Growing Large Tomatoes

As a child, growing large tomatoes was a family undertaking that was both fun and delicious. Late summer and early fall at our house always brought the addition of fresh, mouth-watering tomatoes to our dinner table. Most years, the leftovers would be canned by my mother, though I wasn't particularly fond of the taste. Stewed tomatoes are not really to my liking, but I really do love a good tomato when it’s fresh and tasty.

Whether you like them fresh, stewed or both, growing good tomatoes is so easy almost anyone can do it! If you are ambitious, you can start growing tomatoes from seed indoors well before summer. This can be very rewarding but it is also a lot of work and I find that using the starter plants that you can get at the local nursery just as much fun. No matter which way you go, you’ll want to be sure that your tomato plants have some leaves and are a decent height before you plant them in the garden. They are easy to transplant, but make sure that they have plenty of space between plants because growing tomatoes need lots of room to spread out as well as sufficient sunlight.

It's nice but not necessary to have a big garden for growing large tomatoes; you can grow them in a container or even a window box. You can even try growing good tomatoes in with your annuals in the flower garden! Of courses, you won’t be able to grow as many, but one or two plants can produce a lot of tomatoes for your family to eat.

Whether you grow them in the ground or a planter, growing tomatoes requires a gardener's careful supervision. As tomato plants grow bigger, stakes will be necessary to keep them upright. You can buy specially made round wire frames at a gardening store, or else you could pitch a stake or fence beside your tomato plant to hold it up. This will keep the branches from breaking and keep your precious tomatoes off the ground where they will be prone to rot and bugs.

Fertilizer is important because it protects your tomato plants from illness and helps you in growing large tomatoes, so make sure to find a quality brand. Just like most other plants, you need to keep their area weeded and watered. Although some people prefer to let tomatoes fully ripen on the vine, you can pick them while they are still green if you want. Then simply take them inside and let them ripen on your windowsill, or put them in a paper bag and store them in your basement for use later on in the fall. Tomatoes kept in this way will stay green for months and then you can take them out when the plants have died off and ripen them in your window, thus extending your season for good fresh tomatoes.

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