(Id give that to garlic.)
Its because we love eating tomatoes so much!
The two biggest considerations when selecting tomato varieties to plant:
How do you like to eat tomatoes?
Not all, but in general.
How tall can your garden handle your tomato plants growing?
Bush or determinatevarieties have a genetic cap on their height.
Vine or indeterminate tomatoesdo not have a predetermined genetic cap on height or lifespan.
Indeed, Ive seen 18 month old vines in greenhouses still producing away.
Theyre still edible, but more vulnerable to disease.
Tomato Starting Tips
Tomato Seeds vs. Tomato Seedlings?
To germinate tomato seeds or to start by planting tomato seedlings?
Its an age old question.
Two weeks til last frost?
Trot over to the farmers markets and get yourself seedlings.
What to look for: nobody flowering, or pinch off the flowers.
Dont worry about leggy plants; you want to bury the plants deep anyway.
(This is only true of tomato seedlings, not peppers, not eggplants…).
Note how different the first leaves out and the first True leaves are.
Transplant your tomato seedlings everytime they are big enough to start touching their neighbors in the next pot over.
The vine will produce new roots out the side and be marvelously healthy and drought resistant in your garden.
PS- do not bother keeping volunteer tomato seedlings.
Those are the offspring of the tomatoes that ripened fast and then fell off the vine and rotted.
Last thing you need is a plant whose fruit ripens (and rots!)
too quick to harvest.
Never heard of them?
Start with Aunt Mollys.
