Homegrown tomatoes can enhance your meals with their nutritional profile and taste.
Tomatoes are easy to grow from seeds in India, even in containers without a garden.
Select tomato seeds based on their intended use, such as plum tomatoes for sauces and cherry tomatoes for salads.
Start tomato seeds indoors between March and June in moderately fertile soil with a pH of 6.0 to 6.8.
Maintain soil moisture and temperature around 21 to 27°C for germination.
Cherry tomatoes are ideal for container gardening, requiring 5 to 6 hours of sunlight daily.
Transplant tomato seedlings outside when they are 5 to 6 inches long, and harden them off gradually.
Common tomato plant problems include pests like aphids and diseases like blight, but organic solutions like neem fertilizer and seaweed fertilizer can help.