Practically everyone likes to eat a good tomato. Maybe some like tomato to spread bread and eat a good bread with tomato (pà amb tumàquet) as in Catalonia, or a tomato confit or decorating salads, as is the case of a funny cherry tomato. Or in healthy diets, eat raw tomatoes cherries. The same can happen with tomato jams, sauces … but what if you can do it with your own tomatoes, freshly picked from the garden?
We will explain the most basic and necessary to be able to plant tomatoes by seeds. Without leaving a fortune in preparing a garden, or buying large seedbeds or complications.
Instructions
- To follow strictly and closely when is the best time to plant tomatoes, the really ideal will be, in spring. But be careful, because this vegetable, the tomato, in general, can be grown throughout the year if you have patience and certain care.
- In fact, it can be grown using the seed method and do it in autumn and winter and that tomatoes can come out without problems if they are protected from the cold. The most appropriate will be in these cases, to be able to grow them inside a greenhouse. In this way, the heat of the greenhouse will make it help to bloom earlier and on the other hand, it will protect it from cold, frost, rain and excessive water, etc.
- Also, in case you love to eat tomatoes, you can try to plant different types of tomatoes. Yes, different kinds of this vegetable. Because there are those that, for example, are ideal for spring, others for summer, for autumn, etc.
- The different types of tomatoes that can be found are very diverse, because there are many, but the most used or the most famous, so a priori, can be: the Raf tomato, the cherry tomato, the branch tomato, the black tomatoes, the Kumalo, etc.
- Keep in mind that each tomato has its properties and that there are some that, for example, withstand inclement weather much better and can be sown and bloom during autumn and even in winter, others cost much more because they need sun and heat … And as for tomatoes and their classes, some are more suitable for one thing or another. From the typical small tomato that is ideal for decoration, the tomato for bread, the tomato for salads, the tomato for cooking, the tomato to make preserves and sauces, etc.
- There are also some tomatoes that are more expensive than others. The most economical we could say is the cherry tomato and of the most expensive tomatoes, the pink tomato or also the so-called Raf tomato.
- And well, now we are going to put ourselves in the situation that you want to have your own garden in your house or even, you can also have it in small pots, in pots or greenhouses (which is now fashionable and trendy).
- Depending on the time in which the seeds are planted, it should be taken into account whether a summer or winter garden is made (called this way because of the inclement weather). In case for example you decide to make a spring or summer garden, it is more suitable to make a garden that is outdoors. In case of orchards in autumn and winter, the ideal is to make the garden inside a greenhouse. In this way, the harvest will be protected from frost, cold (which does not go well with the growth of this vegetable), heavy rains, air …
- With an excess of cold or very intense winds, the tomato plants will die or spoil. And with cold or frost, they freeze and die. Therefore, if you have the planting already done but obviously, you cannot place a greenhouse or you cannot buy it or you do not have the space to place it, do not worry. Something that can be done and that serves as if it were almost the same, is to place plastics and cover the tomato plants with it. With this you will get the vegetables to have heat and avoid as much as possible that they freeze or the blow of the rains on the leaves and the tomatoes can split or fall. But of course, for example, hail, perhaps, you will have to always have prepared, something that can be placed on the tomato plants and in this way, avoid as much as possible the impacts on tomatoes.
- It is necessary to calculate that prepare a tomato garden and that the seeds begin to sprout, will depend on the season (in summer with the heat it takes less to sprout) but approximately, you can begin to see their yellow flowers (the process is seeds, tomato, yellow flowers and when the flower falls is the tiny vegetable that is the tomato) at three weeks.
- To plant using seeds, you can use a seedbed or not. Surely in a gardening or flower shop they will say yes and sell you a lot of products to buy. But it is not necessary. The seedbed you can do it yourself at home. Or plant it directly yourself in a pot or pot. Yes, directly. No problem.
- You buy a land that has yes, a good composting that the land to be able to be with a high percentage of potassium in its fertilizer. If you are a little lost in these issues, look when buying the land, that the sack is land to grow vegetables. In these cases, the soil already carries its fertilizer and, in this way, you save doing it by yourself and buying more products from the account or burning the seeds for excess fertilizer.
- Once the tomato plant grows, there will usually be leaves that stay dry and old. In this case, to try to avoid pests and incidentally, that the tomato plant is stronger and by way of pruning, the ideal is to cut, eliminate, remove, these leaves. In this way, the base of the tomato plant will grow stronger and taller and the rest of the branches will not take away strength from the tomato plant and larger and healthier tomatoes will come out.
- Depending on the time in which the seeds are planted, it should be taken into account whether a summer or winter garden is made (called this way because of the inclement weather). In case for example you decide to make a spring or summer garden, it is more suitable to make a garden that is outdoors. In case of orchards in autumn and winter, the ideal is to make the garden inside a greenhouse. In this way, the harvest will be protected from frost, cold (which does not go well with the growth of this vegetable), heavy rains, air …
- As the seeds begin to sprout and the tomato plant grows, you can place sticks to straighten or guide it. When it grows and is tall, you will need to tie it to a rod or sticks. You can use anything that is a little sturdy so that it does not twist (broomstick, wooden stick, reeds, etc.). The same to tie it, not tie it too tightly so as not to drown the tomato plant or break it. A rope, a cord, a rubber, etc.
- As for the type of irrigation, you need moderate irrigation and never have the earth puddled or an excess of water. In addition, you can cause if you do it to be filled with fungi or the leaves wither and you have the tomato plants with pests. In summer, with the heat, the ideal is to water if you can do it, before the strong sun rises, in the morning. And in the late afternoon, if you notice that the earth is very dry again, water again.
What You Need
- Seeds of the tomatoes you have chosen to plant.
- A seedbed.
- A pot.
- A pot.
- Earth.
- Fertilizer.
- A sprinkler.
- Water.
- Sticks for when the tomato plant grows and canes to hold it when it is bigger.
Councils
A trick that many think never goes well but that is wrong and can be achieved and also, for free, is to take advantage of buying seeds and use the seeds of a tomato that you already have. Those seeds or a tomato that you have used, bury it inside the soil (not very deep) with a finger down is enough. And water a little and give him the sun. After two weeks, you should see how the seeds begin to bloom. And if you have succeeded, congratulations, in a few weeks you will have your own tomato plant.