You Can Grow Tomatoes Indoors

You can grow tomatoes in your own home, and it’s actually quite simple. In this article, you’ll learn how to grow tomato plants using the Hydroponic Growing System and the Self-Watering Container System, and how these two systems differ from a typical backyard garden.

Fastest, Easiest Indoor Tomato Garden

Let’s cut to the chase. If you want the fastest, easiest indoor tomato garden, you need only 3 things. Combine an AeroGarden Bounty Basic [affiliate link] Hydroponic Growing System with the AeroGarden Red & Golden Cherry Tomato Seed Pod Kit [affiliate link]. Add a package of hole covers [affiliate link], since you’ll dedicate the entire Bounty Basic to your tomato plant.

Tomato Plants Love Hydroponic Growing Systems

Tomato plants absolutely love, love, love Hydroponic Growing Systems. You’ll have a sprawling tomato plant with dozens of little yellow flowers quicker than you thought possible.

The AeroGarden Bounty Basic mentioned above is one example of a Hydroponic Growing System. It’s a self-contained, soil-less garden for growing plants like herbs, lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers. A Hydroponic Growing System is a kitchen appliance. Depending on the number of plants a Hydroponic Growing System grows, the device could be as tiny as a two-slice toaster or as large as a small microwave.

In a Hydroponic Growing System the size of an AeroGarden Bounty Basic, you can choose to grow one tomato plant in the center or two plants, one on each edge of the grow deck.

You can decide whether to allow your tomato plant to sprawl out, extending a foot or two out from the Bounty, or trim the branches to keep it compact and tidy. (I allow my tomato plants to sprawl out on the counter and prune unproductive branches periodically.)

A well-tended tomato plant growing indoors can live the better part of a year or even longer. You’ll need to add water to the tank every couple days, as a tomato plant that large gets very thirsty. Your plant will appreciate a full replacement of the water in the tank at least monthly.

Selecting A Hydroponic Growing System For Growing Tomatoes

At the open of this article, I recommended starting with an AeroGarden Bounty Basic and the AeroGarden tomato pod kit as the quickest path to an indoor tomato garden. I’ll explain why next, but also offer alternatives to AeroGarden products.

AeroGarden Pre-Seeded Pods Save Time and Reduce Risk

Plenty of manufacturers offer Hydroponic Growing Systems. However, AeroGarden is one of the few manufacturers that offer pre-seeded pods, and AeroGarden promises to replace any seed pod that hasn’t germinated in 3 weeks, so you risk nothing. With other manufacturers, you buy seeds separately, you assemble the pod, and you have no assurance the seeds will germinate.

AeroGarden offers a wide range of pre-seeded pods compatible with all their Hydroponic Growing Systems models. You just open the box and drop the pods into the holes in the deck, and you have a garden. AeroGarden offers a Salad Greens Seed Pod Kit [affiliate link] worth investigating.

If you have plants you’d like to try out in your AeroGarden garden, you can grow your own seeds with the AeroGarden Grow Anything Seed Pod Kit [affiliate link]. Of course, AeroGarden does not guarantee your seeds will grow, but your seeds use the same system as theirs, so fresh, healthy seeds should do just fine.

A Powerful Grow Light and Ample Space to Spread Out Promote Higher Tomato Yields

In addition to AeroGarden guaranteeing the seeds will germinate, AeroGarden is one of the few manufacturers offering a high-power grow LED mounted on a high-enough platform to accommodate taller plants like a tomato or pepper plant.

A typical countertop Hydroponic Growing System offers a grow LED between 15 watts and 24 watts. The light platform of the typical countertop Hydroponic Growing System extends about 12 inches above the pod deck, with some devices having light platforms that extend up to 18 inches.

The powerful 30-watt light assembly on the AeroGarden Bounty Basic lifts a full 24″ above the grow deck, leaving ample room for a large tomato plant. The light platform on the two other models in the AeroGarden Bounty series of Hydroponic Growing Systems also extend 24″ above the grow deck, but they offer even more powerful lights. The mid-level AeroGarden Bounty [affiliate link] offers a 40-watt light and the AeroGarden Bounty Elite [affiliate link] offers a 50-watt light. The two higher-level models even offer WiFi connectivity make easy gardening even more convenient!

If you choose to allow your tomato plant to sprawl out, the more powerful light of the Bounty and Bounty Elite models could prove to be an advantage. The power of a light diminishes quickly the further the plant is from the light source, so the more powerful light mitigates this loss.

All the AeroGarden Bounty models have nine pod holes and each model comes with 9 pre-seeded pods with a variety of herbs. Set aside the herb pods if you intend to grow one or two tomato plants. Even one tomato plant can grow so large it crowds out the herb plants.

Alternatives to the AeroGarden Bounty Series Hydroponic Growing System

If the AeroGarden Bounty series is not to your liking, Hydroponic Growing Systems from other manufacturers can do the job. Few devices offer as powerful a growing light and a light platform that extends as high to provide the same vertical space for growing your tomato plant. But I’ve grown tomato plants in an AeroGarden Harvest 360 [affiliate link] (6 pods, 12″ light deck), so if a kit works for you, go with it.

The Suncoze 20-pod garden [affiliate link] comes closest to the AeroGarden Bounty in features. The 30-watt light matches the AeroGarden Bounty Basic and the 25″ light assembly height even rises an inch higher than any Bounty model. The tank holds 10 liters of water, significantly more than most other countertop Hydroponic Growing Systems, and a great convenience when growing thirsty tomato plants. You supply your own tomato seeds; the Tiny Tim micro dwarf cherry tomato plant [affiliate link] fits the bill perfectly.

You’ll still need the hole covers to block the light from getting into the water in the pod holes you don’t use. Light plus water equals algae growth. However, each manufacturer sets its own pod dimensions, so verify hole covers fit before purchasing them.

Hydroponic Growing Systems Grow Awesome Tomato Plants

The AeroGarden Bounty Basic combined with the AeroGarden pre-seeded tomato pod kit gets your indoor garden started in a jiffy. What garden is easier to set up than a Hydroponic Growing System? You do little more than fill the tub with water, insert a seed pod, and plug it in, and you have a garden on your kitchen counter!

A Hydroponic Growing System may be the quickest way to start a tomato garden indoors but you have other options. The Self-Watering Container System offers a soil-based garden also incredibly favorable to growing tomatoes.

Grow Tomatoes Indoors with a Self-Watering Container System

Tomato plants grown in a Hydroponic Growing System will be limited in size and type. You can grow full-size tomatoes in a soil-less garden, but a Self-Watering Container System probably furnishes you with better results. The trade-off is that you’ll have to assemble the Self-Watering Container System yourself.

A Self-Watering Container System Is Like An Indoor Raised Bed Garden

A Self-Watering Container System is similar to an indoor raised bed garden paired with a powerful grow light (typically LED) on a timer. What appears to be an indoor raised bed garden is a self-watering container matched with a technique similar to square foot gardening. This system results in tremendous plant growth.

The Self-Watering Containing System brings together some of the best technologies and techniques available into a garden you set up indoors. You blend high-quality potting mix, nutrients, fertilizers, and a continuous water supply with a light source designed for maximum plant yield. Each Self-Watering Container System takes little floor space, so you can set up several.

A floor space of about 2 square feet suits a Self-Watering Container System well. You want your chosen area to allow for tall and/or wide plants. A Self-Watering Container System is amazingly flexible in the variety of plants it will grow. In this case, your tomato plant will grow tall, but you can allow it to grow wide as well.

You mount a grow LED above your self-watering container to draw the tomato plant up. Be prepared to raise the LED platform as the plant grows. A 60-watt or greater LED is recommended. As you increase the height of the light, the light disperses, resulting in less light hitting any particular point on your plant.

To extract the greatest amount of light from your grow LED, you can place your Self-Watering Container System under a cover with reflective interior walls. The reflective interior walls bounce the dispersing light back toward the plant. You also won’t have a very bright light illuminating your living room for 16 hours per day. On the down side, you don’t get to gaze over at your beautiful indoor garden to see all those tasty tomatoes ready to be harvested.

You can add vertical grow LEDs [affiliate link] to your garden if you feel it helps. Vertical grow LEDs are a stick, about four feet long, on a tripod, so the stick stands straight up. Three or four of these lights positioned surrounding your indoor garden bed, with the lights aimed inward, provide light to the entire height of your tomato plant.

A Self-Watering Container System is a self-watering container, adapted for indoor use, combined with a powerful grow LED, and filled with a specialized soil media. Everything about the system is designed to boost the growth and yield of your plants.

You are surely familiar with a traditional flower pot. The pot holds potting soil and an attached pan catches water that flows through the soil. The water that ends up in the pan evaporates. A self-watering container integrates a water reservoir into the bottom of the container so very little water evaporates. Instead, the water reservoir of a self-watering container actively promotes plant growth.

The self-watering container used for your indoor garden actually blends the potting mix into the water, so the water wicks up into the potting mix to feed the roots. Holes in the bottom of the compartment holding the potting mix allow roots to grow down into the water reservoir. You’ll water your plants less frequently; just keep the reservoir topped off.

How To Assemble A Self-Watering Container System

Three self-watering containers stand out as worthy candidates. Rectangular models from EarthBox [affiliate link] and Emsco [affiliate link] and a deeper, square model from EarthBox [affiliate link] work well. These containers hold about two to three gallons of water.

The grow media is a high-quality potting mix [affiliate link], not dirt or potting soil. If you were to blend your own potting mix, one-third peat moss [affiliate link], one-third vermiculite [affiliate link], and one-third compost [affiliate link] gets the job done. You’ll need a total of about two cubic feet of potting mix.

Both EarthBox and Emsco recommend mixing Dolomite [affiliate link] to the potting mix as you fill your self-watering container. Dolomite adds essential calcium and magnesium to the system.

Fertilizer you apply to the surface of the potting mix feeds the plants over the long term. The fertilizer you select varies based upon the plants you’ll grow. Qualified fertilizers include Cz Garden 10-10-10 All Purpose Fertilizer [affiliate link]; Dr. Earth Home Grown Organic & Natural Tomato, Vegetable, and Herb Fertilizer (4-6-3) [affiliate link]; and Burpee Natural All-Purpose Plant Food (4-4-4) [affiliate link]. EarthBox and Emso instruct you how to select and apply the fertilizer.

You can start your tomato plants in the Self-Watering Container System. Just set the seeds where recommended by the self-watering container manufacturer. You can start seeds using a dedicated seed starter tray on a heater mat [affiliate link] and transplant seedlings later. You could buy seedlings if you are starting your garden in the spring, but a fundamental reason for an indoor garden is being able to start a garden any day of the year.

You may find having a dedicated seed starter tray with a heated mat expedites growing certain plants for your Self-Watering Container System. You can start a couple extra seeds and choose the best plants to transplant. If you later add a vertical garden [affiliate link] to your home, you’ll have the tools already for starting seedlings.

Your self-watering container kit probably includes a tarp to cover the grow media. You stretch the tarp over the container and cut slits where your plants grow. The tarp suppresses weeds, a bigger concern when growing plants outdoors, but it also reduces evaporation of water from the reservoir and discourages bug activity. Although you are growing plants indoors, install the tarp. Take every advantage you have to promote plant growth (and prevent visits from annoying bugs).

Provide Your Indoor Tomato Plants With Favorable Growing Conditions

Most of the material you’ll come across on the Internet regarding growing tomatoes focuses on helping you grow tomatoes outdoors. You’ll have to adapt what you learn about growing a garden to your in-home environment. You’re looking for universal facts about tomatoes. For example, what is the perfect range of temperatures for growing tomato plants? Once you know this, ensure your house temperature stays within that range. When is the best time to harvest a tomato? Once you know this, watch your in-home tomato plant closely and pick tomatoes at the optimal time.

Growing a tomato plant in a Hydroponic Growing System is fairly straightforward. It’s even easier when starting with the pre-seeded tomato plant pods from AeroGarden. But you increase your odds of success by understanding the needs of a tomato plant and providing your tomato plants with favorable growing conditions.

Temperature Matters to Your Tomato Plant

Many articles about growing tomato plants outdoors allot much print space to scheduling planting times based upon optimal soil and air temperatures and planning around frost dates. Frost dates don’t apply to indoor gardens, but air temperature does. Fortunately, tomato plants adapt well to the temperature range found in a typical house or apartment.

Tomato plants grow best when the daytime temperature holds between 70°F and 82°F and the nighttime temperature drops to between 60°F and 70°F. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Your tomato plant suffers if you allow the temperature to drop too low. 50°F is the floor for temperature for maintaining healthy tomato plants.

For example, in tomatoes, if the nighttime temperature were to drop below 50°F at 10 p.m. and not warm up until 8 a.m. the next day, the plant would behave as if it were still night and continue nighttime activities during daylight hours. At the same time, the plant would initiate daytime processes that compete with such ongoing nighttime processes as the breakdown of starch into sugars.

Cool Nightlife Bad for Tomatoes – United States Department of Agriculture

Hopefully, you keep the temperature in your home above 50°F. But 86°F seems to be a commonly recognized ceiling for daytime temperature before your tomato plant suffers. (3)

Seed germination can be around 77°F but temperature should be lowered soon afterward. (2) This matters more for the Self-Watering Container System than the Hydroponic Growing System.

Fertilization of Flowers on Your Tomato Plant

Tomato plants make your life easy in the fertilization arena. Tomato flowers are self-pollinating. You don’t need bees and butterflies or homemade tools. You can shake the tomato plant branches to pollinate the flowers. And you don’t even need to do that yourself! Place a fan near your plant and let the breeze pollinate your tomato flowers.

You can help the pollination along by keeping relative humidity near 70%. (2) Granted, that’s a little high for a house or apartment. A tent (like a Vivosun Grow Tent [affiliate link]) over your Self-Watering Container System or Hydroponic Growing System aids in retaining humidity, if you want to provide your plant the greatest odds of success. A tent serves up another benefit, that being light management, especially desirable if you have a bright light in a small apartment.

Temperatures below 55°F inhibit pollination. (6) Again, hopefully, your in-home temperature never gets this chilly.

Watering Your Tomato Plant

How you water your indoor tomato plant if you grow your plant using a Hydroponic Growing System or a Self-Watering Container System differs significantly from how you water an outdoor plant.

In a Hydroponic Growing System, a tomato plant grows with its roots submerged in water laced with nutrients. You don’t “water” a plant growing hydroponically. You’ll keep the water reservoir full. A Hydroponic Growing System includes an indicator of current water level or it alerts you when the water level drops below a certain point.

A Self-Watering Container System also holds water in a reservoir. The water wicks up into the soil from the reservoir below the soil. You simply keep the water reservoir full. If your Self-Watering Container System lacks a water level indicator, become familiar with the pace of water use by your plants and top off the reservoir often enough to prevent the reservoir from running dry. The self-watering container prevents you from overfilling the reservoir by allowing excess water to spill out.

Here are some tips for watering your tomato plant if you plant it outdoors. You may find this information valuable one day for your tomato plant growing indoors.

Water your tomato plant early in the day (6, 7), providing about 1-1½ inches per week. (7, 8) Don’t water the leaves; apply the water to the soil directly.

Preparing the Best Soil for Your Tomato Plant

Growing tomato plants in the ground means setting up your garden where the soil is already favorable or amending the soil where you want to place your garden. Growing tomato plants indoors is much simpler.

Your outdoor tomato plants prefer loamy, well-drained soil. (7, 8, 9) Lacking that, you’ll need to compensate by mixing in compost, peat moss, or some other organic material. (8) Adjust the soil to a pH between 6.2 and 6.8, which is slightly acidic. (9)

Even after you find that perfect loamy, well-drained soil, you’ll need to rotate where you plant tomatoes to stay ahead of diseases.

If you are growing tomatoes in a raised bed, you can follow instructions from the book, All New Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew [affiliate link], for setting it up. Growing tomatoes in a raised bed comes closest to what you’ll experience growing them indoors, at least as far as preparing the soil is concerned.

You’ll save much time and disappointment preparing the soil for an indoor tomato garden. A Hydroponic Growing System does not even use soil. Now, that’s a time-saver! And the Self-Watering Container System uses a specialized potting mix you assemble.

Choosing Your Tomato Plant

You are choosing a tomato plant to be grown on a kitchen counter (Hydroponic Growing System) or on the floor (Self-Watering Container System). You may have a vertical garden such as the Gardyn 3 [affiliate link] or Gardyn 4 [affiliate link], which are Hydroponic Growing Systems that take up about two square feet of floor space, but are tall, so plants grow up the side of a column. Select a variety of tomato plant that best suits your indoor garden environment.

How do you select the “right” tomato plant for your indoor garden? You can first consider what you want to do with the tomatoes you harvest.

If you’re going to eat the tomatoes in salads, cherry tomatoes work best. If you’re wanting to can them, consider growing Roma tomatoes or something similar. Tomato slices for hamburgers typically come from a full-size tomato. Perhaps you want to eat a specific variety of tomato. Assemble your garden to fit the needs of that type of tomato plant, meaning you’ll choose whether you go with a Hydroponic Growing System or a Self-Watering Container System.

Or, you can limit your options to indeterminate tomato plants that provide you a consistent harvest of fruits for the life of the mature plant. This is an indoor garden, after all, and the point (unless you are canning) is to have a steady supply of food all year long. If you want to eat three salads a week, you want an indoor tomato plant garden capable of supplying six ripe cherry tomatoes three times per week.

Determinate or Indeterminate or Something Else

When researching what type of tomato to plant, you’ll inevitably come across the terms Determinate and Indeterminate. You need to know the difference when growing tomatoes indoors because you’ll need to manage the height and breadth of the plants you grow. You also typically but not necessarily want a consistent harvest spread over a long time.

Determinate tomato plants grow to a set height and stop. They typically produce one crop all at once. They don’t need to be staked or actively pruned. They produce fruit early. (9, 10, 11, 12)

Indeterminate tomato plants are more like vines, spreading out and growing quite large. They produce fruit continuously. You’ll want to prune suckers. The plant likely requires staking to support the vines. They take longer to begin producing fruit. (9, 10, 11, 12)

Tomato plants also may be categorized as semi-determinate or parthenocarpic. You can think of a semi-determinate tomato plant as a small indeterminate. Parthenocarpic are a specialty variation not likely to show up in a typical indoor garden. (11)

Tomato suckers are also called laterals or side shoots. Suckers are the new growth that appears in the leaf axile between the stem and a leaf. If left to grow, a sucker can become another strong stem with flowers and fruit. Tomato suckers can directly compete with the main stem for nutrients, water, and sunlight, thus weakening the main stem.

Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden (Ohio State University Extension)

You might want to grow a determinate tomato plant indoors to get a very specific variety of tomato or because a neat, compact bush plant fits the decor as opposed to a sprawling mess of vines. The downside, unless your plant provides more than one harvest of tomatoes, is that you start over once the plant stops growing fruits. Being indoors, you may actually get multiple harvests given the indoors environment is favorable for a long plant life. Experimentation will reveal how your determinate tomato plants produce.

You may want to experiment with growing interesting varieties of tomato plants or perhaps you just want a summary of a particular type of tomato. Rutgers University hosts a page categorizing an overwhelming number of tomato varieties. You can arrange the list of tomatoes by variety, shape, or skin color. Some entries include pictures. It’s quite informative.

For growing a garden indoors, as mentioned above, an indeterminate probably serves you best, as it produces a consistent supply of fruits.

Fertilizing Your Tomato Plant

You will fertilize your in-home tomato plant. However, the instructions you follow differ from those for growing tomatoes outdoors or in a greenhouse.

Feeding Plants in a Hydroponic Growing System

You’ll find fertilizing plants you grow in your Hydroponic Growing System an easy matter. Almost every manufacturer includes the kit needed to start seeds. A few manufacturers also include seeds, but most expect you to provide your own. The manufacturer includes in the kit the nutrients you’ll mix into the water you pour into the tank. The nutrients can be liquid or pills or powder you mix with water. You simply follow the instructions for when to add nutrients.

Now, you may find the plants you’re growing in your Hydroponic Growing System do better if you adapt the schedule or formula for mixing the nutrients. For example, I have a tomato plant growing in an AeroGarden Harvest 360 [affiliate link], and as a mature plant, it drinks a great deal of water. I fill the reservoir (it’s smaller than the reservoir in the Bounty mentioned earlier) every other day. That means the nutrients get used up quicker. So I add AeroGarden nutrients more often than the recommended two weeks. The tomato plant seems happier.

You can buy nutrients from several reputable providers [affiliate link]. Start your Hydroponic Growing System with the nutrients supplied by the manufacturer to get the hang of growing plants indoors. At some point, though, try nutrients from other providers to see if you improve your crop yield and plant life span.

Feeding Plants in a Self-Watering Container System

Your Self-Watering Container System closely resembles a raised bed in how you fertilize your plants. But there are differences.

You’ll fertilize your plants according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer of the self-watering container growing your tomato plants. The EarthBox website has a wonderful summary describing how to grow tomatoes in an EarthBox Original self-watering container [affiliate link].

Transplanting Your Tomato Plant

When you grow plants outdoors, germinating seeds in a seed starter tray allows you to get a six to eight week jump on the growing season. For your indoor garden, where you don’t worry about frost, germinating seeds in a seed starter tray allows you to select the strongest plants to transplant to your Hydroponic Growing System or Self-Watering Container System.

A seed starting tray with a heat mat and built-in grow light like the Vivosun 40-cell seed starter tray [affiliate link] keeps the seeds warm and the seedlings nourished.

When you transplant a tomato to the outdoors garden, place the roots deep enough in the soil so some branches end up under the surface of the soil. Roots will grow from from the underground section of the trunk.

If your tomato plant has a long trunk with no branches between the roots and the lowest branch, set the roots low enough in the ground to allow you to lay flat a section of the trunk under the soil, where it will grow more roots. (6)

Since a Self-Watering Container System uses a modified potting mix as its grow media, the rules for outdoors transplanting generally apply here as well. If you start tomato seeds in a seed starter tray, you can choose the strongest seedling to transplant. Set the tomato plant lower into the soil to facilitate the growth of new roots from the trunk.

When transplanting to a Hydroponic Growing System, you first want to clean off all the soil from the roots. Soil has no place in your Hydroponic Growing System. Cut a vertical slit in the grow plug, open the plug at the cut and carefully set the seedling inside. Arrange the roots to encourage growth through the bottom of the plug. Allow longer roots to pass through. Then just insert the plug into a cone and place the cone into a hole in the tray.

Storing Your Tomatoes

At this point, you’ve grown some awesome tomatoes in your Hydroponic Growing System or Self-Watering Container System. How long can you keep your harvest before you eat it?

Ripe tomatoes may be stored for a week and maybe two weeks if you hold the temperature between 45°F and 55°F. (8, 13) Tomatoes will keep on the kitchen counter at room temperature for several days.

You can harvest mature green tomatoes and ripen them in a paper bag at a temperature between 55°F and 65°F. (8, 10, 11, 13) This might be important to know if your plants growing outdoors face an impending killing frost, but you’re growing your plants indoors. You should be able to ripen your tomatoes up to the day you eat them. That is why you garden indoors.

You actually have a good opportunity to do A-B comparisons, since you control all the environmental variables for the tomatoes you grow. Pick equally mature tomatoes from your indoor garden and place one on the kitchen counter, one in your refrigerator, and one in a warm, dark, humid place to see which tomato remains edible the longest.

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Cool Things To Know About Tomatoes

Benefits (and Risks) of Eating Tomatoes

You’ve probably already decided to grow tomato plants indoors, which is why you’ve arrived at this article. However, if you need just a little more encouragement to grow tomatoes, check out this National Library of Medicine article, Tomatoes: An Extensive Review of the Associated Health Impacts of Tomatoes and Factors That Can Affect Their Cultivation.

The article lists a many health benefits of eating tomatoes, but also some risks. Interestingly, many of the risks involve the application of pesticides and herbicides used to grow healthy-looking tomatoes for sale, something growing your own food indoors helps you avoid.

Origin of Tomatoes

If you’re the type that loves to know the “behind-the-scenes” history of things, check out this Molecular Biology and Evolution article, Genomic Evidence for Complex Domestication History of the Cultivated Tomato in Latin America. The article details the history of the plants that became the tomato you know today. It’s just cool to know these things!

Key Takeaways

You learned to two exciting tomato gardening systems, the Hydroponic Growing System and Self-Watering Container System. If you want tomatoes as quickly as possible, the Hydroponic Growing System is your best bet. The Self-Watering Container System provides the flexibility of growing large tomato plants and large tomato varieties. Both systems offer great possibilities for your in-home garden.

You also learned how to care for your in-home tomato garden. What works for outdoor gardens does not always apply to indoor gardens, even an indoor garden bed. If you approach your indoor garden with a spirit of adventurism, you’ll never be disappointed. Everything you learn you can apply to the next garden, which you can start immediately.

Before you go, take a moment to check out a few pages from other sites. The information is well-presented and informative, and you’ll find it helps you grow better tomato plants.

You have enough knowledge now to start your indoor tomato garden. Return to the top of the page to refresh your memory about starting a garden in a Hydroponic Growing System or a Self-Watering Container System. You’ll be eating fresh tomatoes you grew right in your own home in no time!

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13	Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden