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We don't just write about tomatoes. We grow them for a living.
For more than 20 years, our days have been spent in commercial vegetable fields in Florida: sandy soil, brutal heat, and pest pressure most gardeners never see. We've tested the films, mixes and spacings, and learned which ones pay off.
GardenBoss takes those professional methods and scales them down to your raised bed, patio pots or backyard rows.
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USDA ripeness stagesWe pick at Breaker, and here's why.
Staked tomatoes on reflective mulch, a Florida farm technique that works in backyards too.
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Florida Tomato Planting Calendar and Grower's Checklist
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Plant in the right week. Then follow the checklist.
Florida grows tomatoes in two seasons, and most advice online was written for one. This guide gives you the planting windows for North, Central and South Florida, a pre-season checklist, a stage-by-stage season checklist, and the fixes for the handful of problems that cause most failures. Written from 20+ years of commercial fields, scaled down to a bed or a pot.
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