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  

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