The Best Tomato Growing Tips and Checklist

Everyone wants to know what are the best tips for growing tomatoes. People are always interested in answers to questions like what secret tomato fertilizer to use, how to get the biggest tomatoes, and how to get the most tomatoes on a plant. Acquiring the tips of the trade not only make you a better gardener, they may give that little bit of secret knowledge you didn't already know, the one that makes you say "A-HA," the one that makes this year's tomato harvest the best ever. Tomato growing tips are something that pass around like gossip, and every tomato gardener just wants to know them.

Well, lucky for you these tomato tips are really just information on how to give a tomato plant what it needs. I've been doing this for a long time and compiled a lot of information on how to grow tomatoes efficiently each year, from starting the seed inside right down to trying to extend my tomato harvest in the fall. That's what I'm giving you here.

But, if you've read more than one page on this gardening website, you know that I like to comb the ends of the earth looking for gardening information, and so my posts aren't always concise. Instead they are rather long. Sometimes they have to be to convey the amount of information that a gardener needs to know about a topic.

The other day I received an email from a website patron that read like this:

Dear Early Gardener,

You write too much. Sometimes I wish you'd just get to the point. Please, PLEASE, just tell me what I need to know and leave out the rest.

Sincerely,

Your Spouse

In the interest of giving our audience what they want and keeping them happy, here's my list of point form tomato growing tips. I've arranged them by topic because once again, there are a lot of tips for growing tomatoes out there. Feel free to print them off and use them as sort of a gardening checklist when planting your tomato plants this year. These lists should quickly give you reference to what you need to know for each topic related to growing tomatoes. If you have additions or changes, please email them to me.

Thanks to the Gardening Tips website for allowing me to borrow their format and some of their good ideas.

Tomato seedling tips - seedlings require special care, and you'll find the most important tips for growing tomato seedlings, seed starting, fertilizing, hardening off and transplanting.