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Growing Tomatoes in Your Own Backyard Would you like to have fresh, tasty and beautiful tomatoes ripening in your own yard, and be able to pick and eat them right off the vine for 6 months each year? That’s what this site is all about! We’ll tell you how to have a great tomato garden in any soil – even without amending the soil AT ALL! Or, if you have no soil, we’ll show you how to grow in containers with the same results. And by following the principles and procedures we teach, you’ll be able to eat your own tomatoes earlier in the Spring, and keep them producing for many weeks after your neighbors’ plants give up and quit. Let’s get started! First, decide the varieties you want to grow. Beefsteak-type tomatoes are large and juicy, and are great on sandwiches and such. However most of them grow on indeterminate plants, which take a lot of space, unless you grow them vertically. I highly recommend you look for Better Boy and Big Beef if this type suits you. And vertical-growing plants will give you a much larger harvest, over a much longer time, in the same space as the short patio varieties, so we recommend you grow vertically. Small tomatoes include cherry and grape varieties. The new grape tomatoes have strong skins, so they last a long time in your fruit bowl, and they taste great. They are also indeterminate and need to be grown vertically. Good varieties that grow on determinate, or short plants, include Celebrity, some cherry’s, and many Roma’s. Growing your own seedlings assures you get the varieties you want, and if you learn to do it well, you’ll have sturdy, healthy, disease-free plants that will give you a big head-start. Good articles for tips on growing your own seedlings can be found at www.foodforeveryone.org/faqs. If you have some soil in a location with direct sunlight all day long, that’s the easiest way to grow your tomatoes. We call that soil-bed or Grow-Bed gardening, and excellent step-by-step procedures for doing it are found at www.foodforeveryone.org in the Learn section. The free ebook will guide you every step of the way. Is a patio, porch, or driveway the only sunny place you
have in your yard? No problem!
Container gardening can give you just as nice, healthy, and tasty
tomatoes as growing in the dirt. And
containers of any size will work! |