tomatoe seeds

helen81_2

Hi everyone,

Ive had a quick search but can't find anything that answers my question so had to post.

Ive got a packet of tomatoe seeds but there are no instructions on the back of the packet as they were a freebie with a tesco mag....ive never in my life grown or attempted to grow anything but cress lol, ....please can someone tell me how to plant them? I know they have to go on a windowsill at first but can they go in any old container...how deep to plant them and do they need watering alot?

Im so lokking forward to planting them..and hoping to get some yummy toms from them

Helen x

FunkyFairy

Hi,

Just plant them in small pots i used the type muchrooms, tomatoes come in.

Push them into the soil they dont need to be deep.

Water everyday and a shoot should apear in a week or so.

When the plant is about 3 inch tall pot onto a grow bag, 3 plants to each bag.

wigginsmum

I'd say it's too late in the year to do them this year. I'd start them off in a seed tray indoors next March, and transplant them to individual small pots once they are an inch or so tall. Keep them under cover until mid/end May until the frost risk is past, then plant out individually in larger pots; mine are in pots 18 inches across. You can also use growbags (2 plants per bag).

My tomato plants are now about 2 feet tall and are forming little green tomatoes; I've just repotted them and the rootball is a good 9 inches deep. They're growing happily on the patio. I water them once a week with diluted liquid tomato feed, but when the weather was really hot I was giving them plain water every day.

If you have a look on the Thompson & Morgan site at the tomato seeds in the catalogue, they display sowing/planting guidelines.

http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en