Tomato Plug Plants

Tomato plug plants – the quick and easy way to grow your own tomatoes this season - just pop them into a pot of potting or multi purpose compost.

Tomato plug plants are best bought in April – May and established under cover or indoors in pots before planting out in grow bags and containers after the last frost in your area.

The Benefits of Plug Plants

Save time – tomato plug plants are several weeks closer to producing tomatoes than seeds.
Save money – no seeds, propagator or seed compost to buy.
Healthy plants produce a better crop – plug plants are grown in ideal conditions.
Plug Plants enable you to start when the weather is warmer.
The cut off point for ordering plug plants is around the end of May.

The easiest and quickest way to grow tomatoes is to start with tomato plug plants. Small plants that have already been grown to a manageable size and perfect for potting into 3.5 inch 9cm pots.

These plants are started in nursery conditions with all the care and attention that you would give to your own seedlings, but without the fuss.

Tumbling Tom plants are available too. These are cherry

size bush varieties and great for containers. They come in both red and yellow – fabulous in salads.

Last season I grew both and was surprised at the difference in taste between the two … the red are sweet and the yellow have a slightly more complex flavour – a taste for the connoisseur.

Cherry/bush tomatoes are among the easiest to grow because they have less growing to do – a great choice for large pots, containers and hanging baskets. Tumbling Tom Red (above).

Sungold, a tall variety is one of the sweetest cherry tomatoes available and once you’ve tasted them they could be one of your favourites too!

There are also the great favourites like Moneymaker, Alicante and Golden Sunrise available and if you fancy a tall cherry variety, why not try something different like Black Cherry – they taste great and a real talking point when you serve up a summer salad!

A few tips…

Keep them indoors overnight until after last frost date.
Keep their leaves dry.
Don’t over-water, keep soil just slightly damp.
No need to feed if they are planted in new, good quality potting compost.
No more worries about your seeds germinating or being attacked by fungal disease (damping off), tomato plug plants are a very useful addition for the tomato grower.