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How To Plant A Tomato Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Thegoldminer / All my dishes 1 year, 6 months ago A few days ago I ran into a person buying tomato plants. I was describing how to plant a tomato and he did not know this information so here is how to plant a tomato. Click on any pic to enlarge and really see the plant. Prep:60m Servings:8	Thegoldmine
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Prepare the rows

Deep rows

The plant

Remove bottom branch

Make a hole

This deep

Add water

Root bound

A nice massage

In the hole

Use plant food

This much

Spread it around

Mix it in

Smooth it out

Water it

Another root bound

Freedom

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Mulched

No Mulch

Planted Deep

Getting big

Watering

Wire cage

Cage mulched

Tomato row

Watermelon

Japanese eggplant

cucumber

Basil

Still mosit-Final

cukes and tomatoes

Big roma

cukes

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Ingredients

Tomato plants

Tomato and plant food

Good soil (soil is alive with quadtrillions of microbes, dirt is dead stuff)

Water

Fish emulsion

Directions

Rototill or hand dig area.

Make a round ring for plant

This is very important, remove all lower branches from the tomato plant, leaving top three branches, see pics.

Remove plant from container.

The roots are root bound even in peat containers as per pics. Although they say to plant the plant and peat container, the roots as you can see are root bound even in the peat container.

Using your fingers break loose the roots per pics. Now the roots will start growing outwards and the plant will do well.

Now dig a hole deep enough so only two inches of the stem and the top three branches will be exposed.

Pour a couple of cups of water in the hole.

Place plant in hole.

Push dirt in around plant.

Sprinkle a hand full (per pic) on the ground around the plant.

Mix into the soil.

Water the area.

Sprinkle a small amount on the surface. It will dissolve with the next watering.

Apply a think layer of leaves, grass clipping, anything to prevent weed growth and keep the moisture in the soil.

The best tomato cages are made of concrete reinforcing wire. You can buy flat sheets of this wire 4x7 feet for $5.96 at Home Depot. Carefully form a round basket and secure with 5 nylon zip ties. Now you have an indestructible tomato cage.

I added some more pics. They show how the plant looks with heavy mulch and with the mulch. The last pic shows how the mulch kept in the moisture. I pulled the leaves back and you can see the moisture around the plant and how it is dry where there was no mulch.

A couple pics of other veges and the pic with the 1 gallon bucket is to show the current size of the plant. Planted 3 weeks ago and has increase in size from 6 inches to 18 inches. Going to be 100 this week in Sacramento 5-14-08 and the plants are going to go crazy.

The tomato is the only vege I know you can plant like this. Some people do it by laying the plant on its side and covering the stem. The reason to plant the stem deep is roots will grow out from the stem and you have a larger root system, bigger and more tomatoes. My Cherry tomatoes one year grew to a height of 12 feet. Ace tomatoes exceeded 4 lbs, not beefsteak, but 4 lb Ace tomatoes.

Twice a week feed with diluted fish emulsion. Be careful as the plants get so large they attack.

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carmenperez 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Greetings From Puerto Rico
and ty so much for the tips on growing my tomatos
it comes in handy because i realy dint know wthat i was doing but i do have beawtifull plum tomatoe plants growing in pot in my markesina ( garage like area)high humidity in pr makes them grow like weeds for god sake lol and now i will do what you said ty again wish me luck!!

thegoldminer 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Luck. Let me know how it goes. JJ I have Ace, Plum, Early girl, two types of Cherry tomatoes, beef steak, bell peppers, Serrano peppers, slicing and pickling cucumbers, watermelon, cantelope, basil, oregano, thyme and Japanese eggplant. This should be a good year for veges.

rml 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Thank you for the wonderful advice! I Love your posts

peetabear 1 year, 6 months ago said:
You did a great job..pictures are wonderful... good info..

thegoldminer 1 year, 6 months ago said:
By the way, any plant removed from a pot should have its roots disturbed, per the pics above, they love it. JJ.

solanaceae 1 year, 6 months ago said:
I am horribly green with envy!!! We won't be putting plants in the ground for a few weeks ... it's not warm enough here yet!

thegoldminer 1 year, 6 months ago said:
:-( :-( :-( JJ

turlak 1 year, 6 months ago said:
This is the 1st year our tomatoes are looking really good. I will be printing out this post for my husband to read. I didn't know you are supposed to plant them so deep, but now I see that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the info!
~Dawn

raelene1951 1 year, 6 months ago said:
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! This is the best info ever!

jencathen 1 year, 5 months ago said:
Thanks for the information!!

lumpy1 10 months ago said:
Thanks. yippie!, i learned how to cut and paste. dont do 'how to plant a cucumber' though, because seriously, im going to to that one complete with trellis. lumpy

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