How To Seed Tomatoes
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How To Seed Tomatoes
It’s time to start growing your tomato seeds! How exciting is it to have something to grow and watch over the next couple of weeks? What you need is a propagator and seed sowing compost. You can buy these from garden centers and there’s lots of places to buy these online. For those of you who are new to growing fruit and vegetables, a propagator is a tray that has lots of little modules for you to pop all your different seeds in and it comes with a lid to keep the seeds lovely and warm. You can pick any variety of tomato that you want to grow, I've chosen four Tigerella, Chocolate Cherry, Noire de Crimee and Stupicke Polni Rane.
Steps to seed your tomatoes!
Fill the modules with the seed sowing compost keeping the soil fairly loose
Using a pen make a small hole in the center of each module, about a third of the way down
Put a maximum of two seeds into each hole
With your finger, gently cover over the holes with soil
Spritz some water over the top. Do not add too much water as this will cause the tomatoes to rot
Add the lid and pop it in a warm space. For example in a greenhouse or on a windowsill, somewhere that gets nice and sunny
Every three days or so spritz some water over the seeds
I have my tomato seeds stored in a mini greenhouse which I am loving, they're so handy, inexpensive and don’t require as much space as a greenhouse!
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