text: Starting Tomatoes from Seed - Farm Homestead
  There are many advantages seed planting your own tomatoes
  Starting tomatoes from seed is a very rewarding experience. Watching them grow from a tiny (and tomato seed ARE tiny!) seed into a towering plant full of the most delicious taste experience ever is tremendously fun! It may have a few days of hard work involved, depending on how many tomato plants you decide to grow, but still, fun!
  You can grow them without using chemical pesticides or fertilizers. Even if you do resort to chemicals, you know what you have used and you can ensure you don't use them when the fruit is on the plants.
  You can grow tastier and better varieties than are available in stores because you don't have to conform to supermarket standards of size, shape and color.
  If you want to start tomatoes from seed, sow them in February in a heated greenhouse or, if you don't have one, indoors. You are going to need a place where you can keep them under lights and monitor the temperature.
  Water with a fine mist (you can use a spray bottle for this) so they don't get swamped.
  If they were sown in a heated greenhouse, when they are large enough to go into the soil there, move them in their pots from the benches to the positions they in which will be planted to acclimatize them to slightly cooler conditions. After a day or two, plant them in the greenhouse beds with canes inserted next to each one for support.
  Whether inside or outside, the beds for tomatoes should have had well rotted manure dug in some weeks before you plant out. Alternatively, you can use 'growbags' but must be vigilant to make sure that they are well watered.
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