step 3 - Planting Sideways

Growing your own tomatoes is becoming an increasingly popular hobby. But although it's a relatively easy hobby, many "first timers" are encountering one or two basic beginner problems. Here are some simple tomato growing tips that can help you get over these frustrating hurdles.

I'm sure you would agree there's nothing like the taste of home grown tomatoes. But how do we grow strong healthy plants that will result in a good crop of fruit? Serious tomato growing enthusiasts use proven techniques, that they have developed over time to help them achieve great, consistent results. If you follow these 6 simple steps you should start to see similar results when you come to harvest your next crop.

Tomatoes love heat and it's possible to preheat the soil before you put your tomato plants in. If you cover the soil in the area you are going use with red or black plastic sheeting for a couple of weeks before, the extra degrees of warmth it creates in the soil will help you get an earlier crop.

Seedlings are usually ready to be planted once they have grown about 6 leaves. In order to help grow healthier plants you should plant them nice and deeply into the soil. Ideally you should plant them deep enough so that you can just see the top 4 leaves. Because tomatoes can grow roots all along the stem of the plant it will create a stronger sturdier root system.

Another simple tip is to dig a small trench in the soil and plant them sideways on. The plant will naturally grow upwards towards the sunlight but you should be very careful not to pierce the root system when inserting a cage or a pole.

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