Are you harvesting tons of tomatoes or dealing with endless diseases? Tomatoes are the top home garden crop for a reason, but they do have some trouble areas. Learn how to keep your tomatoes growing well!
About Growing Tomatoes
Tomato plants are tender warm-season crops that love the sun and cannot bear frost. It’s important not to put plants in the ground too early. In most regions, the soil is not warm enough to plant tomatoes outdoors until late spring and early summer except in zone 10, where they are a fall and winter crop.
Tomatoes take 60 days to more than 100 days to harvest, depending on the variety (see more about varieties below). Due to their relatively long growing season requirements (and late planting date), most gardeners plant small “starter plants” or transplants instead of seeds after the weather has warmed up in spring. Many gardeners purchase their transplants at a garden center or nursery but you can certainly grow you own from seed indoors.
HARVESTING
•Leave garden tomatoes on the vine as long as possible.
•Harvest tomatoes when they are firm and very red, regardless of size, with perhaps some yellow remaining around the stem. Harvest tomatoes of other colors (orange, yellow, purple, or another rainbow shade) when they turn the correct color.
•If temperatures start to drop and your tomatoes aren’t ripening, use one of these methods:
1.Pull up the entire plant, brush off dirt, remove foliage, and hang the plant upside down in a basement or garage.
2.Place mature, pale green tomatoes stem up, in a paper bag and loosely seal it. Or wrap them in newspaper and place in a cardboard box. Store in a cool (55°F to 70°F), dark place. Cooler temperatures slow ripening; warmth speeds it. Check weekly and remove soft, spotted, diseased, or ripe fruit.
•Never place tomatoes on a sunny windowsill to ripen. They may rot before they are ripe!
•You can harvest seeds from some tomato varieties.
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