Tomato Seeds
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Laroma Tomato Seeds
62 days to harvest. This improved variety offers higher yields of larger, tastier fruit on stronger plants.
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How to Grow Tomatoes
Tomatoes prefer a light, fertile soil with plenty of organic matter. Soils with high levels of nutrients, especially nitrogen reduce high yields. Turn some shopped leaves into the soil in the fall, or add compost in spring. A few weeks before transplanting, cover the growing beds with black plastic to warm the soil. If you have a sunny window or better still grow lights, and a bit of patience, you will most likely end up with the biggest, best and tastiest tomatoes if you start your own seedlings. Tomato seedling are especially susceptible to damping off disease, so be sure to use a soil-less starting mix or medium for your seed flats. Six-eight weeks before the expected transplanting date, sow seeds.
Sowing
Seed Depth: ½" (13mm)
Germination soil temperature: 80º F (27ºC)
Days to Germination: 6-8
Sow indoors: 6-8 weeks before last frost.
Plant outdoors: After all danger of frost is past.
Growing
pH range: 5.8-7.0
Growing soil temperature: 70º F (21ºC)
Spacing in beds : 15" supported, 24" unsupported determinates, 36" unsupported indeterminates.
Watering: Moderate to high during growth, low during harvest.
Light: Full sun
Nutrient requirements: N=high, P=high, K=high
Rotation considerations: Avoid following potatoes, peppers, and eggplant.
Good Companions: Asparagus, basil, bush beans, cabbage family, carrot, chive, cucumber, garlic, head lettuce, marigold, mint, nasturtium, onion, parsley, pepper.
Bad Companions: Pole beans, dill fennel and potato.
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