Getting Tomato Seeds Set in Plastic Containers for a May Planting

The month of March is when I like to do the bulk of my seed planting indoors which I started to do earlier in the month with my cool weather crop. I also like to plant my tomatoes early as well because they are simple to transplant and easy to plant into plastic containers. This past weekend I planted all the tomato seeds that I purchased this season into recycled plastic cups.

This season I am growing two new types of tomatoes instead of the usual steakhouse and supersauce that I have been growing for some time. I am keeping the supersauce since it happens to be a great way for making sauce, but I am growing different types of beefsteak tomatoes.

I decided on choosing Burpee’s super beefsteak and big boy tomatoes for the year. Many years ago I had big boy tomatoes in the garden and they seemed to be quite reliable and decided that this year I would go back to planting them. The super beefsteak is just a larger than normal beefsteak tomato, but not as large as the steakhouse tomatoes I have grown in previous years.

I planted the super beefsteak and big boy tomatoes into three containers hoping that I can get at least three plants of each of them. I can’t forget about cherry tomatoes because these are my favorite and I planted Chadwick cherry seeds into four plastic containers. I think four plants of cherry tomatoes is enough to get a decent harvest.

As for the supersauce seeds I ended up planting them into thirty containers. This is more than previous years and usually I just stick to 25 or so. The packet of seeds I received had a little more than 25 that are usually in these packets so I decided on going with thirty seeds instead of 25. Maybe this year I will have more tomatoes for sauce making.

Since I ran out of room on the windowsill I had to place all of them under fluorescent lights. I do this every year for my tomatoes anyways. Out of all the seeds I place under the lights tomatoes tend to sprout better than others.