My Home Garden #12 | Growing Tomatoes From Seeds!

Namaste to all #hivegarden and #nature lovers.😊🙏

It's been a long time since I shared stories related to my garden with you all. I also missed writing about my plants. And it is not that I haven't grown anything new in the meantime. I have grown many new plants like tomato, capsicum, pumpkin etc. but the mistake was that I forgot to take step-by-step pictures of the growth.

So in today's blog, I will talk about the growth of tomatoes and the care precautions related to them.
On March 20, I cut a thick fresh tomato and sowed its seeds in a small cup, after which you can clearly see their germination in this picture of March 25.

4 seeds had successfully germinated and came out of the soil and a few days later 2 more seeds had germinated, meaning now I had 6 tomato seedlings.

As of tomorrow afternoon, about 18 days after sowing, the length of these 6 seedlings was approximately 4 to 6 inches. They had also developed true leaves, which in my experience is the right time to transfer a plant into the bigger pot.

So yesterday evening itself, I took out these plants from that plastic cup and planted them in a bigger container.

There is one thing worth noting here. Looking at the plants in the picture above, they do not appear to be 5-6 inches tall. Why? Because the roots of the tomato plant emerge from its main stem also, I have planted these plants deep in the soil. This will increase the growth of the plant in future and it will bear more fruits.
An example of which you can see in the picture shown below.

The plant above is a tomato which I grew from the seed of a big red tomato about two and a half months ago. I wish I had taken childhood photos of this plant.

However, I planted it also only 3 inches deeper. But still, compared to my previous experiences, this plant is growing taller and is bearing more healthy fruits.

Here, apart from planting the sapling deep in the soil, I also did some other things due to which I think the growth of my plants will be better.

Once in 10 to 12 days, I dissolve mustard cake in water and pour the water into these plants. Mustard cake is really a great organic fertilizer which makes the soil rich in nutrients and also protects the plants from fungi, infections and insects by acting as a great non-chemical pesticide.
And this is very important because in my experience it has never happened that any of my fruit and vegetable plants did not have Malibugas on them. But this is the first time that my plant is producing so many fruits without any disease and I'm thankful for that.
After recent study, I came to know that tomatoes like calcium the most after sunlight, which you can also use in raw (choona) form if you want, just you should mix it in water instead of giving it directly to the plants.
Mixing it in water and giving that water to plants has 2 benefits.
1. Instead of getting collected at any one place, it mixes completely in the soil.
2. When dissolved in water, it also reaches the roots and for this you do not even have to dig the soil.

Now for this, you can use calcium-rich fertilizer or egg shells.
Follow these 3 things that I have told you today and then next time your tomato plants will tell you how happy they are.

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Here are all my green blogs

#11 | Growth Update of Indian Red Chilli Plant!

#10 | Growing Bottle Gourd From Seeds!

#9 | New Life of Old Curry Leaves!

#8 | Growing Pumpkin from Seeds

#7 | Carrort Harvesting Fest.

#6 | A Beautiful Flower from a Family of Prestigious Medicinal Trees.

#5 | Growing Indian Red Chilli from Seeds

#4 | Harvesting Radishes from Pots

#3 | Growing Carrot From Seeds

#2 | Growing Radish From Seeds

#1 | Growing dessert rose from seeds

Have you ever grown a plant from its seed?

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Have a Happy and Blessed day!