My vegetable-seed calculator tool can tell you when to start your tomatoes and other crops. All sound like too much trouble? You can direct-sow tomato seed right in the garden if your season is 4 months or longer between frosts…and if you are vigilant about weeding, watering and all the other steps in tomato TLC.
Also to know,Can you grow tomatoes in a vegetable garden?
Growing tomatoes is often the impetus for starting a vegetable garden, and every tomato lover dreams of growing the ultimate tomato: firm but juicy, sweet but tangy, aromatic, and blemish free. Perfection. Unfortunately, there are few vegetables that are prone to more problems than tomatoes.
Besides,Do you need to save tomato seeds for next year?
For seed savers, we’re going to speed up the process. The first step is to choose your best-looking tomatoes. You want to save seed from the finest fruit, so that next year’s plant will have good genes. Remember you should only save seed from open-pollinated (OP) tomatoes.
Just so,When is the best time to transplant tomato plants?
Tomatoes can be transplanted any time after frost danger has passed, but they take much better to warm soils than cool ones. Weed-free soil that has reached 60 to 70 degrees is ideal for transplants —you can test the soil temperature using a probe thermometer.
Can You Make your own tomato plant starter?
Create your own 2 in. biodegradable plant starters out of recycled newspaper. Most of us will probably want to buy seedlings rather than growing tomatoes from seed, since seeds take more time, effort and space.