HOW WE TRANSPLANTED TOMATOES TODAY 🍅🍅
We had a little over 40 tomato plants that had been begging for about a week to be transplanted. Today was the day they got their wish.
We have quite a few varieties of tomatoes we are attempting to grow. Cherokee Purple, Celebrity, Big Boy, Roma, cherry tomato, Yellow Boys and Marigolds. Let's see how we planted some of them.
Dig a hole three to four times larger than the transplant. Digging a hole that big helps loosen up the soil so the transplant can spread its roots easier. Then I put a tomato cage over the hole.
When you initially pull your transplant out of the seed tray the roots will be a little compact. Like in the picture above.
Rough up the outside of the root ball with your fingers. This will give the roots a head start on branching out into the loose soil you just dug for it. It'll also help the plant not become root bound.
Insert the transplant in the freshly dug soil. Don't be afraid to cover up some of the stem of the tomato plant. The tomato is a vine and will root from its stem. This will just give the tomato plant a better base.
Planted the tomatoes in these pictures in a big lasagna Garden Style bed. I made the bed last year by laying cardboard on the very bottom over the grass. Then hay, leaves, leaf mold and wood chips.
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I set up my water lines for my tomatoes today, they already have flowers and they are getting big. Big enough that I better get cages around them soon, lest they get broken as I attempt to slide a cage over a maturing plant.