Container Gardening Tips For GrowingTomatoes

Before we owned our own property my wife and I would talk about having our own vegetable garden however each place we rented didn’t allow us to dig a garden. Then one day a gardening friend suggested we give container gardening a try. This article is about how we started growing tomatoes in our own little container garden.

We said we would like to grow lots of tomatoes and they are one of our favourite things to each in our house. She told us they liked lots of sun so we could plant our container garden in a spot that gets a lot of direct sun.

Preparing To Plant Our First Tomato Container Garden

It actually was pretty easy getting our container garden started. That’s not saying we didn’t make any mistakes because we made a few, although nothing that discouraged us enough to make us give up. We’ve done better each year since.

Step One: Containers Have To Be Large Enough To Allow Plants To Grow Roots

We bought containers for our vegetable garden but not all were large enough for the tomatoes and they grew. They soon started suffering from lack of water and then they stopped growing. We went back to the nursery and picked up some bigger pots and transplanted them. They survived and we learned am easy lesson.

Step Two: Tomatoes Will Thank You For Good Drainage

Most vegetables don’t like their roots to be drowned and therefore require good drainage. We did this correctly for the most part but one container had holes in the bottom that just plugged up and we did drown one of our plants. I fixed the drainage holes using a little screwdriver to break the rough edges in the holes and problem solved.

Step Three: Locate Your Containers So They Get Lots of Sunlight

Find the best location for your container garden. Keep in mind if you keep the containers small enough yet large enough for them to survive you will be able to move locations of your container garden to take advantage of the sun.

Step Four: Give Your Tomatoes All The Support They Need

I was trying to be funny with that heading but seriously your tomatoes are going to need some strong support to keep the plant from breaking as it gets bigger. To do this simple make or buy a wire cage to put around the plant while it’s young and that will allow it to grow tall and healthy.

Our gardener friend sure came in handy while we were first growing our tomatoes. We could call and ask questions any time we had them and got great answers, helping us to over come problems before it was too late.

The Growing Tomatoes is an ebook worth owning if you don’t have gardening friends you can ask questions to when you need help now.

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