Growing Tomatoes On A BoatGrowing tomatoes on a boat, like any other way of growing tomatoes require a few things,and if you tend them well you're usually rewarded with an excellent harvest of tasty vegetables. But what if you live on a boat? Well, good news: if you take proper care, you can grow your own beautiful tomatoes on your boat. 2. Use seedlings, not seeds. It takes too long and too much care to nurture the seeds into seedlings that you can then plant, and a nautical environment is not conducive to healthy seedlings nor does a boat normally have space for an appropriate greenhouse. If you start with little plants, though, screening out unhealthy ones, you'll quickly have hardy tomato bushes that will bear fruit surprisingly quickly. 3. Don't be shy about using fertilizer. You're not in a contest to see who can grow the best tomatoes here – instead, you're trying to have healthy plants in an environment that is not normally the home for healthy plants. This is not the time to be a purist. Growing tomatoes in buckets is one of the easiest ways to overcome difficult soil and lack of space. 4. Water your tomatoes a little extra. The air on board ship dries soil more than you might expect, and the real secret to great tomatoes is proper watering. Try to water your plants every night when the boat is still so that the soil is evenly saturated, and pick up some moisture crystals at a gardening store so your soil will remain moist even when you can't pay close attention. 5. Be sure they're getting adequate sunlight. Besides water, tomatoes need, really really need, good sunlight. You have an advantage in a boat in that you can simply turn the boat around to get them out of the shade. Also, space your tomato plants out about a food apart so that they get adequate sun on all sides. 6. Protect your tomatoes from extreme temperatures, and from the wind. This is probably the hardest thing to do when growing tomatoes on a boat, because you almost certainly have to grow them on deck and, well, you can't really avoid wind there. You can minimize the problem by purchasing a plastic greenhouse cover and installing it around the plants; this has the added advantage of protecting your plants when the temperatures get too low.
7. Fasten the pots down. You do not want your beautiful tomatoes to spill all over the deck when your boat makes a sudden move! Use ropes, 2x4s, or weights to fasten your tomato pots in place. 8. When growing tomatoes on a boat,don't expect a massive amount of tomatoes, but be prepared if you have a bumper crop. Tomatoes will probably have to be picked a little earlier on a boat, but they don't keep well for more than three days. Be prepared to can, make sauce, or give some of your tomatoes away when harvest comes around.so ,its not that hard to grow tomatoes on a boat.
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