Roma tomato plants require a long growing season.
Growing roma tomatoes in pots.
Romas do tend to be a little easier to grow than other tomatoes due to the fact than many are fusarium and verticillium wilt resistant.
When growing roma tomatoes you can start them from seeds or buy seedlings from your local nursery.
Plant your sprouts deep really deep so that they can develop a strong root system and grow more vigorously.
This can help to encourage more growth of the roots.
Place tomato pots in front of a sunny window for 6 12 hours of sun a day.
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A great benefit to growing tomatoes in containers is portability.
Few varieties of roma tomatoes have been developed for container growing.
Roma tomato sprout transplanted to 5 inch pot.
Once your roma tomato plants are 6 12 inches 15 to 30 5 cm high start staking the roma tomatoes up off the ground.
Also provide extra depth so the plants can easily absorb and transport water it also helps them to get nutrients from the soil helping them to achieve the optimum height.
Growing roma tomatoes in pots if you planned to grow the roma tomatoes prior to 3 months of the last frost date then you can grow seedlings.
A pot with at least 14 16inches height and 20 24 inches diameter are best suitable for growing roma tomatoes.
Containers are particularly useful if you don t have in ground garden space.
If you have enough space in your garden you can grow roma tomatoes in the soil.
Whereas if you do not have good space you can keep your tomatoes in the containers which are drained well.
Windowbox roma is one of the few readily available dwarf types and can be grown in a pot as small as 14 inches and.
Five controllable factors are essential for successfully growing tomato plants in containers.
They are best started indoors about 6 to 8 weeks before the last frost date.
You can move the containers to take advantage of the best growing conditions.
Dig a hole that s deep enough to cover about two thirds of the tomato stem.