Planting tomatoes: rich harvest from your own garden

The shopping list

Tomato young plants of different varieties
Planter with 10 liter capacity
High quality potting soil
Horn chips
Long wooden stick and soft coated binding wire
Gloves with good instinct

Planting Tomatoes: 1. Soil and Fertilizer

The bucket for the plants should be at least 10 liters. Uses a good potting soil. Mix a handful of horn shavings while potting. The organic fertilizer supplies the tomatoes to maturity with food.

Plant tomatoes: 2. Support for the plant

The shoots of the tomatoes are brittle and shaky. That is why they need a support from an early age, which gives them support and in which they can just grow up. Uses a soft binding material for fixing.

Plant tomatoes: 3. Eat

So that tomato plants do not proliferate wildly, they have to be "spiked". Each secondary drive is therefore broken out of the leaf axils. The plants should have only one main shoot, on which the fruits can get from all sides much sun.

Plant tomatoes: 4. Fry

Sometimes sprouting impulses are overlooked. If they have pencil thickness, they can only be removed from the leaf axils with scissors. The lightening keeps the plants airy and thus promotes their health.

Plant tomatoes: 5. Tip caps

This is what tomato plants should look like: slim and easy to reach from all sides. From mid-August you cap the top of the main drive. Then no new fruits will grow, but those already existing can mature well.

Expert tip for tomato planting

Marlies Palatini cultivates more than 40 different types of tomatoes (information at www.gaertnereipalatini.de). Their experience: The tomato plants develop most abundantly on a house wall or under a roof overhang.

From now on we plant our tomatoes ourselves!

Why do we plant tomatoes ourselves? Because we have our favorite summer vegetables always fresh to hand! Super Bonus: We know very well that our self-planted tomatoes are not contaminated with any pollutants. So out on the balcony or in the garden, ran to the flowerpots? and plant tomatoes yourself!

When is the best time to plant tomatoes?

The best time to plant tomatoes is middle of March. But that's only true if you have yours Put tomato plants protected can, for example in a small greenhouse or in a cold frame on the windowsill. Otherwise to be on the safe side until May 20thbecause tomatoes do not tolerate frost. On the contrary: Tomato seeds need temperatures around 24 degrees to push the first cotyledons. It is also important that the young plants a lot of light to get.

So if you can not offer a small greenhouse or a sheltered environment for the tender tomato plants, then the tomatoes should be only after the Eisheiligen, ie after 15 May, unprotected outdoors plant out, for example in a bucket on the terrace. Those who do not want to wait so long and speculate on an early harvest, can plant the seedlings in the field at the end of April and they with a foil hood before night frost protect. But then it is important that the cover is removed again in the morning, to prevent fungal infections.

Plant tomatoes protected: how it works? S

If you want to play it safe, wait until the end of May and plant it outside. Ideal is then one warm, sunny place, protected from wind and rainlike a south wall, from which the sun shines well.

As soon as the first pair of leaves form in the greenhouse or in the cold frame after the cotyledons, the Plants are set apart, so they do not stand too close. Gardeners call this process ? Transplanting?, Make sure that you do not hurt the sensitive roots, so that the plants do not immediately go back to you. A spiked staff can be helpful here, but you can also grab a teaspoon or an old ballpoint pen. Be sure to use nutrient-rich soil. The rule of thumb can be: 3 to 5 liters of compost per square meter.

To breed young tomato plants

Then put the small plantlets a bit more shady. You do not have to stand in the full sun for a while now, otherwise you will shoot too fast. But it is important that they are well supplied with nutrients. On Substrate for potted herbs can be the drug of choice here. At the same time you should be sparing while watering. Stop the young tomato plants rather too dry than too wet. So they do not grow too high and form an early flower bud.

Now it is time to preserve patience and water young tomatoes regularly, making sure that they are well supplied with nutrients. Take care that you only water the earth and the roots when you are watering, so that you can not Cabbage or brown rot can train. It is advisable to provide the plants with a protective roof over their heads. On special, beveled tomato house You can buy for example in the garden market. Make sure that the open side is facing away from the weather side when setting up? So best to the east. Alternatively, a raised bed is suitable for small plants. Then you can soon harvest your first own tomatoes and make tomato salad and tomato soup yourself. You will also learn how to cook tomatoes and how to pass tomatoes.