Starting Tomatoes From Plug Plants
Growing tomatoes has constantly been enjoyable for gardeners and it is no wonder when you eat into a freshly chosen tomato directly from from the plant, it is just delicious.
It takes about two months from seed to flower and another two months from flower to fruit making a total time of approximately four months to raise tomatoes from start to finish
An excellent way to reduce the duration is to purchase tomato plug plants. These are tiny plants that could be from four to eight weeks old and will provide you a fast start to the season.
There comes a point in the season when it is too late to plant tomato seeds because the climate will turn too cold, or too warm if you reside in certain areas of the world, for tomatoes to produce fruit. This means that there is a opportunity to produce plants from seeds that can be increased with the help of tomato plug plants.
Another value of tomato plug plants is that they can help prevent some of the problems linked with sowing seeds. During germination some seeds may be unsuccessful, and also, damping off which is a fungal attack on seedlings and the problem of leggy plants through poor light conditions.
These couple of problems may be avoided by obtaining plug plants that have been cared for under better growing conditions at a horticultural centre.
Of course tomato plug plants are a little more expensive than growing tomatoes from seed but they also save a lot of time getting seed trays and seed compost. Sowing and then transferring into tiny pots, plug plants can be put directly into a average size pot using multi purpose compost.
If there is a singular disadvantage in using tomato plug plants it is that there is less choice of tomato types than if sowing from seeds. There are lots of different types of tomatoes available to grow from seed, if you want to experiment with an heirloom, you will probably not see it in plug plant form.
