Dave’s Garden: Gardening Tomatoes

I am sure you have tasted store bought tomatoes but have you tasted fresh tomatoes directly from a home garden. In my books there is just no comparison. The supermarket tomato just doesn’t cut it when it comes to flavour.

I kind of forgot about how awesome home grown tomatoes are until my wife and I planted some a couple of years ago and then there was no turning back. We had to keep growing our own but more.

Growing Great Tomatoes

Summer has gone into hybernations now for this year but we are planning now for next year so that we have about 10 times the amount of tomatoes we had last year. The reason…

… we want to be able to share some as that makes us feel great but more than that we want to can some tomatoes.

I eat about a half can of tomatoes a day, sometimes we eat an entire can of tomatoes but I would much prefer to go downstairs and get a bottle of our own tomatoes.

Highlights From Dave’s Garden Tomatoes Video

  • Dave shows a store bought tomato and then explains why it’s not the tomato for you. I have eaten enough store bought ones to know I agree whole heartedly with Dave.
  • Don’t expect to throw tomato seeds on the ground and have a great crop of tomatoes.
  • Dave covers how to start your tomatoes from seed and tells us when we should start them. This is where I messed up two years and ended planting everything about a month later than I should have.
  • Know your last frost date, ours is usually about June 10th, and then go back about 6 to 8 weeks before that date to plant your tomato seeds.

Learning how to grow from seeds is great and saves us a lot of money each year.

See more great videos on my Backyard Gardening YouTube Channel.

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