When the flowers of the first truss are beginning to open transfer to 23cm 9in pots growing bags or plant 45 60cm 18 24in apart outside.
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Tomato plants thrive and produce more tomatoes when they re in a spot that receives at least six hours but better yet eight hours of direct sunlight.
If soil is fast draining consider using a water retaining additive self watering container or checking soil.
It is even possible to grow dwarf varieties in a 6 inch pot on a sunny windowsill.
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Plants for growing outdoors should be hardened off first.
1 most potting soils contain very few of the nutrients your plants require to grow and be healthy so you will need to add those nutrients to the soil or supplement the nutrients already present if your mix is heavy on compost.
Tomatoes are heavy feeders and need to be fertilized regularly if you aren t using a pre fertilized potting soil.
Set your cherry tomato containers where they can enjoy at least 6 8 hours of sun a day.
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Start planting your cherry tomatoes after the last frost date.
Dwarf cherry tomato varieties mature at under two feet tall.
One of the most useful qualities of cherry tomatoes is that they will grow in the smallest of spaces.
Remove the sideshoots regularly when they are about 2 5cm 1in long.
The soil s moisture content is one of the biggest challenges you face with container gardening.
This applies to growing tomatoes in pots or in the ground.
They work well in small containers 5 gallons or less in size.
Compact bushy cultivars of cherry tomatoes are the easiest to grow they look decorative trailing over the edge of a pot or trough and give you loads of small sweet pop in the mouth fruit from a single plant.
Don t sow seeds directly into your containers germination and development will take too long.
Be a watering vigilante.
It s easy to overestimate how much sun a spot in your garden or on your balcony receives.
Containers the larger the container the easier it will be to look after the plants.
Cherry tomatoes do best when given enough room to grow.
Plant purchased cherry tomato seedlings or seedlings you ve started indoors.
Because containers can dry out quickly achieving success growing tomatoes in containers depends on maintaining consistent moisture.
Growing cherry tomatoes in pots is the most popular method and literally any type of pot or container will work as long as it has good drainage.
Make sure your cherry tomatoes aren t shaded by other plants.
Ideally each plant needs at least a 30cm 12in pot or space them 35 45cm 14 18in apart along a deep windowbox or trough or in a growing bag.
Containers up to 20 inches in diameter is ideal and they should be able to hold at least 5 gallons of soil for the best results.
Plant plants not seeds.
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Trailing over the sides of a high pot on a balcony or in a window box it is still possible to grow cherry tomatoes successfully.
Let the sun shine.