Week To Week Tomato Growing Tips

How to Use This Tomato Growing Calendar

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.

Winter Planning: Weeks 1–9 (January)

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

Early Spring Prep: Weeks 5–15 (February – Mid April)

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

Planting Time: Weeks 16–22 (Late April – Early June)

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

Peak Growing Season: Weeks 23–32 (June – Mid August)

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

Late Season & Harvest: Weeks 33–43 (Mid August – October)

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 soilRecipe suggestion

41   Oct 11 -17 Preserving tomatoes

Recipe suggestion

42 Oct 18 – 24 Ripen green tomatoes in the house

43 Oct 25 – 31  

Wrap-Up & Reflection: Weeks 44–52 (November – December)

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

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