1. Can You Plant Whole Tomatoes? What to Know Before …

    • Even though planting whole tomatoes is an ineffective way to propagate tomato plants, there are certain occasions when it might make sense to do so. Before I walk you through my step-by-step approach to plantin… 展开

    Step 1: Select A Less-Than-Ideal Tomato

    As gardeners, our goal is clearly to grow nice, healthy plants that will produce as much delicious produce as possible. If you’ve spent months cultivating and caring for your tomato plants, you shouldn’t take perfectly decent … 展开

    Step 2: Dig A Properly Sized Hole

    Here’s what I did next: Instead of walking over to the compost pile and tossing them in, I simply dug several small holes (for the cherry-sized tomatoes) and one large hole (for the larger tomato). There’s no rocket science involved… 展开

    Step 3: Slice Or Crush The Tomato

    Can you plant a whole tomato in the ground and grow a new tomato plant? Absolutely, as I’ve noted above. But if you’re going to do so, I’d recommend either slicing or crushing the tomato a bit first. Here’s why. If you plant a wh… 展开

    Step 4: Cover with Soil and Water Regularly

    This might seem obvious, but if you’ve recently placed an entire tomato in the ground, you’ll need to cover it with 1/2 inch (12mm) of soil if you’re hoping to grow a new tomato plant. If this is just a fun experiment, you … 展开

    Can You Plant Half A Tomato?

    The recommendations I’ve provided above beg the next obvious question: If you can plant whole tomatoes, can you cut tomatoes in half and plant those halves? Much like whole tomatoes, tomato halves can be planted d… 展开

     
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