularly, and pick them when they're red and ripe.

Answer 8

Put tomato cages around them, that way they will climb to the cage and not sag on the ground. Make sure you water them every day if it is hot in your area.

Answer 9

First, know what you're looking for. There are two basic kinds of tomatoes: Indeterminants are taller because they grow, flower and fruit until frost. 'Early Girl' and 'Burpee's Burger' are examples. Determinant tomatoes are bushier, shorter and better for growing in pots. 'Northern Exposure' and 'Sweet Tangerine' are popular determinants.

• Tomatoes do best in a raised bed against a south-facing wall for reflected heat. Anywhere else still needs to provide the consistent heat tomatoes crave and a minimum six hours of direct sunlight each day.

• Soil is another vital component so use an organic humus with compost and manure mixed in. When and how the plants are put into the ground is important, too.
Usually around Mother's Day (second Sunday in May) is fine for planting or transplanting, but tomatoes just sit there until the soil temperature reaches 55 degrees.
Best trick: Plant the tomato so deeply that most of the stem and all but the top two layers of leaves are underground, as roots will develop along all the stem that is under the earth. With taller tomatoes, dig a trench and bend the stem so the roots develop in the warmer soil near the surface.

• Tomatoes need staking. Pound a piece of rebar deep into the ground to stabilize the tomato cage, so that when the plant is heavy with fruit it won't topple over. If plants are to be staked or trellised, space them 24" apart in rows three feet apart. For cages be sure to get fencing with at least 6" spacing between wires so that you can get your hand inside to harvest the tomatoes. If tomato plants in wire cages are pruned at all, once is enough; prune to three or four main stems. Wire-cage tomatoes develop a heavy foliage cover, reducing sunscald on fruits and giving more leeway when bottom leaves become blighted and have to be removed. Many staked plants are nearly naked by late summer. Caged plants are less prone to the spread of disease from plant handling, since they do not have open wounds and must be handled less frequently than staked plants. However, it helps to space the plants somewhat further apart (three feet is good) to allow good air circulation between plants; humidity is higher because of the foliage density, and diseases such as late blight spread rapidly in humid situations. If well-nourished and cared for, caged tomatoes can produce exceptional harvests and make up for the extra space with high production. This type of culture is especially suited to indeterminate varieties.

• Never water from above; water on the leaves causes fungus to grow. Water thoroughly twice a week until the end of August, then much less to stress the plant so the fruit will ripen before the weather gets too chilly. Also remove all blossoms, so that the plant's energy goes into ripening the fruit already on the vine rather than to produce new fruit.
Fertilizer Needs: Heavy feeder. Use starter solution for transplants. Pour approximately one pint of starter solution (2 Tbsp. 5-10-10 or 5-10-5 fertilizer per gallon of water, or dilute fish emulsion) around each plant to wash the soil around the roots.
Side dress 1 to 2 weeks before the first tomato ripens with 1-1/2 ounces 33-0-0 per 10-foot row. Side dress again 2 weeks after the first ripe tomato with a balanced fertilizer such as 5-10-5; repeat 1 month later
When shopping for tomatoes, avoid pale-green, spindly plants in 2-inch pots, as their root systems are already deficient. Look for short, dark-green plants with sturdy stems in at least 4-inch pots — they'll put on plenty of top-growth once roots are well established. And you know those little tags that say how many days it takes each variety to ripen? They are not exactly true, it depends on how many sunny days the plants get.

Territorial Seed Co.: 20 Palmer Ave., Cottage Grove, OR 97424. [phone].

Early Cascade–reliable production and a staple for many people's home canning.
Celebrity–a consistent winner of taste trials. The fruit is often at its peak ripeness in September.

Golden Treasure–ripens inside in Nov.- Dec., the longest lasting and best flavor of all the keeper varieties. (Especially better than the Calgene Tomato.)

Saucy–a canner with production, meat and flavor

Sun Gold–tropical orange fruit with a flavor that has consistently won it top honors at all taste trials. Cherry in size and very productive.
Stupice (OP) 60-65 days. This cold-tolerant tomato ripens sweet, red, slightly oval, 2 inch fruit that make an excellent choice. Stupice consistently gets high marks for taste throughout the summer. Pumps out fruit over the entire season. Bred in the former Czechoslovakia. Indeterminate potato leaf variety. Stupice–proven the most productive and disease resistant tomato in all Seattle Tilth trials. Some say the skin is too thick.

Answer 10

in a garden or a planter...