Pre-growing tomatoes and peppers on the windowsill

From June (until September), the tomato plants must be regularly "cut out", that is, remove all the side shoots arising in the leaf axils. At the same time, various care measures are necessary: if necessary, improve fertilization, continuously tie up the plants and re-fertilize several times.

Tomatoes can be propagated quite easily via self-harvested seed. The only prerequisite is that seed-stable varieties are available which pass on all typical characteristics unchanged to the offspring and do not - like F1 hybrids - split strongly in the subsequent generation and produce very non-uniform daughter plants, usually with poorer fruit and growth characteristics.

In August, the tomato harvest is in full swing. Now, in order to ensure the development of healthy and tasty fruit until the end of the season, various care work is necessary.