How to Grow Tomatoes!

Growing Tomatoes

Most tomatoes are grown in greenhouses in England but there are some excellent varieties that are specifically for growing out. The tomato plant growing requires a temperature of 60 F. In some of our cold, humid summers, especially those who frequent the north, the crops are grown outside often disappointing and can be infected by a downy mildew disease. Without sun, the fruit does not ripen, but without a greenhouse, youcan still grow beautiful, tasty tomatoes with a mini-pole portable homes.

This construction is a simple, tubular metal, which can be fitted together easily and can be easier, if not dismantled in use. The plastic cover fits on the frame and is making a bit 'of warmth and protection when the weather is bad ideal.

If you are handy you can build a similar kind of wooden frame and those with a plastic sheetcover work nearly so well.

tomato plants can be purchased in May or you can bring your own from seed under glass. This allows you to experiment and try some of the most recent or very colorful tomatoes, the seed companies have to offer. Those that want to grow out, you have to be to succeed with the variety of outside growth. Although seeds can be sown out-of-doors is not usually very satisfactory process unless they have shelter and warmth. IfMake sure you buy plants, have hardened good, strong, dark ones are green.

Cultivation

Tomato nothing when the ground easy or difficult, but it must contain a lot of manure. If the tomatoes are growing outside, must be in a warm, protected in a sunny aspect. In April, adding plenty of compost or well rotted manure into the soil.

Sow under glass

The seed can be sown anytime from February to May and should be 2 inchesExcept in trays of seed compost covered with a sheet of glass until germination. Provide as much light as possible, after about 28 days, pot up into 3-inch pot in John Innes potting compost No. 1.

Planting in the greenhouse

In the greenhouse, plants can be grown in border soil or pots of good compost. A popular method of growing these plants in pots is that their land have been removed to place 6-inch deep bed of ashes or coarse sand and gravel. The ash or singleis a large amount of water to keep, so do not bother plants, as they often do not suffer in normal vessels. Add good compost such as John Innes No 3 compost, after all, the pots and plants, young tomato plants. Liquid is applied to the compost to 10 - day intervals since the truss September 1 Plain water is the ash or the base of gravel applied.

Sowing in frames

The planting takes place in April in 3-in. (76mm) pots filled with John Innes seedCompost. Place three seeds, ¼ apart and ¼ inch (6 mm) deep in the center of each plate, these can be submitted until thinned to one per pot later. tomato seeds at temperatures between 59-68 degrees F. germinate (15-20 º C) Keep the pots in the frame until the end of May.

Planting in the Open

In preparation for planting, rake the soil level in fish manure with 10 percent content of potassium salts or a complete fertilizer, 4 or 5 ounces (120g - 150g) per sq ydThe main system is the end of May and early June in the south to north, where the possibility of freezing is more than fact. Disturb the roots as little as possible when planting, make a hole with a trowel and plant the soil with the sod carefully. System so that the tip of the ball about ½ inch below ground level. Study plants and a strong push-4-ft. (120 cm) bamboo canes into the ground beside the plant.

Sow in the Open

Seeds are sown in May,three seeds ½ inch (12 mm) deep in their growth position and then cover with a glass or clear plastic, 5-liter bottle of mineral water is just the tip of the bottle 2/3rds after the bottom was removed. Each suit must be 15 inches (381 millimeters) in successive lines 2 - ½ feet (75 centimeters) away. Then the plants can be thinned to one plant per station if necessary.

General Care

Once the first beam of flowers appear to give a liquid feed, a hundred A10 KaliContent once a week during the season. Watering regularly prevents the skins split. Hold a single stem on each plant from side shoots that appear at the point where the leaves join the main stem. Be sure to remove only the side shoots, taking care not to damage the beginning of flowering truss. The buds are simply stolen, between fingers and thumb-nail, but I think less accidental damage caused when a knife used to do the job. As theThe plants grow, tie the stems of bamboo sticks with a soft, green cotton twine or raffia. Make sure the string or raffia is not too tight so as not to cut the trunk as it grows. The best method is the string or raffia twice around the bamboo then wrap a ribbon around the stem and tie to stick with care. Remove the top inch of the growing point of each plant during the first week of August, growing like plants and prune when the days draw shorter. If the topGrowth is removed, which will then be directed to inflate the fruits already formed, and further development with SAP. Next to remove the side shoots. Do not remove the leaves until they are yellow: they produce the feed SAP developed, it is useful that the fruits to ripen.

Vintage

Remove the fruit as they mature. At the end of the season, if you have green tomatoes still on the plants can be removed and aged at home on a windowsill or can be madedelicious chutney to any rival that can be bought from a supermarket.

Green tomato chutney

2 pounds (0.9 kg) green tomatoes

2 pounds (0.9 kg) tart green apples

2 large onions

1 (0.47lt) pint of cider

1 pound (0.45 kg) sugar cane

½ oz (15g) salt

¼ oz (7.5 g), Szechuan pepper

Juice of 2 lemons

2 chili peppers, chopped

Method

Peel apples and remove skins, putting tomatoes in boiling water, cut allIngredients and mix with sugar and spices. have, add vinegar and cook with the lid on the pan, until thickened ingredients. Cooling, put into hot sterilized jars and seal.