While food prices have increased and produce quality can be variable, it is valuable to know a few tricks to growing your own food. In many urban areas, people have become more interested in their food, how it is grown, and where it comes from. In this post, I will outline a simple technique to grow an urban tomato with unsurpassed quality.
Growing your own food can be an exciting and demanding experience. Variety, nutrient availability, water, and sunlight are factors that come to mind when I consider the potential for a cultivated plant. One simple question you can ask yourself is “Is there any limiting factor to plant growth?”. With urban tomato project, I used one orange beefsteak transplant and coupled with vertical exposure and early watering, it grew into quite the biomass.
Most tomatoes have two growth habits, deep roots and suckering side shoots. If you plan to grow an urban tomato consider two things, what is five feet below ground and how much sun exposure above ground. Luckily, this urban space in Santa Rosa, California is on top of deep allulival soils and beneath a supportive rooftop. To succeed, select one to five shoots, maintain their upward dominance, and turn string between leaf and flower clusters for support.
I think most people who grow tomatoes for the first time don’t consider how large they’ll get and how heavy the plant will get.