Vegetables

Tomato Planting Calculator

Solanum lycopersicum

Everything you need to plan Tomato: recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect a harvest. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.

At a glance

Recommended spacing
24″
Range 12–36″
Planting pattern
Rows
Time to first production
65–85 days from transplanting
Succession planting
Recommended
Every 35 days
Start indoors
6 weeks before
before transplanting
Production pattern
Cut-and-come-again

Plan your Tomato beds

Prefilled with Tomato's recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.

Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 24″Range 12–36″

Your plan

75
Total plants
25 per row × 3 rows
Seeds to start (10% buffer)
83
72-cell trays needed
2
128-cell trays needed
1

More Tomato planning

Planning notes

  • Corralling
  • Landscape fabric

Cut-and-come-again. A planting keeps producing new stems over a relatively long harvest period when it is picked regularly, so successive plantings are usually spaced farther apart.

  • Corralling for structural support is commonly used.
  • Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.

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