If you are starting your first tomato garden, or are an old pro at it, there are always tips that can make your enterprise easier, and more successful. Following are 5 tomato growing tips that I found make the greatest difference in the health of your plants.

First, when buying your tomato plants, look for straight sturdy stems, dark leaves and plants that have not begun to flower or fruit. Be certain to let you plants harden off before you put them in the ground. Hardening them off will keep from shocking the plants when you transplant them. Make sure the threat of frost is past before setting your tomatoes out.

When planting your tomatoes, it is important to bury them deeply. Since tomatoes will grow roots all along their stem, you can plant them in a trench horizontally, or bury them up to the top four leaves. The extra roots that will grow will make your tomato stronger.

Having a stake for your tomatoes to grow on is very important. Tomatoes are vines and do not grow upright. If the vines are laying on the ground it will make them more prone to disease and insect attacks. Do not skimp on the stakes, as your plants will get tall and heavy. Put the stakes in the ground at the same time you plant to avoid damaging the roots.

Maintenance of your tomato plants is critical. Having a consistent watering schedule will help avoid blossom drop and having the fruit split. As your tomato fruit begins to ripen you can reduce the amount you are watering. By reducing your watering at the fruiting stage your tomatoes will concentrate sugars in the fruit. Don’t hold back to much on the water though because the plant will stress and wilt. Stressing the plant can lead the tomato to drop its blossoms and possibly it’s fruit.

Prune off any suckers that grow between the branches. Suckers use energy that could be going into growing a bigger plant. You can also remove some of the leaves, this will help the fruit to ripen by allowing more sunshine to reach it. Just make sure that you don’t remove to many leaves. The leaves are what provide sugars for the roots and fruit, if you remove to many your tomatoes will suffer.

If you love tomatoes, caring and nurturing your plants will give you higher yields of fruit and make your tomato garden the envy of the neighborhood! These are just a few tomato growing tips I hope will help you have your best tomato crop ever.

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