Juicy fresh tomatoes are important for adding flavour to your favourite recipes. The ones that you get from the supermarket can never be compared with homegrown tomatoes. So if you want to enhance the savour of your cooking with juicy and ripe tomatoes, read on to discover the art and craft of growing them in your kitchen garden.

• Tomato plants require enough heat. As such, warm months are the best for starting seedlings. For cold areas, you can begin with the task after the departure of frost months and put them in the greenhouse.

• If you are planting tomato plants, it will be great to place them in a sunny area. You can also make use of some special gardening tools like ‘walls of water’.

• Fertilise your tomatoes with a lot of organic matter to get better results. You can improve the soil quality by adding crushed seashells and compost to it.

• It is also important to guard your plants against weeds. You can do this by using a push-pull weed gardening tool like the Wolf-Garten IW-M, as well as a weed cloth in winter or mulch in the warmer months.

• You must use tomato cages to support your growing plants. This helps in promoting the growth while saving the already grown fruits.

• Tomatoes need regular and deep watering. Make sure that you fulfill this requirement by providing 1-2 inches water every week.

• Consult the local nursery for buying the hybrid and heirloom tomato plants that are best suited for the climatic conditions of your area.

Pick the tomatoes when they are red and glossy but don’t let the fruit go extremely soft.

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