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Follow these few simple steps and grow garden tomato plants much bigger than average that bear bigger and better tomatoes. What type of tomato plants you buy means a lot in the size of your tomatoes so keep that in mind when purchasing your plants. The basis behind this technique is all in how you water the plants that makes a world of difference in their growth pattern.

Instructions

Things you'll need:

Post Hole Diggers

3 or 4 inch PVC Pipe

Drill and bit

Good rich soil

Potting Soil

Plant Food

Tomato Cages

1 For each tomato plant that you want to use this method for, you will need a

piece of 3 or 4 inch PVC pipe about 3 feet long. Take your drill and a 1/4" bit

and bore your first hole about 1 inch from the end of the pipe and then measure up

the pipe about 8 to 12 inches and bore a hole there. You need a line of holes bored about

1 inch apart all the way around the pipe Then move down 1 inch towards the end of the

pipe where your first hole is and repeat the procedure until you have 8 to 12 lines of holes

all the way around that end of the pipe.This end with the holes will go in the ground.

2 Take your post hole diggers and dig the hole where your tomato plants are

going about one foot wide and 12 to 18 inches deep. If you are digging in good

rich soil you can use the same dirt but mix it with potting soil and chicken

manure to backfill your hole. Good soft and rich dirt is what you want.

3 Now you want to dig the hole for your three inch PVC pipe just off to one side of your plant

hole and just deep enough to where your top holes are just below ground level,

which should make your pipe hole about ten or twelve inches deep. The idea is

you water your garden tomato plants through the pipe and the water comes out

the holes, right at and just below the plants roots.

4 Set your pipe in the hole just beside your tomato plants hole and fill in around it

with the same dirt mixture. Set your plant in the bigger hole. Water the plant

through the pipe. The water will fill the pipe then slowly drain out the holes

delivering the water down deep at the roots every time. There should be about

two feet of pipe sticking up out of the ground.

5 Once the tomato plants start growing good set your wire tomato cages around

them for protection and support. Mix some miracle grow and water with that

mixture every couple of weeks or so. An old man, which was a good friend of

mine, taught me this method. Believe it or not, I have watched him step up on a

ladder to pick his tomatoes.