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How to Plant and Grow Tomatoes

Tomatoes are the favorite vegetable for home growing. We carry many unique seed varieties that you can start indoors (they germinate easily) and grow your own transplants. Wallace's also carries many varieties in 4-packs and 4" pots that are ready to plant today.

Select a disease resistant variety like Better Boy, Big Boy, Celebrity or Rutgers.

Choose a spot in full sun and prepare the soil by digging it deeply with a spade and mixing in Cottonbur or mushroom compost.

Add a good vegetable fertilizer such as all organic Espoma Tomato Tone.

Plant transplants deeply. If they're leggy snip off the lower leaves, make a little trench with the trowel, lay the plant in sideways, and bend the stem up gently. Roots will form all along the buried stem.

Choose a staking system (such as a tomato cage or trellis).

Water deeply and continue to irrigate so the soil stays evenly moist.

Choose a spot in full sun and prepare the soil by digging in Cottonbur compost. Don't forget to put down Preen Vegetable Garden Weed Preventer to prevent weeds from growing in your garden. Preen for vegetable gardening is all organic and prevents weeds for 4-6 weeks.

If you don't have an open space in the ground to plant, put your tomatoes in large containers on your deck or patio. Be sure to use fresh potting soil like Wallace's Container Mix. Add a support like a tomato cage early on so the plant can grow into it. Keep your plants well watered and fertilize regularly. Wallace's recommends Espoma Tomato Tone or Mater Magic for tomatoes. Both are great fertilizers that add a little extra calcium that the plants need.

By midsummer you'll be harvesting tomatoes for salads, burgers on the grill, salsa and all the other fresh tastes of a midwestern summer.

Wallace's grows all of its own roses from Bare root plants. Only the best stock is selected from Jackson and Perkins and Weeks Roses, two of the top rose breeders in the world. The roses are planted in March and grown here at Wallace's for you.

Check out these new and award winning varieties.

Also, don't miss the new shrub roses in our Easy Elegance Collection. Easy Elegance Roses were bred in Minnesota and easily withstand cold Zone 4 winters. They are even backed up by a Two Year Guarantee. Wallaces carries these great varieties in the Easy Elegance Collection.

Wallace's recommends planting your roses with Cottonburr compost. Take the hassle out of rose care with Bayer All in One Rose and Flower Care . This product is a fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide all in one. Pour over the base of the plant for 6 weeks of protection.

Every garden needs some roses and these hardy varieties are a can't miss addition to your landscape.