Sweet and juicy summer tomatoes make you want to enjoy your garden crop straight immediately. Knowing how to speed up tomato growth is essential for an early harvest since tomato plants take 90 days to produce fruit from seed.
Many tomato varieties begin production early. Cherry tomatoes grow fruit in two months, making them good. Fast-blooming tomatoes like Early Cascade, Kootenai, Gold Nugget, Early Spring, Fantastic Hybrid, and Pic Red produce larger tomatoes.
Eight weeks before last frost, tomato planting begins indoors. Seedlings have time to grow before transplanting outside. Harden seedlings for wind, weather, etc.
Garden soil heats slower than raised beds. You can alter soil composition. Growth accelerates with better soil. Shale, compost, manure, soft rock phosphate, alfalfa meal, and worm castings make a tomato "super soil".
Water barriers protect seedlings from wind and keep them warm without raised beds. Pocketed constructions are affordable and reusable. After viewing the factory, they water each cell.
Cover tomatoes' root zones with plastic, straw, or other material once planted outside. Gardeners advocate red plastic sheeting, however it doesn't assist me.
Prunering tomato stems is unnecessary. Indeterminate tomato pruning increases yield and growth. You merely remove vegetation. Starting growth increases bloom and fruit.
Growth-promoting tomato fertilization. Young seedlings grow slowly due to tiny roots. Avoid high fertilizer ratios.