What is the best way to take care of a Beef Steak Tomato Plant?
Question:watering? feed? sunlight to shade?
Answers:
Tomatoes are sun loving, at least 8 hours per day, preferrably the morning sun. Water deeply but make sure you don't get the soil muddy. If you can, fertilize with a long lasting balanced fertilizer when you plant it. Then leave it alone. Too much fertilizer can ruin your soil for the future. Stake or cage your plant so it doesn't fall over and pinch off the "suckers" as they try to grow if you want large tomatoes.
6 hours of sunlight per day. After the plant is established, try to do deep waterings less frequently, instead of frequent sprinklings of water. Use already broken down compost and some broken down manure (horse, cow or chicken). About once per week give a water with a seaweed fertilizer. Plant some basil near by to help repell bugs. If one of your tomato plants looks a little sickly, keep it there as bugs attack a weaker plant first. Always remove dead leaves and dispose away from the alive plant. Try to stay away from chemical fertilizers as they force the plant to fruit and grow too fast resulting in a weak plant and tasteless fruit.
Keep soil moist, fertilize once a week and put it in full sun. If you have not planted it yet, here is what I would do. Peel off the very bottom leaves and put that part all the way in the ground it will give you a sturdier plant. Good Luck
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