Who doesn't fancy a toast with scrubbed tomato, a little oil and salt in the morning? This is one of the most typical breakfasts in the Mediterranean region, if not the most. Often a slice of sausage is put on it (York ham, Serrano ham ... or whatever you like the most) and it is accompanied with a cup of coffee or tea. But do you know what tomato is used? Not just any one, of course, if not the one to hang up.
So if you want to know how to grow hanging tomato to be able to prepare delicious toasts or other recipes, go putting on the gardening gloves we started 🙂.
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Planting the hanging tomato is not much of a mystery, since you have to follow the same steps as with any other variety of tomato. Is the following:
In spring, a seedling tray is filled with universal growing medium and watered well until well soaked.
Afterwards, a maximum of 2 seeds are placed - I personally recommend putting only 1, since it will almost certainly germinate - in each socket.
They are then covered with a thin layer of substrate.
Then, the seedling is placed in a plastic tray without holes.
Finally, you have to water - pouring the water into the tray without holes - very often to prevent the substrate from drying out.
When the seedlings have reached a height of about 10cm, it will be time to move them to the garden or to a larger pot. Let us know how to proceed in each case:
Orchard
The first thing to do is clear the ground: we must remove wild herbs, stones, debris (if any). Then, it must be install the drip irrigation system and lay the trellis, as seen in the image above.
Now it will only be left to plant the plants in rows, leaving a distance of about 20cm between them.
Flower pot
To grow potted hanging tomato The seedling must be planted in a container with holes in its base that has a diameter of at least 30cm (the ideal is 40cm). The substrate to use can be the universal one.
Then just a tutor will have to be placed, put it in full sun and water very often.
Pruning
It is very important prune the plant occasionally. A single specimen produces so many tomatoes that it is very common for more than one branch to break off because it cannot bear the weight. To avoid it, you have to cut some, especially the lower ones, and also the suckers (They are the twigs that come out from the main stem and develop in the middle of this and another branch).
Harvest
Hanging tomatoes You can collect them more or less three months after sowing. See that they are soft but not excessively. Of course, they must have turned bright red.
very useful article. Clear and direct.
I planted some seeds of some 'tomatons' bought in the supermarket in pots and hey, they gave me lots of tomatoes! (I get the impression that I'm hacking a commercial product, hehe)
The downside is that they seem to have a hard time maturing. They stay orange for a long time. Now we are in the middle of August and they are on the terrace with sun all day.
In the end I have harvested a few as they were and I have them hanging from a wire indoors without giving them much light. I don't know if they will finish ripening until they turn red. Other types of tomatoes I have matured very well like this, harvested as soon as I saw their reddish ass and then put in paper bags (for sandwiches, they are funny!) In the dark in a closet. They mature by themselves.
My orange 'tomatons', in the pot it seems that more than maturing they were spoiling, scratching, etc. Perhaps due to irrigation failures, excess water, etc.
Be that as it may, it is a pleasure to be able to have an urban 'garden' in pots. Lettuces are the peel. In a medium / small planter I have FOUR beautiful ones! And carrots, potatoes (awesome how they grow!), Etc.
Thanks for the info and a very good and productive summer.
Thank you very much for telling us about your experience. The truth is that tomato cultivation is simple and very rewarding.
How often do you water them? It may be as you say that there is some problem with the irrigation, but also with the land. I do not know how many plants you have, but if they are few, I recommend you fertilize them with a liquid and natural fertilizer, such as guano. Of course, make sure that the packaging puts something like this: Authorized for organic farming. If it does not put it, it is that it is not organic and therefore it is not natural.
For the next season, before planting, it would be advisable to fertilize the soil with worm castings or cow manure.
very useful article. Clear and direct.
I planted some seeds of some 'tomatons' bought in the supermarket in pots and hey, they gave me lots of tomatoes! (I get the impression that I'm hacking a commercial product, hehe)
The downside is that they seem to have a hard time maturing. They stay orange for a long time. Now we are in the middle of August and they are on the terrace with sun all day.
In the end I have harvested a few as they were and I have them hanging from a wire indoors without giving them much light. I don't know if they will finish ripening until they turn red. Other types of tomatoes I have matured very well like this, harvested as soon as I saw their reddish ass and then put in paper bags (for sandwiches, they are funny!) In the dark in a closet. They mature by themselves.
My orange 'tomatons', in the pot it seems that more than maturing they were spoiling, scratching, etc. Perhaps due to irrigation failures, excess water, etc.
Be that as it may, it is a pleasure to be able to have an urban 'garden' in pots. Lettuces are the peel. In a medium / small planter I have FOUR beautiful ones! And carrots, potatoes (awesome how they grow!), Etc.
Thanks for the info and a very good and productive summer.
Hello Ivan.
Thank you very much for telling us about your experience. The truth is that tomato cultivation is simple and very rewarding.
How often do you water them? It may be as you say that there is some problem with the irrigation, but also with the land. I do not know how many plants you have, but if they are few, I recommend you fertilize them with a liquid and natural fertilizer, such as guano. Of course, make sure that the packaging puts something like this: Authorized for organic farming. If it does not put it, it is that it is not organic and therefore it is not natural.
For the next season, before planting, it would be advisable to fertilize the soil with worm castings or cow manure.
Regards!