Meet 14-year-old Jacob who grows 7,000 tomato plants for his business

Jacob Mann, 14, from Norwich, England, has turned his love of gardening into a growing business selling tomato plants, growing kits and tomato merchandise. It all started from humble beginnings with a few seedlings and a home-made bicycle trailer, and has grown into The Tomato Cart, growing thousands of plants each year with customers from far and wide, even beyond the UK.

Jacob now cultivates up to 7,000 tomato plants to meet demand, with his products attracting buyers as far away as Australia, BBC reports. He started with a family gardening competition during the Covid pandemic.14-year-old Jacob turned a gardening hobby into The Tomato Cart Jacob's interest in growing plants developed during the pandemic, when his family decided to turn their vegetable patch into a friendly competition.

While the other plots struggled, his continued to flourish, giving him an early indication that gardening was something he enjoyed and could do well.In a case study published by The Shropshire Seaweed Company, Jacob explained that the experience encouraged him to take growing more seriously.