VIDEO: Planting tomatoes in a pot

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Pull tomatoes from seeds

It is best to order the seeds for your tomatoes in February. The sowing takes place at the end of February. Fill a seed tray with a transparent lid or place the tomato seeds in a pot. Cover it with some soil (about five millimeters) and water it thoroughly.

At 18 to 25 degrees Celsius, the first leaves will grow after about ten days. To get fresh air, you should open the cover briefly every day. If larger leaves can be seen, prick out the plants, that is, you separate them.

With the handle of a spoon, carefully lift the root out of the earth and place the tomato plant in a pot nine centimeters in diameter. In mid-May, the plants can move from the pot to the bed or the tomatoes can stay on the windowsill or balcony.

The right location for your tomatoes 

  • Sun: Warm and sunny, for example on a south wall.
  • Rain: Protected from wind and rain, for example under a roof overhang.
  • Glasshouse: Cover if a rainproof location is not possible.
  • Soil: nutrient-rich, four liters compost per square meter.
  • Plant spacing: 60 cm, when planting in double rows 100 cm, in the row 40 cm.
  • Potted tomatoes: For growing in pots, use planters or tubs that allow space.
  • Depth: Dig the planting hole so that the root ball of the tomatoes is 5 cm below the ground, even with plants in pots.
  • Combination: Radishes, cabbage and spinach are good neighbors for tomatoes; Peas and fennel, on the other hand, are not.
  • Change: Change the bed every year to prevent pests.

Plant the vegetables in pots or beds

  1. Offer space. It is important that the tomato plants have enough space to spread their roots. Therefore, choose a plant pot that is large enough or at least a 10 liter bucket.
    Take a large saucepan.
    Take a large saucepan. © Andrea Nittel-Neubert
  2. Fill in soil. Fill the jar with normal Garden soil about three quarters full. Alternatively, you can use extra tomato soil from the gardener.
    Fill in soil.
    Fill in soil. © Andrea Nittel-Neubert
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  4. Add compost. In the middle, where the tomatoes will later be planted, you should work fresh compost soil (about two scoops). Use the small shovel to make a hole in the center of the soil in the pot and fill it with compost.
    Add compost.
    Add compost. © Andrea Nittel-Neubert
  5. To water. Now pour water into it with the watering can so that the soil is well moist.
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    © Andrea Nittel-Neubert
  6. Insert plants. Now put the tomato plants in and cover the hole with soil. The stem should be a good five to eight centimeters in the ground.
    Insert the plant.
    Insert the plant. © Andrea Nittel-Neubert
  7. Remove dead leaves. Leaves that are already brown at the lower end of the stem can be removed by hand.
    Remove dead leaves.
    Remove dead leaves. © Andrea Nittel-Neubert

If you buy small plants at a hardware store, they can stay in the pot. Only when they are 30 centimeters high should they be moved to the bed or repotted.

Caring for the tomato plants

  • Watering: Daily, only moisten the roots and the soil in the pot, the soil must not dry out completely.
  • fertilizer: Fertilize tomatoes every four weeks with liquid fertilizer or granular fertilizer.
  • Pruning: Cut off the side shoots as they appear, preferably in the morning.
  • Overturning: Stabilize tall plants with stakes in the pot.
  • Remove leaves: Cut the leaves at the bottom of the tomato stem to prevent brown rot on the plants.

Harvest fruits from the plants

What should you pay attention to when harvesting tomatoes in a pot? The fruits are usually ripe at the beginning of July. Do not pick the tomatoes from the plants in the pot until they can be easily detached. Break this off with the handle. Usually not all fruiting bodies are ripe at the same time, so you can harvest them one after the other.

If the tomatoes were picked too early, place the fruit on the windowsill in the sun to ripen. Harvest before the first night frosts. Do not eat green fruits. These still contain solanine, which can cause headaches.

Do not store the red vitamin bombs in the refrigerator. Here they lose their taste. A basket or bowl in which the fruits are dry and not stacked on top of each other are ideal. fruit shouldn't be around. The tomatoes give off a substance that wilts other fruits more quickly.

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