Growing media includes, soil, compost, coir, coconut shell, perlite, vermiculite and sponges. Tomatoes can be grown in many different growing media.
There are many different types of media for sowing tomato seeds and it can be great fun trying and comparing them to see which ones work best for you. Seed compost is very good but it does have the disadvantage … Read More
Wouldn’t it be great to have a large greenhouse or polytunnel and grow tomatoes directly in the soil. On the other hand, would the results be better than when growing tomateos in containers? Here is aa article about the benefits … Read More
It’s a busy time of the season when there are a lot of tomato plants to pot into their final position. It’s also expensive if there are so many large pots to fill with new compost. so using old compost … Read More
You say “tomato” I say “tomato”. There are confusions in many areas of life and tomato growing isn’t free from them. One of which is the meaning of compost for tomatoes. Basically there are two types of compost: Multi-purpose compost … Read More
Perlite is one of the best ways to enhance the quality of potting soil and multi-purpose compost – tomato plants love it! It is a volcanic rock material that when heated to around 900 degrees C, expands to thirteen times … Read More
I often mention about keeping the soil for tomatoes well aerated and using foliar feeds (combined with root feeds) to prevent overloading the soil with minerals. However, there is a little more that needs to happen in order to create … Read More
Old soil often contains microscopic worms called Nematodes which can clog-up a plant’s plumbing system. The sun is out, the sky is blue, there’s not a cloud to spoil the view – but you’ve got droopy leaves! You give your … Read More
In this newsletter, we’ll discuss various types of potting compost for tomatoes and whether or not to feed seedlings. How not to kill our seedlings and plants with kindness! Compost – the earth in bags from the garden centre! Where … Read More