Here is how you can grow your own tomato plant from seed:

First of all, if you are very new to gardening, I would recommend buying a tomato plant from a nursery and skip the seed part. This will allow you to harvest and learn how to grow on a developed plant. As you get more experienced, then go from seed. Remember, it’s all about learning. Don’t bite off too much in the beginning, allow yourself time to mature in your living a more self sufficient lifestyle.

If you do go from seed, pick up your seeds and keep reading. You will need to start them out in a peat pot and transplant them once they have three leaves or more on each. They require a sunny location and the soil should always remain moist. Keep them away from the cold.

Once they have matured and they have three leaves, move them into a larger pot planting the peat pod into the soil. Provide the soil feed or fertilizer and water often as tomatoes like to be well watered. Like any plant, you will want to watch your tomatoes for bugs and treat accordingly. Remember, you will eat these tomatos later on. When choosing a treatment for bugs, always remember that!

The stems of the plants will eventually get weighed down by the weight of the plant. To help, use either a cage or drive a steak into the soil to help support the plants weight.

As you can tell tomatos are easy to grow. The best part is that you can grow your own tomatos in a pot or in a bed which means anyone living anywhere can grow them. All you need is seed, peat pods, water and fertilizer. Eventually a larger pot or garden bed, and treatment for bugs as needed.

Keep the soil moist and in a sunny location. Eventually your plants will show you why it was worth the effort.

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