How to Grow Large Beefsteak Tomatoes
Beefsteak tomatoes are large enough to cover a hamburger with one slice. You'll be the envy of all the tomatoes growers in your neighborhood when you bring out these large tomatoes at a cook-out. These tomatoes have been grown in backyard gardens for generations. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Find a local nursery that has mulch and growing soil for gardens. Take a garden rake and work this mulch into the area of your garden that you're going to grow tomatoes. Mix tomato food, fertilizer that's formulated for tomatoes, into the soil. Do not plant tomatoes in the same place you planted them last year. Tomato plants need six hours of sun a day.
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Go to a local nursery and buy plants. Go early in season so you can get your pick of the tomato plants. Always get the healthiest plants.
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Dig a hole large enough to put tomato plant in without crowding the roots. Pour water into bottom of hole to get soil wet.
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Put tomato plant into hole. Place soil around plant. Jiggle the plant so dirt will settle in around roots and to get any air out of hole. Pour water around plant. Finish putting soil around plant. Make a small dirt wall around plant so the water will not run away from plant. When you water you don't want your tomato plant to set in water but you want the water to settle and go all the way to the roots.
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Place a tomato cage over the tomato plant. The plant will grow straight up through the cage and the tomatoes will stay off the ground.
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Prune growth so you'll have one main stem. Cut small branches and leaves off the tomato plant. This is so the plant can use its energy to grow larger tomatoes.
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Plant golden French Marigolds in between tomato plants to help control nematodes. These are small microscopic bugs that like to attack tomato plants. Pick and stump any worms you find on plants.
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Water plants daily. Fertilize using directions on package, twice a week during growing season. Water plants from the bottom so roots can get plenty of water.
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Harvest when tomatoes turn bright red. They taste better when you let them ripen on bush.
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Tips & Warnings
Too much water or too little water can cause bloom drop or tomatoe end rot.
If soil is wet don't water.
If tomatoes plant wilts it needs more water.
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