Lets grow tomatoes

Yes I know, you can buy your tomato plant out in your favorite nursery,but why should you buy a tomato plant if can  also buy a tomato?

So this tutorial on how I grow tomato plants from seeds is for those of you that want to do that on your own and enjoy the fruits of your work (in that case it will be tomatoes -vegetable). It will amaze you how easy it is to grow tomatoes plants (or every other vegetable plant from seeds)! You can buy on ebay or amazon (or the local nursery) a pack of tomatoes seeds and off you go, lets plant our tomatoes! Not so fasr, there are some steps you’ll have to keep in order to make them look and grow good, so lets get going !

What you’ll need:

1. A pack of tomatoes seeds (about 3$ almost everywhere).
2. Planting glasses – I use in this tutorial small disposable cups (a set of 50 wine tasting cups will be another 2$).
3. Some planting soil. That will be better than noramal soil, as it lets the new roots to grow easily.

Preparations and plating:

1. Fill the disposable cups with some soil.
2. Water the cup and the soil in it until it is soken wet (about 3/4 the size of your planting cup).
3. Dig a small hole in the soil, about 1 cm deep.
4. Put in two seeds, that will grow your growing tomato seeds success rate.

General care:

1. Until the the seeds don’t come out, you can keep the planting cups in the shadow or in a place with no direct sun (you can even store your tomato plants in house).
2. The water in the cup will be enough for about 4-6 days if you use planting soil.
3. If you see the soil in one of the planting cups gets to dry,gently add some water to the cup.
4. After about 6-10 days you’ll start to see your little tomato plants go out and start to grow (if its your first time, you are going to get very exited!!!).
5. Keep leting your young tomato plants more water.
6. Try to water them with a hand sprinkler – that will harm them the less, but a funnel will to the work too.
7. Keep reading for what to do next after three weeks, when your tomatoes plants from seeds get about 7-10 cm high.

What next?

1. Now its time for the big decisions.
2. You can plant them in your garden.
3. You can (that will be better) plant them in a bigger planting cup. That will make them stronger and when you’ll plant them in your garden, they will have much better and developed roots system.

Some numbers:

It will take you about a month to have tomato plants ready to use from seeds.

You need 6-8 tomato plants to have a fresh tomato every day!

About 1/2 litter of water a day per tomato plant when it is still small.

A big tomato plant will take a bout 1 litter of water per day , musher cheaper than buying them at the local market.

If you’ll hold the tomato wine in your hand you’ll get a fresh smell, you have to try it!!!

 

There are many upside-down containers available on the market, as a matter of fact you might find this link at amazon.com useful (link). But this isn’t the case in that tutorial, this time I actually what to show you how to use some of your home waste to generate a really easy and simple tomato upside down growing container.

All you’ll need for this project are those handy ingredients:

1. A plastic bottle. Any type of bottle will do, I even think about doing it using a milk carton.
2. A piece of wire. Here I used a piece of wire to be the container holder, but you can actually use any type of plastic string that you think will hold the container.
3. A tomatoes plant. You could read more about tomatoes plants the east way at my post about growing tomatoes plants from seeds.

Now let’s go and do it!

Preparing the bottle to become a tomato plat container:

1. Cut the bottom of the bottle with a sharp knife. Try to cut a thin piece of the bottle as you can, so you’ll still have a big size tomato container, so don’t cut the bottle in its middle, but cut it at its end. Keep in mind that the more bottle you have- the bigger tomato container you have, the bigger the tomato plant will get, as you leave a lot of space for its roots to develop.
2. Drill holes in the bottom side of the bottle (the small piece that you’ve just cut of the bottle) and drill two holes at the bottom part of your tomato container, where you’ll put the hanging wire/string. You can use a good nail for that propose, I used a hot nail to drill those holes (just be careful!!!).

 

 

 

Putting the tomato plant in the container:

1. Hold the container carefully while its small hole if face down.
2. Put the tomato plant into the bottle and carefully let the tomato plat stem to  get out of the bottle’s small side.
3. Hold the container upside-down and fill your tomato container with good soil mix (you can buy it in some stores).The better soil you put in your now tomato upside-down container the better chance your tomato plant will grow into a big fruity tomato bush.

Closing you upside-down tomato container:

1. While still holding your container upside down (his natural way from now on), put the small bottle cap you cut off before into the bottle.
2. If it doesn’t fits well cut a small cleft of one of the cap’s sides to “help” it fit in.
3. Put the bottom cap in and close it firmly.
4. Attach the wire handle to your upside- down tomato container and here you go, you have a great upside-down tomato container!!!