Your plants will eventually require stopping (halting upward growth) and pinching out (removing side-shoots). Whatever variety you wish to grow this guide will give you a good steer on what to do from seed all the way to harvest. There are many different varieties of tomato from sweet cherry tomatoes, to plum, to super-sized full-flavoured beef tomatoes. For simplicity we will refer to it as a fruit in this guide since we are talking about the fruit produced by a plant. While technically a fruit, because botanically, a fruit is a ripened flower ovary and contains seeds (which a tomato is and has), it’s also a vegetable, because we consume and consider it as one. Tomatoes are simply one of the most popular, most eaten, vegetables around. You can save the seeds from your tomatoes and grow them again next year too. There’s more, a single plant can produce hundreds of tomatoes in a season, so it can pay for itself many times over. Lycopene has been shown to help unclog blocked arteries and is thought to be a reason the Mediterranean diet is so healthy.
If you compare that to how they would grow naturally, the kind you’ll grow yourself, the flavour is night and day – the true taste of a tomato – and you can harvest when they are ripe and ready to go.Īdditionally, homegrown tomatoes are healthier with higher levels of the pigment ‘Lycopene’. They are also typically harvested before they are fully ripened. Ready to get started? Read through our step-by-step guide to growing tomatoes in a growing bag, below.ĭid you know the tomatoes you buy in supermarkets are grown in soilless environments with artificial fertilisers injected into them? This is to guarantee yields, shelf-life, and disease resistance year-round – tomatoes need good sun to grow which is at a premium in many regions of the UK – and while perfectly safe, it comes at the expense of other qualities like flavour. However, tomatoes are thirsty and hungry plants, so the routine isn’t much different wherever they are planted. This is OK though it simply means feeding them regularly with a good fertiliser/liquid feed and monitoring that little bit more than you perhaps would if planting in the ground or in pots to ensure your plants are getting enough water. The main thing to be aware of if growing tomatoes in grow bags is that the available volume of compost is fixed, which means that it cannot hold enough nutrients for a season or water for an extended period. Grow bags are perfect for beginners who wish to dip their toe in the water of growing their own and anyone whose available space is at a premium. Each bag in turn can typically allow for three plants, which will produce hundreds of tomatoes over a single growing season with the right care. The great thing about growing in grow bags is that the compost is already mixed conveniently, and you also grow right from the bag. It will reward you with a plentiful crop all of your own making to enjoy during the summer months, from a single grow bag.
However, the whole process from seed to harvest is still remarkably simple and straightforward, even for beginners.
Growing tomatoes in bags is convenient, neat, and effective, but is a little different from growing in pots or in the ground. Growing tomatoes from grow bags at home is a great way to start off growing your own tomatoes.
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