Growing 10,000 Pounds of Organic Tomatoes in a High Tunnel Greenhouse

If you've ever wondered how to grow tomatoes from seed, this is the video for you! We've spent the past YEAR filming EVERY STEP of our tomato production cycle, including sowing tomato seeds, hardening off tomato seedlings, transplanting tomatoes, trellising, pruning, harvesting, AND MORE! And to make tomato farming even easier, we've created the Heifer USA Organic Tomato Growing Guide, a FREE resource on growing tomatoes for beginners but all are encouraged to download and use our professional advice, growing calendars, planting schedules, useful terminology, and all the resources we've included.

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⏱ TIMECODES ⏱
00:00 Introduction to Growing Tomatoes
00:58 Get Started Growing Tomatoes
02:32 Sowing Tomato Seeds
06:31 How to Germinate Tomato Seeds
08:34 Growing Tomatoes in the Nursery
09:58 Hardening Off Tomato Seedlings
11:25 Preparing High Tunnel for Tomatoes
13:43 Transplanting Tomatoes
15:35 How to Trellis Tomatoes
19:32 How to Prune Tomatoes
22:56 Tomato Disease Management & Prevention
22:55 Watering Tomatoes
25:53 Harvesting Your Tomatoes
27:37 Storing Harvested Tomatoes

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