Growing Tomato Seedlings: Part 1

Gardening can be a fun and aesthetically pleasing way to help integrate your home with its surrounding environment. Using native and exotic plants, you can create a landscape that compliments your backyard and adds a sense of new life and freshness to your everyday routine. And no matter what climate you may live in, garden greenery is good for the environment, gets you outside and moving about, and teaches you just a little bit about life.

So everyone get out your green thumbs. In this free beginner gardening video series, get tips, advice, ideas and help for easy planting and fertilizing of your background garden. Learn how to put the right plant in the right spot, how deep to dig the hole and bury the roots, how to water properly, using a stake for plant stem support, what garden tools and equipment to use, and more. Our expert horticulturalist will give you a general course in creating the right environment for your new plants to flourish. Take notes, and then create the garden of your dreams.

"I'm Travis Steglich with Steglich Farm Supply in Bartlett, Texas and I am here with Expert Village to talk about planting tomatoes. Actually transplants in a greenhouse for spring of the year. We are here in January, it's a little early for planting tomatoes. You want to plant them probably about 6 weeks with seeds in the ground before you intend to set them out into the garden. That means that you are going to be in fairly cold weather so you are going to need a very bright window sill on the south or southeast side of the house that gets a lot of sun during the day or a greenhouse or some way to keep them warm and keep the frost from freezing them. A lot of people do grow them in small quantities on just a window sill. I am not a huge operation, I just grow a few plants for my customers and for my own amusement and tomatoes are some of the most widely grown vegetables in the world as far as home gardener's and cooks go."