Have your experiences with growing tomatoes made you think that you and your surroundings made all efforts taken destined to failure? Well, fear not, as this these tomato growing tips will show you the important steps needed to grow an abundant amount of juicy, delcious tomato fruits. No more yellowish, nasty looking tomato leaves or giant green tomato trees that never fruit.

1. Choose the correct variety. For beginning tomato growers, this is the most underrated part of growing tomatoes. Take the lesson learned by me when I first started growing tomatoes. During my very first season, I got attracted to the cheap, $1.99 for 6 plants sold at the local Kmart. I got a whole bunch of what later turned out to be regular beefsteak tomatoes and planted them. The plants grew huge, thanks to all the efforts I put into making the growing conditions right. Unfortunately, they only flowered and fruited once, and never again because the season was over by then. Well, so much for the legendary 25 plus pounds of fruit per plant I was supposed to get. See, I live in the Northeast, where cooler climates is more prevalent. So what’s the lesson learned? Take the time to find out which varieties thrive at your location first! And don’t be cheap, because all the time and effort you spend tending the plants are worth a lot more than a few more measly dollars you have to play for superior varieties.

2. When transplanting tomato plants into their final destinations, whether it be a container or their alloted gardening space, bury them DEEP. Of all the tomato growing tips here, this one is the simplest to do and will affect your eventual results greatly. For deep burial, carefully pinch off all except for the top one or two pairs of leaves (depending on how long your stem is), and bury the entire stem into teh ground. For a correctly buried plant, the leaves should just be an inch or two above the ground. Why do you do this? Because roots will form along the stem, giving your tomatoes an insane root structure, making them more superior in general.

3. Fertilize your tomato plants regularly. Fertilization is often overlooked. A lot of “organic” growers thinks that fertilization is overrated, but the soil conditions for each individual gardeners vary. Some may be lucky enough to have inherited nutrient rich soil ready to give life to anything put in it, while others may have wounded up with toxic wasteland… okay that’s a little too extreme, but you get the point. And then there’s the debate of whether to use organic fertilizers like Alfalfa pellets and fish extract, or something like MiracleGro. So which one should you use? Organic fertilizers of course. Doesn’t the word “organic” stimulate happiness from within you? A lot of gardeners and consumers also think that organically grown products are a whole lot tastier. That’s really too bad, cause I use mostly MiracleGro, because I can’t afford to buy extravagant organic fertilizers.

Does it really matter other than taste? THe answer is: yes, it does. But no in terms of health hazards and stuff like that. Organic fertilizers and Miraclegro all have more or less the same chemical ingredients that are used in the same fashion by plants. But while organic fertilizers fosters organic soil activity that wil act to enrich the soil in the mere furture, chemical fertilizers add salt (gradually) to your land. So when in doubt, go with organic.

But whatever fertilizer you do end up using, be sure to use it regularly, like say once every two weeks. And there you have it, the three most crucial tomato growing tips every gardeners (growing tomatoes) should know. Have fun and happy harvest!