3 Tricks for Sweeter Homegrown Tomatoes (After 50)

What you'll learn

1. Water deep, not often. Trick one. Water deeply, but less often. Shallow daily watering makes watery, bland fruit. A long soak twice a week pushes roots down and concentrates the sugars.
2. Cut the nitrogen. Trick two. Ease off the nitrogen once flowers appear. Too much nitrogen grows leaves, not flavor. Switch to a low-nitrogen, higher-potassium feed.
3. Let them ripen on the vine. Trick three. Leave them on the vine an extra two or three days past red. That final stretch is where the sweetness builds.

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