| Spring is here and tomato lovers are thinking | | | | keep taking off leaves as new ones form, and |
| about that sweet taste of a home grown tomato. | | | | push more soil around the stem. Keep taking off |
| These are one of the easier vegetables to grow, | | | | leaves and adding soil until the well is full. Even |
| but tomato gardening tips are always welcome. | | | | then you can shore up the root system buy |
| Whether you have a large backyard garden, or | | | | making a mound around the plant. Keeping this |
| containers on your deck, you are dreaming of the | | | | vast root system watered daily is even more |
| day the soil is warm enough to get down and | | | | important as the plant's health depends on it. |
| dirty and plant your tomatoes deep into the | | | | Now you must understand, this will not take the |
| newly prepared soil. | | | | place of other tomato gardening tips involving |
| One of the best tomato gardening tips I learned | | | | staking, or cages to hold the plants up. Some with |
| that really has made the biggest difference when | | | | lots of room will let them grow on their well |
| planting them, is that it is really important to plant | | | | mulched ground. Anyone who has ever grown |
| tomatoes deep. The deeper you can plant them | | | | tomatoes knows that at one point it just goes |
| the better. Your goal is to establish a strong root | | | | wild and you can hardly keep up with all the |
| system using the stem of the plant as a kind of | | | | shoots. You keep pinching new growth and taking |
| rod and roots growing not only from the bottom | | | | care of the plants, but you will know that |
| of the stem but off the sides. The stronger the | | | | underneath there is a strong root system giving |
| root system, the less likely they will fall all over | | | | you the best nutrients possible from the soil. |
| the place as the plant grows bigger. | | | | There are many tomato gardening tips that will |
| This is what need to do, when you buy your | | | | come your way. There is lots to learn about their |
| plants get the taller ones. Cut off all the leaves | | | | best care and it seems each year you try |
| except the top two or three and plant the | | | | something different. One thing that should never |
| tomatoes deep enough so the only thing showing | | | | change and become a part of your standard care |
| is those top leaves. Leave a well around it, up to | | | | is to plant tomatoes deep and keep them |
| a foot deep, so that as the plant grows, you | | | | watered. |