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Individual plants are transplanted when the weather warms up to between 70 and 75˚F. (Image credit: Getty/mikroman6) How to transplant tomato seedlings to their final locationĪ young tomato plant ready for transplanting into its final spot should be between nine and 12 inches tall. Ruth warns that, as with pricking out any seedlings, it is vital that you make sure you are holding the young seedling by a leaf between the fingertips and ‘never holding the fragile stem as you might damage it which could kill the plant’.

Make sure the leaves are dry before night falls, as if they are still wet they are more likely to rot or ‘damp off’.

Check them every day, and give them a light watering as necessary.

Do not firm them in – just water them in, gently.

Plant them so that the cotyledons are sitting just above the surface of the compost.

Hold the seedling by a cotyledon (seed leaf) and ease it out of its seed tray or pot, using a dibber or pencil.

Make a hole deep enough to take the roots and the seedling without curling.

Fill the pots to the brim with the compost.

Ruth Hayes, gardening expert for Homes & Gardens advises a simple four-step plan for potting up tomato seedlings: Transplant seedlings from their seed trays or modules into larger pots that are 3-4 inches in diameter, and use a good-quality potting compost. Tomato seedlings should be first transplanted when they are between two and four inches tall. The process is a fairly simple one. (Image credit: Getty/Kurt Brodbeck / EyeEm) How to transplant tomato seedlings from trays to pots