{"id":2144,"date":"2018-03-21T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2018-03-21T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:15:34","slug":"planting-tomatoes-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/planting-tomatoes-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Only a Couple Days Later Than Last Year for Planting Tomatoes Indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a good day to get started planting my tomato seeds and hopefully some others as well.\u00a0 I did get all my tomato seeds planted in the usual containers that I use every season.\u00a0 Like all the other seasons I stuck with the tomatoes that worked: cherry, Roma, and steakhouse (beefsteak).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I only got one container of watermelon seeds planted because I actually ran out of room underneath the lights.\u00a0 My tomatoes usually take up all the space under these artificial lights.<\/p>\n<p>Since most of the flower seeds are starting to sprout I can now use this space to start planting more seeds such as melons, peppers, eggplants, and many more.\u00a0 For now I am going to give my flower seeds some more time to sprout and grow just a little bit more and then start planting these other seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/first-post-2018\/\">seeds that were planted earlier<\/a> in the season have pretty much all sprouted.\u00a0 I am just waiting on my celery\u00a0 seeds to germinate which can take a little bit more time than my lettuce, brussel sprouts, and broccoli seeds.<\/p>\n<p>This time I decided on five of beefsteak tomatoes, five cherry tomatoes, and only 24 Roma tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2145 size-medium\" title=\"Containers With Tomato Seeds\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9125-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Tomato Seeds Planted Indoors\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9125-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9125-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9125-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_9125-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a good day to get started planting my tomato seeds and hopefully some others as well.\u00a0 I did get all my tomato seeds planted in the usual containers that I use every season.\u00a0 Like all the other seasons I stuck with the tomatoes that worked: cherry, Roma, and &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,169,167,28,168,200,110],"tags":[42,334,172,199,30],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-420","category-beefsteak","category-cherry-tomatoes-2","category-planting-indoors","category-roma-tomatoes-2","category-steakhouse","category-tomatoes-2","tag-cherry-tomatoes","tag-planting-indoors","tag-roma-tomatoes","tag-steakhouse-tomatoes","tag-tomatoes","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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