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!
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