Planting Tomatoes

Yesterday evening we finally got around to repotting our tomato plants just in time for spring! We had originally planned to plant them in the ground but we have hardly any time these days so it was either further delay planting our tomato sprouts a few weeks or just put them in pots.

So we took off to Home Depot with the following list:

1. Potting Soil
2. Some kind of compost
3. Pots at least 14-18 inches deep*

Home Depot only had the potting soil, but thankfully Ace Hardware was able to pick up Home Depot's slack –kind of. We couldn't find compost, but we did find a manure & something mixture that we home might help. We'll see. It didn't smell though.

When we got home I snipped off the many extra leaves that had branched off our sprouts so we had nice long stems to cover up with soil. Hopefully they'll produce solid root systems. Husband and I then teamed up to get these guys in better pots. He did all the heavy labor (picking up the bags, getting the soil in the pots) while I carefully placed the tomato plants, protected the stems and leaves as more soil poured in, and leveled out the dirt.

Here's the final product:

Cherokee Purple

Black Krim

Pomodoro

Gold Medal

Linguisa

Strawberry

*or so the internet told us