My Tomato Plants Started Bearing Fruits

After breakfast this morning, I went to the balcony to water and prune my plants (as usual) when I noticed that my tomato plants now have a number of tomato fruits! Oh wow! At long last! I noticed that they come from the flowers that were already wilted. Then it hit me, no wonder it took a while for my tomato plants to bear fruit --- I kept pruning the dried flowers before! Ack! This is what happens when I don't study vegetable farming very well and I just learn as I go along. Now that I know better, you also know better. I will never prune dried flowers anymore. Teehee.

Here, look at the photos I took this  morning of my babies bearing their own baby tomatoes. So cute!

Tomato, Eggplant and Okra Seedlings 2nd Month Update

It's been two months since I ventured into making my own vegetable garden. I've only re-potted my tomato, eggplant and okra seeds once and I've been meaning to transplant them again to much bigger pots where they can permanently grow and bear vegetable fruits. Unfortunately, I can no longer eat tomatoes, eggplant and okra because of my GERD and acid reflux but maybe once I'm healed, I can slowly incorporate them in my diet again.

I'll really find time his weekend to re-pot my growing vegetable seedlings. Must jot this down on my short-term goals book. I need to include this little activity and use the power of goal setting.

Anyway, here are photos I took a few minutes ago to show you how big my okra, tomato and eggplants seedlings are now:

2-month old tomato seedlings

How to Transplant Tomato and Okra Seedlings

Last month (October), the weather has been rainy and stormy that it proved to be bad for my tomato and okra seedlings which needed to be under direct sunlight in order to grow well. They were also crowding in their little recycled pots so I thought of transplanting them. Some survived and some didn't. Here's how it happened.

Transplanting Tomato Seedlings

Tomato seedlings are more resilient than okra. Once their stems grow about 3 inches, and they get to have more than two true leaves, and they seem crowded in their little pots, they can be transplanted to a bigger and deeper individual pots.

Growing Tomato Seedlings Without Sunlight

How do we grow tomato seedlings without sunlight? Tomato seedlings need a lot of sunlight in order to grow. In fact, even as full grown tomato plants, they won't be able to bear fruits without 12-14 hours of sunlight a day. So I was really worried when the weather started getting gloomy. I didn't know then that typhoon Pedring has already hit the country.

How to Plant Tomato Seeds - My Mini Vegetable Garden Project

Yesterday, I shared with you how to make an affordable mini vegetable garden. This stemmed from my desire to become more self-sufficient by being able to harvest and eat food that I grew myself. Read a little bit of the background here: How My Mini Vegetable Garden Started

So anyway, on this post, I'll tell you the most important things I learned on how to grow tomato seeds. HOW TO GROW TOMATOES THE EASY WAY