How to fertilize your tomatoes for free?
How to plant, grow and trellis tomatoes?
What are determinant and indeterminant tomatoes?
Part 1 Starting Tomatoes Indoors: https://youtu.be/scnSA81NDEs
Tomatoes are by far the most popular garden plant of all and for good reason. What is better than walking out to your garden and grabbing a ripe tomato and popping it in your mouth!
Growing tomatoes is more than just planting your favourite kind in the garden. It is about building your soil and nutrient cycle so they can prosper without store bought fertilizer and amendments.
On the last tomato episode we went through selecting a variety, getting them started in the house and hardening them off now it is time to plant them in the garden.
Today I am going to talk about planting location, how I plant mine, how to fertilize them using free and local resources and how to support the different types of tomatoes to maximize your production.
Planting Location:
Depending on the type of tomatoes you will want to plant them in different ways to maximize their production. First of all I identify the type of tomato plant I have. Often on the seed package or plant tag they will tell you if it is a determinant or indeterminant. If it is a determinant the plant will grow to a certain size in ideal conditions and produce one crop all at once. Indeterminamt will continue to grow and produce as long as conditions are favourable. Because of these different growth habits I plant mine in different locations.
Compact Tomatoes:
Sweet N Neat are a compact determinant cherry tomatoes. They are perfect for containers or small spaces and produce lots of sweet tomatoes. I have planted some in a larger planter with other crops and in smaller corners of my main garden bed.
Larger Determinant Tomatoes:
I have some larger determinate tomatoes like my Roma grow to about 4 feet tall and that makes them perfect for tomatoes bags. I have found these small and medium bodies tomatoes do quite well in containers.
One neat variety I have this year is this grafted plant that has a potato root stock and tomato plant above the ground.
Indeterminant Tomatoes:
whereas small and medium tomatoes do well in containers or small spaces I find I get the best production from the larger varieties such as my Pink Brandy Wine if they are planted in the garden bed and have a larger trellis.
These tomato plants will get large so I have planted them in front of my shade tolerant strawberries that should produce prior to the tomato shading them.
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