Is Your Tomato Plants Too Big

How to transplant tomato seedlings into larger pots when you can’t put them in the garden

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I still have a few weeks before I can safely plant the tomatoes in the garden. However, the tomatoes have outgrown their pots so I need to transplant them into bigger containers.

How to transplant tomatoes

At this point in a tomato plant’s growth, it is important to plant them in a large enough container to allow them to grow deep roots, but not so big that it makes transplanting more difficult later. Ideally, when I am ready to put the plants in the ground, the roots need to fill the container so that the plant easily slides out of the pot. If the plants haven’t grown enough to fill the pot, the soil around the tomato plant will spill out everywhere. So judging the size of the transplant container is important. Also, be sure that each pot has proper drainage because you don’t want the plants to become water-logged.

Once you have the containers that you need to transplant your tomatoes, you will need to get good soil to plant your tomatoes in. You don’t want to transplant into the same kind of soil in which you started your seedlings, nor do you want to use just garden soil. When I transplant into larger containers, I like to use a combination of the…