Week To Week Tomato Growing Tips

Here we give you tips for each week of the year to help you be successful growing tomatoes. It's like a whole book just about growing tomatoes. There are tips from Nancy Szerlag, queen of tomatoes in Michigan.

Week 1 is the first week of the year. Many calendars will note the week number. In each of the files is the actual date for that week for 2010.

Week # Date in 2010 Topic

1 Jan 1 – 10 Happy New Year!!!

2 Jan 11 – 17 New Year’s Resolution – take photos of each variety and any problems that come up

3 Jan 18 – 24 Websites specializing in growing tomatoes

4 Jan 25 – 31 Setting Up Indoor Seed Starting System

5 Feb 1 – 7 Winter's the time to get my tomato plans ready

6 Feb 8 – 14 Best Seed Catalogs for tomato selections

7 Feb 15 – 21 Tomato varieties particularly resistant to problems

8 Feb 22 – 28 Starting From Seed Can Be Fun

9 Mar 1 – 7 Choosing This Year’s Tomatoes

10 Mar 8 – 14 What About Plastic Mulches

11 Mar 15 – 21 Growing Tomatoes In Containers

12 Mar 22 – 28 Choosing Heirloom Tomatoes

13 3/29 - 4/4 Choosing Where To Grow Your Tomatoes

14 Apr 5 – 11 Starting Tomatoes From Seed With seed soaking tips

15 April 12 - 18 Best Soil Amendments For Tomatoes

15 Apr 12 – 18 Sungold Cherry Tomatoes Are A Must-Grow

16 Apr 19 - 25 Starting tomato seedlings update

17 4/26 – 5/2 How Many Tomatoes to Plant?

18 May 3 - 9 Do Tomatoes Need A Trellis?

18 May 3 – 9 Soil Amendments From The Kitchen

19 May 10 – 16 Buying tomato seedlings

20 May 17 – 23 Planting Tomatoes

21 May 24 – 30 Watering Tomatoes

22 5/31 – 6/6 Fertilizing Tomatoes

23 Jun 7 – 13 Flowers & Fruit On Tomatoes

23 Jun 7 – 13 Slugs Should Be No Problem For Tomatoes

24 Jun 14 – 20 Prevent Tomato Disease; Mulching Tomato Plants

Reinforcing Tomato Cages

25 Jun 21 – 27 Pest insects on tomatoes

26 6/28 – 7/4 Pruning tomato plants

27 Jul 5 – 11 Watering tomatoes update

28 Jul 12 – 18 Watching Soil Temperature

29 Jul 19 – 25 Managing the trellis and the tomato plant; preferred ties;

30 7/26 – 8/1 Harvesting and storing tomatoes

31 Aug 2 – 8 Avoiding late blight and other environmental stresses

32 Aug 9 - 15 Pest animals and birds; squirrels and cardinals

33 Aug 16 – 22 Recipe suggestion

34 Aug 23 – 29 Recipe suggestion

35 8/30 – 9/5 Recipe suggestion

36 Sep 6 – 12 Recipe suggestion

37 Sep 13 – 19 Saving and storing Tomato Seed; Recipe suggestion

38 Sep 20 – 26 Prune blossoms in late fall, Recipe suggestion

39 9/27 – 10/3 Extending the tomato growing season; Recipe suggestion

40 Oct 4 – 10 Fall is the time to improve soil Recipe suggestion

41 Oct 11 -17 Preserving tomatoes

Recipe suggestion

42 Oct 18 – 24 Ripen green tomatoes in the house

43 Oct 25 – 31

44 Nov 1 – 7 Cleaning up the tomato patch

45 Nov 8 – 14 Evaluate this year’s varieties

46 Nov 15 – 21

47 Nov 22 -28

48 11/29–12/5 Books about growing tomatoes (possible Xmas present?)

49 Dec 6 – 12

50 Dec 13 – 19

51 Dec 20 – 26 Merry Christmas

52 Dec 27 - 31