When to plant tomatoes?

Plant with ripe tomato

Tomatoes are delicious, right? They are cleaned well with water, cut in half, add a little oil and a pinch of sugar ... and eat. That, or it's sliced ​​and put on toast for dinner. They are very, very healthy, and the best thing is that its cultivation is really simple.

If you sow the seeds one day, you will know that you will surely be able to reap the fruits of your labor after about three months. But of course, When to plant tomatoes? You have to do it at the right time to get the best harvests, so to start the season on the right foot, don't stop reading 🙂.

Tomatoes in pots

In nurseries and garden stores we can find tomato seeds and seedlings. Depending on the rush we have, we can buy one or the other. Let's see how to proceed in each case:

Planting tomatoes

To sow the tomato seeds do the following:

  1. The first thing to do is prepare the seedbed in early spring. As they are fast-growing plants, I advise using a seedling tray, which we will fill with universal growing substrate that contains perlite.
  2. Next, we will place a maximum of two seeds in each alveolus, slightly separated from each other.
  3. Later, we will cover them with a thin layer of substrate.
  4. To finish, we will place the seedling tray in another plastic tray (without holes), and we will fill the latter with water.

The seeds will germinate after three to seven days. We can move them to their final place as soon as they measure ten centimeters.

Tomato plantation

If we choose to buy tomato seedlings, We must pass them to pots or to the garden as soon as we acquire them. These plants will develop just as well whether they are in containers or in the garden, but, yes, in both cases we must make sure that they are at least 40cm to grow, and a tutor.

Placing a cane as a tutor is very important, since as it grows it will need it to prevent the stems from falling or bending due to the weight of the tomatoes.

Tomato plants

Thus, in a very short time we will be able to harvest delicious tomatoes.


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