Tomatoes must be the easiest vegetable to grow in our own gardens, they don't require loads of space and they produce a lot for every plant plus, they can be used in various ways.
It's cheap and more important: it's great to see mother nature's wonder, getting from seedlings to full grown plants.
Around 15 May every year, I start with seeding inside the house because it's still too cold outside in The Netherlands, 8 weeks later they're ready to be planted outside and around that time there is no risk on sub zero nights anymore.
In roughly five months, these little guys...
To temporary cups so they have more room for their roots to develop, on the right I have marigolds, they are perfect companions for tomatoes.
And on to their final place in my small garden.
To see these two pictures in comparison is crazy, the marigolds have grown so big as well this year!
After I seeded inside the house there were also 'wild' tomato plants in my garden, from fallen tomatoes last year so now I had way too many plants, on the other side of our backyard we recently made a new part with plants instead of concrete tiles so there was enough room to put them but they got completely overgrown and now I have a lot of tomatoes, it's a real mess on that side and it's not the prettiest I know, but look at how many!
I have to make sure the small regular plants we've put there don't get overgrown and maybe damaged.
