While you are home-bound temporarily, enjoy your backyard and start growing seeds and seedlings, for example, tomatoes.
From the first seed sown to the last fruit stashed in the freezer, homegrown tomatoes are a labor of love. Whether it’s tomato-sowing time (as it is April 15ish in my Northeastern Zone 5B), or maybe already transplanting time in yours, it’s a good moment to review what goes into tomato-growing success.
Growing Tomatoes is Part Nature and Part Nurture
Start with a homegrown seedling or a locally raised one—not a big-box-store seedling that may have been shipped in from warmer zones, where more tomato diseases are endemic and overwinter. Plants from far away can be vectors for disease.
Getting great flavor out of a tomato is part nature, part nurture—meaning the genetics of the seed you start with, and the way you grow it both factor into what is probably a 60-40 equation. Choosing a Florida-bred variety for your New Hampshire garden will never let you hit the sweet(est) spot.
Here’s why, and how to push for a perfect flavor score:
https://awaytogarden.com/16-things-i-know-about-growing-tomatoes/
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