How to grow tomatoes on a windowsill?

Before growing tomatoes on the windowsill, you need to find a variety that can survive indoor conditions and produce a good harvest. Of course, if possible, it is better to place even such varieties of tomatoes on a balcony or loggia in established heat, so that they can enjoy fresh air and outdoor conditions.

It is difficult to grow tomatoes on window sills in winter; heating, lack of fresh air and good lighting will lead to the plant developing poorly and the fruits not being tasty. Therefore, you need to start growing tomatoes on the windowsill in early spring.

How to grow tomatoes on a windowsill? Here are simple instructions that will help you get your own tomato harvest, even if you don’t have your own piece of land, but have window sills.

1. Suitable varieties for the windowsill are cherry, special balcony red, Oak, Florida Petit, which do not need large volume pots, as well as De Bario, Garten Freunde, Ox's heart, which however will need large planting containers.
2. Pour soil into an eraser container, water it and distribute the seeds, sprinkling them a little with earth, cover the container with a transparent lid or glass. Before sowing the seeds, it is better to keep them in a solution of a growth stimulator. Make sure that the soil does not dry out too much.
3. After the seeds germinate and four true leaves appear, the tomato seedlings need to be transplanted into separate pots; for short-growing ones, pots with a volume of three to five liters are suitable, and for tall tomatoes, you need to choose pots with a volume of at least eight liters. Two centimeters of expanded clay and sand are placed at the bottom of the pots, then soil is poured and a tomato sprout is placed in the middle. Each plant can be sprayed with Epin solution or another product with a similar effect.
4. The pots should be placed on the windowsill that is best lit, protected from too intense heat from the radiator using some kind of screen.
5. You need to water the tomatoes when the top layer of the soil mixture is visible drying, the water should not be cold, but settled and warm, it is necessary to remove the stepsons that appear in the axils of the main leaves.
6. You should constantly ensure that the tomatoes are healthy and ensure that pests do not appear on them. Once every ten days, tomatoes can be fed moderately with organic or mineral fertilizers.
7. Tie the plant stem to the stick in a timely manner so that the stem does not break or bend under the weight of the fruit.