Home Tomato Garden Tips
I wonder if you realize that tomatoes are one of the most popularly grown ‘vegetables’ in a home gardener’s garden? Let’s clarify statement. Firstly, tomatoes are not ‘vegetables’ but ‘fruit’. That’s right, they are fruit of a vine and secondly it is widely known that most home gardeners will plant tomatoes.
Following are some home tomato garden tips to help gardeners have tomato plants that provide lovely healthy tomatoes on their home vines. I was going to say ‘delicious sweet red tomatoes’, but did you realize that there are many tomato varieties that actually are not sweet tomatoes and also there are hundreds of varieties that are not red!
How to choose what tomatoes to grow.
There are two initial considerations to make once you have decided to grow tomatoes and the first one is, “what are you going to do with the ripe fruit” and secondly, “how many varieties do you want to grow.”
What Are You Going To Do With The Tomatoes?
Are you going to use them:
· for salads
· for drying
· in cooking like stews, served with steak etc.
· for making tomato jam
· for making pickles and chutneys
· for supplying family and friends
What Tomato Type Do You Want To Grow?
Now that you have the answers to the above questions the next ones to consider are:
· do you want to grow small tomatoes like cherry tomatoes and grape tomatoes
· what size of tomato do you want to grow – should you be looking for large fleshy fruit and should it be red or yellow or even striped – or something else altogether
· do you want to grow tomatoes that are a little different from the ‘norm’ in color, something like Black Russian or White Beauty
· what garden space do you have in which to grow tomatoes as this will affect the type of tomato vines that you choose as there are indeterminate (tall), determinate (bushy) and semi-determinate (medium height) varieties
· do want plants that produce a lot of fruit or is the quality of the fruit more important
· do you want heirloom (seeds that have not been cross-bred and have the best flavor) or hybrid (seeds that have been cross-bred and are usually used in the commercial market and are not as flavorsome as the heirloom) tomatoes
How Many Varieties To Plant In Your Home Tomato Garden?
Now that you have narrowed down how you are going to use the tomatoes and how many you want to grow in your garden, you can choose the different varieties that will provide you just what you want.
The final decision of how many varieties you can grow in your home tomato garden will, I imagine, come down to just how much room you have in your garden for tomato growing. In making the final decision remember that if you don’t have room to grow all you want in the garden you could plant some of the smaller determinate varieties in containers or pots or maybe grow some upside down tomatoes for a change.
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