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My mom and grandparents always had good luck when growing large tomatoes. Having tasty, garden fresh tomatoes to eat at the end of each summer and early fall was a real treat for us. I didn’t always love the taste, but the extras would usually be canned at home by my own mom. While I really don’t like stewed tomatoes, I’m always up for eating a good tomato that is fresh. Whether you like them fresh, stewed or both, growing tomatoes is so easy almost anyone can do it.

You have two options to begin growing good tomatoes, either using the starter plants which most people enjoy or starting to grow them from seed early inside your home. Growing from seed may be rewarding, but it is a difficult way to go about it and choosing to use starter plants instead would be much easier. For correct growth, the tomatoes should not be transplanted to outdoors until they are the right size. Transplanting these plants is easy, just make sure that they have enough space for themselves wherever you put them. A tomato plant will require room to spread out and collect lots of sunlight.

It’s nice but not necessary to have a big garden for growing large tomatoes; a window box works just fine for that purpose. This might mean only planting one or two plants, but they can still produce a good number of tomatoes for personal use. Growing good tomatoes requires your watchful care. When the tomato plant begins to droop because of its weight, it must be staked up. If you want to buy a round wire frame from a garden store you can, but it works just as well to put a stake or fence next to the plant. Tomatoes will stay off the ground this way.

Only use a trustworthy fertilizer in your garden, since it will be largely responsible for the health of your plants and will aid in growing large tomatoes. Follow two gardening rules of thumb with your tomato plants and keep them well-watered and in a weed-free area. Though some gardeners like to let their tomatoes ripen on the vine, you can pick yours before they are a juicy red color. Leave unripe tomatoes out in the open to continue to ripen. A ripe tomato will taste best when stored in a place that is dry and not too cold. You can draw out your fresh tomato season by harvesting some tomatoes that are still green and keeping them in paper bags in your basement or cellar. Done this way, they will last well for eight to 12 weeks; simply take them out and set them on the window ledge to get ripe during the autumn months.

To learn more about growing large tomatoes, visit http://www.backyard-garden-and-patio.com/growinglargetomatoes.html

- Lee Dobbins

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