Gardening tips, ideas, and thoughts for the home gardener.
Posted in Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening on Nov 28th, 2009
For most gardeners, establishing tomatoes in the home garden involves purchasing or growing transplants from seed. I personally like using transplants that I purchase. They are easy and ready to go into the ground as soon as they are brought home to my garden. If you have used transplants from your local garden center in [...]
Posted in Gardening Podcasts, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening on Nov 16th, 2009
In this episode of The Gardening Everyday Podcast I cover the basics of fertilizing tomatoes organically. I’ve written an ebook entitled “How To Produce 15-25 Pounds Of Ripe, Juicy Tomatoes PER PLANT – 15 Tips and Secrets Revealed” and in this edition of the podcast I dicuss Tip #9 – All natural, all the [...]
Posted in Garden Prep, Tomatoes on Feb 4th, 2009
When you transplant your tomatoes the root mass is small and confined to a container of some shape and size. It is likely that your plants have not seen a lot of fertilizer since you purchased them. If you grow your own this may be different.
Let’s assume that you purchased your plants from a [...]
Posted in Garden Planning, Tomatoes on Feb 1st, 2009
I haven’t posted in almost two weeks. For that I apologize to my regular readers – all 14 of you.
I have been busy producing a special report on tomato production in the home garden.
I’m very excited to launch my first informational product here on my own blog. Basically, the special report is a collection [...]
Posted in Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening on Jan 18th, 2009
Many enthusiasts will say that tomatoes originated in Italy. In fact, the first historical mention by Matthiolus in 1544 placed it in the region. The truth is the tomato is native to the Equador-Peru region of South America. It evolved from the small, cherry form known as Lycopersicon esculentum var. cerasiforme. The plant eventually made [...]
