How to Grow Tomatoes From Seed

It's pretty easy going to the local garden centre, picking up a tomato plant and sticking it the ground (well it's not that simple but you get my point, I hope). What I'm trying to say is that you require a lot more skill to grow tomatoes from seed.

Below is how you can take your tomato growing to the next level.

First of all, let's look at what you will need when it comes to growing your tomatoes from seed. You won't need anything that special, but I thought it would help you to have a small list of everything you need to take your tomato seeds, from seeds to plants to fruits.

• A packet of Tomato seeds - Don't go for the usual boring seed packets. You want to pick some quirky varieties of seeds just so you can have something different to try, something you can't go and buy in the supermarket.
• Vermiculite - Just a handful or two. It is a great way to help the growth of your tomatoes so try and use it.
• 7.5 Diameter Pot - Or you could go for a smaller one. This is where you're going to be sowing the seeds for your tomatoes.
• Enough compost - You will need enough compost to almost fill the pot you plant to use.
• Labels - You certainly need to have labels at the ready so you can mark up when they were sown and what varieties they are.

That'll do I think... Let's get on with growing them! 

1. Fill your pot with compost, leaving around 4cm around the rim of the pot.
2. Pretty much every seed will germinate, so scatter your tomato seeds evenly but thinly so you don't have to thin them out later. In a 7.5cm pot, you won't want more than three seeds. Seriously THREE!
3. Cover with a thin layer of the Vermiculite. Seriously, it needs to be really thin, just enough to cover the seeds.
4. Then water, water them more than you think you'd need to water them.
5. Place them on a windowsill or by a glass door. You basically want them to be inside away from the weather but they need lots of sunlight.
6. Once the plants are around 5cm in height and have at least 3 leaves, you can transplant them to bigger pots or into the ground outside.
7. When any risk of frost has passed, plant your tomatoes in the ground. You them to be so deep that only 2cm of the plant is poking out. It will look like they're too deep, but the stem of the plant will produce more roots and will create a brilliant and strong root system.
8. Water and let it do it's thing.

8 steps in answer to How to Grow Tomatoes from Seed. It's not the easiest thing to do especially when you don't have a clue what you're doing. But that description should give you a rough idea of what to do. Growing Tomatoes is incredibly rewarding so make sure you do it! You can grow terrific varieties of tomatoes that visitors, family and friends won't have ever seen before.

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