Where To Shop For Tomato Plants
When shopping for tomato plants look for plants that are grown organically or without pesticides.
You can purchase tomato plants:
You can purchase tomato plants:
- At your local garden center or nursery
- Online at Stargazer Perennials
- Online at Farm Fresh Living
- At your local FFA sale
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Heirloom vs. Hybrid
Heirloom tomato plants are true to seed, and you can save the seeds of heirloom tomato plants to grow new tomatoes the next season.Hybrid tomato plants have been selectivity bred to be more disease resistant and to produce higher yields.
How To Grow Tomato Plants From Seed
A fresh picked, juicy tomato is synonymous with summer! Once you have tasted a tomato that you have grown yourself, plucked fresh off the vine and eaten, reverting back to those hard, tasteless alternatives at the grocery store is, well impossible.Tomatoes were originally a tropical perennial plant which accounts for their frost sensitivity. For a bumper summer crop if you live in Zones 6 and below, tomatoes should be started indoors.
How to Grow Tomatoes from Seeds:
- Purchase organic or non-GMO seeds in early January for best selection.
- Sow tomato seeds indoors in sterile seedling mix 6 to 8 weeks before your last spring frost date.
- Plant tomato seeds 1/4 inch deep and then water lightly with warm water and cover with a propagation dome or plastic wrap.
- Check daily and mist as needed to prevent seeds from drying out, but do not over water!
- For optimal sprouting, tomatoes like peppers like a germination heat of 70 degrees to 90 degrees. If needed use a propagation heat mat to increase the bottom temperature of the seeds.
- When the first set of true leaves emerges, gently transplant into 4" pots and place in an area of full light and temperatures of 60-70 degrees.
- Turn the pots on a daily basis to prevent stretching of the seedlings.
- Water as needed to keep the soil moist, but not soggy. Fertilize with Maxi-crop or another liquid organic fish emulsion fertilizer every 10-12 days.
- One week prior to transplanting your tomatoes outside, set your tomatoes outside during the day in a sheltered location to harden off. Bring the tomatoes in at night or cover sufficiently to protect from frost.
