Delicious Home-Grown Vegetables
Contributed by Green Landscape Nursery
Growing your own vegetables is a healthy family activity, and there's nothing quite like eating home-grown vegetables from your own garden when harvest time arrives. No store-bought vegetable, picked weeks before ripening, can match the flavor and tenderness of a vegetable picked at exactly the right moment!
Warm season vegetables to plant in April include tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, corn, chard, eggplant, squash, beets, carrots, and radishes.
Amend the soil with lots of EB Stone Soil Booster, and add EB Stone Sure Start to give them a strong start. This will produce more and larger vegetables.
Grow Big Juicy Red Tomatoes!
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Plant tomatoes in April and enjoy home-grown, vine-ripened tomatoes this summer and fall! Use these tips for a bountiful crop of top quality fruit:
- Select several varieties to lengthen your harvest period, and to learn which ones taste the best and perform well in your garden. Be certain to try some heirloom tomatoes.
- Choose a sunny spot--at least six hours of sun per day--and amend the soil with lots of EB Stone Soil Booster, and add EB Stone Sure Start to give them a strong start.
- Unlike almost all other plants, plant tomatoes deep--about two inches deeper than in their original container. Additional roots will form along the buried stem. Gently backfill and firm up the soil around the stem. Form a basin around the plant for watering.
- Stake or cage the plants to keep the tomatoes off the ground. It's best to put these supports in when you plant, not later, so you won't disturb their roots.
- Irrigate the plants--water deeply, but not too often. Add mulch to help maintain a more even soil moisture level.
