HOW TO PLANT TOMATO SEEDS INDOORS
season with these easy steps starring
your seeds indoors gives you the benefit
of extending your growing season to many
more months so there are some plants
that are better when started indoors and
then there are some plants as you can
see that do best when they are directly
stored in the soil so we are going to be
starting our tomato seeds indoors for
these you need a few things you need the
tomato seeds we're using a couple of
different varieties of tomato seeds here
the big boy hybrid from Burpee and the
Rutgers tomato from fairy mores both of
these are excellent tomato varieties to
grow and we will be starting them
indoors so that we get a head start into
the growing season so you need the seeds
you need markers you also need some tags
which you can use to label the plants we
are using a jiffy greenhouse here if you
want to buy this product you can look at
the video description for the product
link and make sure that you're buying
the tomato greenhouse now the difference
between a regular jiffy greenhouse and a
tomato greenhouse is that the seed
pellets are a little larger for the
tomato greenhouse now remember the
tomato plants do grow very large and
they grow very quickly in the speed
pellets so make sure that you're getting
the tomato greenhouse or you can use
other ways to start your Tomatoes you
could use your own potting mix and
create some sterile soil put them in
pots you can use whichever method method
works best for you but I just find these
peat pots to be very easy to use and a
very foolproof and guaranteed method to
work for germinating seeds indoors
so we're going to be taking six of these
peat pots and we grab it growing three
plants of each variety so I'm going to
take this in a baking tray I didn't have
anything smaller but if you have
something smaller that might be a better
idea and then I'm going to just pour
some water into this baking tray and
what you want to do is you want to let
these peat pots absorb all the water
that you put around them and the whole
idea is that once they absorb all the
water they're going to become larger in
size and then you are ready to plant
your seeds inside them so just add some
water to let them soak up all the water
the peat will soak up all the water and
become very large in volume as you will
soon see you need to give it some time
and as you can see here the peat pots
have started expanding taking in all the
water and just keep adding more water as
needed and in some time you will see
that they've now expanded to the full
volume and once that is done you are now
ready to plant your seeds inside these
peat pots so these are the plant markers
I'm going to use I got them really cheap
at Amazon it was actually cheaper than
any other plant label that I could find
and remember that this technique is not
only good for starting seeds indoors
it's also good to start seeds while you
don't have space to grow your plants so
for example you could have tomatoes
growing in your containers and then you
want to start another set of tomatoes
let's say for the next few weeks later
and then you can just use these
transplants and plant them directly
where you want them so now what we're
going to do is sow the seeds the tomato
seeds are very small tomato seeds have
quite a good germination rate but we
will still put two seeds
in every beat pot and the reason you
need to put two seeds in every peat pot
is that one of these seeds will
vigorously sprout and grow and it will
overtake the other one and that's the
one that you want to keep because that
will be the plant with the most vigor so
once you plant the seeds make sure you
label it immediately it may not have to
be in the right spot but you do not want
to miss this step of labeling your seeds
and will do the same thing with the
other tomato variety and then label
these seeds as well so that's it and now
you need to make sure the seeds
germinate
I used my greenhouse in order to
germinate the seeds but you could also
grow them very easily under grow lights
inside your home just make sure they are
set in a sunny location so that when the
seedlings emerge they have some light so
as you can see the seeds of sprouter and
the seedlings have become quite tall and
it's now time to thin the seedlings so
thinning the seedlings usually means
that you just take scissors and just
snip off the tip of the plant that's not
healthy compared to the other seedling
inside the same pot so if you have
doubts on which seedling is better than
the other just look at the overall
growth the number of leaves and then
make a choice and keep one and cut off
the others so in this case it's a tough
choice both of these seedlings are
pretty well matched but we still have to
select one candidate to get rid of so
let's just choose this candidate right
there and what we're going to do is
slowly snip
this time off so that this plant is
removed right just like that and now you
can leave these plans to grow for a few
more weeks till they're ready to be
transplanted now in my case I did not
have any space left to plant these
tomato plants and I had a lot of tomato
plants growing inside my greenhouse and
these long tomato plants are actually
better because you can bury the tomato
stem underground and that's going to
send out a lot of leaves and you can see
how healthy these plants are and they've
taken off pretty well and since I don't
have any space what I did was I have
transplanted these seedlings into a
little bigger sized container so what
that enables me to do is buy some more
time maybe about a month or two before I
transplant these plants in the ground or
in bigger containers so the procedure is
pretty simple I'm just removing the peat
pot cover and I'm planting them really
deep as deep as I can into these
containers you don't have to plant them
too deep just make sure that you bury a
lot of the stem underground and that's
going to send out the roots
now how do you determine the day that
you need to start your seeds indoors
well it's a very simple thing go to this
website that you see on your screen and
then look up the last frost date in the
city that's closest to where you live so
for example in my area the last frost
date is 24th of February so that enables
me to start six to eight weeks before
24th february which means approximately
in the beginning of January through
about 15 of January that way I'll be
able to set out my transplants end time
and ready to grow for the next season so
