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Tips for Growing Great Tomatoes

Tips for Growing Great Tomatoes

Update: 2024-05-23
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Want to grow great tomatoes?


With the right transplanting and care, your tomatoes will be off to a great start.


In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about:

  • Transplanting tomato seedlings
  • Protecting transplants from cold spring weather
  • How to stake, train, and support tomato plants
  • Pruning tomato suckers
  • Watering and feeding
  • Tomato challenges, including pests, diseases, and blossom end rot.

If you’re looking for more on how to support tomato plants, check out this article. 

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Steven Biggs & Donna Balzer: Horticulturists and edible landscaping experts.