Tomato plant sales are gearing up all across the country. Whether you visit a TomatoMania event, or a local nursery, it's clear that tomato fever is running rampant. In most warm climates, it's time to put them in the ground (while coastal and cool climate folks try to restrain themselves a little longer). Here are some helpful hints for planting tomatoes whenever you get around to doing it.
A question came in this week to Ask Gardenerd:
"I was cycling in Silverlake and saw your garden you've setup for a greyish building! It looked great! I was especially intrigued by the interesting bean & tomato trellises you have. I
know this is technically "consulting", but where can I get my hands on some of those for my garden?"
You must mean the Dream Center Garden that I've been working on for over a year now. We
planted 24 tomatoes and nearly 100 peas in just ...
There seems to be a theme this week about seed-starting: I have tried to grow vegetable plants from seed indoors, then plant them outdoors and usually end up with a small sprout then they die and I never even get to introduce them to the great outdoors. Do you have any sure fire ways to make sure seeds sprout?
They were fending for themselves and getting taller every day. Critical Mass was about to be reached and it couldn't wait any
longer. My tomatoes needed support. They were having a breakdown - or a "tip sideways" so to speak. So I set out to build new cages for my leaning tower of tomatoes at
home this weekend.
For some of you, this might look really familiar, as I talk about the "How-To" of my tomato cages in Christy's Top 5 Organic Gardening Tips, which you can get when you sign up on the
Gardenerd website. For this project, I needed cages that were ...
When asked, "What is your greatest gardening challenge?", someone wrote in recently: "Getting started! Right now, gardening is ALL THEORY and it's been over 10 years since I've even had a houseplant... At some point I'd like to try tomatoes in a container... because fresh tomatoes on a hot summer day have to got to be one of God's first gifts... YUMMY!" I can't think of a better way to start small-scale gardening than with tomatoes in a container. They grow…