Seed Starting Roma VF Tomatoes

Starting Roma VF tomatoes from seeds!

I was going through my pictures for another post & I realized I never told you about our Roma VF seed starting!

We planted our old seeds on April 15th & a week later, nothing was happening.

I figured our seeds weren't going to produce anything of value, so I wanted a back up plan. But, as I posted last week, those seeds ended up sprouting!  They were just super late coming.

While we were at Home Depot getting a few supplies for our pergola, I browsed the seed area.  I'm a huge fan of Roma tomatoes & I came across the Roma VF variety.  I decided to give it a try!

When I was planting these Roma tomatoes, I decided to do something a little different.  I planted them in cups!

For some reason, cups are easier for me to deal with than flats.  We then gathered our supplies & started planting!  I also found this seed dropper at Home Depot that made planting a little easier.  Tomato seeds are super small & tedious to plant!

We ended up with 30 cups with a couple tomato seeds in each cup!  The pictures above show what the cups looked like when we first planted them.  Here's what the Roma tomato seedlings look like now:

They're slightly smaller than our other seedlings, but they're coming along!  As you can see, these Roma tomatoes are also getting a little leggy.  It will be easy to add soil to these cups, though!  

I may need to thin a couple cups out because all the tomatoes decided to come up in one area!  I tried to put the seeds on opposite sides of the cup, but it didn't always work out that way!

With the old seedlings coming up & these new Roma VF seedlings, it looks like I'm going to have a LOT of tomato plants!  Here's to hoping they all survive!