As with any project, success will bring new challenges or rather a need for new success. In “Cloning Tomato Plants” we learned how to propagate new tomato plants from the successful plants of the previous year. Or as in my case, keep the old plants going so that I don’t need to spend the money for new plants come spring. Yes! I am a cheap skate, but as the venerable Mr. Franklin once said, “A penny earned, is a penny saved”, and that was when a penny had some real value unlike today’s currency.

I have learned, through much effort, that in many recipes the ’secret’ is a ripe tomato. That’s it.
Not all sorts of exotic flavourings measured by scientific methods but a tomato. A ripe one.

These Three Tricks can be put into immediate practice.

Easy-to-follow instruction on how to grow tomatoes in a small container, box, cat litter box or bucket. Same technique can be used for growing small cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, various vegetables, and herbs. Tomato yield calculator to calculate how many containers you will need to grow a required number of tomatoes!