Organic Tomato Gardening
Visualize sinking your pearly white’s in to a freshly picked, wonderfully ripe, sweet and organically produced tomato, with the juice running down your chin. Yummy!
Through organic tomato gardening, you’ll be able to leave behind those shop-bought tomatoes with tough skins, and bland, pale flesh. Whenever tomatoes are home grown organically and therefore are naturally ripened, you can pluck a tomato off your own plant and eat it without washing it to get rid of chemicals.
Nowadays people are becoming progressively more aware and worried about the importance of their health. As a result of this global change in awareness, a lot more people right around the world are selecting to explore the alternative of growing their own organic veg and fruits, including organic tomato gardening. Tomatoes will grow in just about any kind of soil and after the frosts are gone.
Organic tomato gardening in your backyard is very simple:
First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, ensuring it is in a sunny position and away from trees, which have a tendency to rob the soil of the nutrition you will need for your plants. Tomatoes like six to eight hrs of sun each day.
Second, dig over the ground and apply some well rotted compost and manure. If you don’t curently have any on hand, you can buy bags of compost and manure from your Garden Nursery. Rake over your garden bed and leave for a week or so.
Third is to decide which variety of tomato you want to grow. The little cocktail ones that do well in garden pots, or the plum shaped ones, or perhaps even the big beefsteak types. There are lots of varieties to select from that are suitable for organic tomato gardening.
Additionally, you’ll need some garden stakes to support your plants as they grow. You can grow from seed or buy seedlings which will save you some time – that’s what I like to do.
Right after visiting your Garden Nursery to select the seedlings you need for your organic tomato gardening, the fourth step is to plant them out, sticking to the instructions that come with the container. Usually you’d plant your tomatoes about two to two and a half feet apart and hammer in a stake alongside to support your plant as they grow heavy and laden with fruit.
Almost done – now you need to water your plants in well, then stand back and admire your own handiwork.
Be sure you keep the ground damp although not soggy and finally when the plants are about six weeks old, it’s a good time to then add cow tea.
This is produced by placing about a quarter of a bucketful of cow manure into an old used bucket, fill it up with water, stir and leave to “brew” for a week or two. Pour off about a quarter of the ‘tea’ right into a watering can, fill with water and apply to the tomatoes.
You will be surprised at how well your tomatoes will love cow tea and respond. Stand back and await your first batch of organic tomatoes to ripen. Save the rest of the cow tea to use once again in another two to three weeks, always diluting it, or water it into other garden beds.
My personal favorite tomato recipe is to toast some bread, spread with butter, then add slices of tomato plus some freshly chopped basil. Season with some salt and pepper. Enjoy – this is simply delicious! Absolutely nothing beats the fresh, full flavor of home grown tomatoes from organic tomato gardening.
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Start your own organic veg garden today, so you can receive an abundant yield of the very nutritious and freshest organic vegetables, including tomatoes, imaginable. Isn’t it time you ate the very best vegetables and fruit? For the freshest as well as tastiest tomatoes in the world, begin organic tomato gardening TODAY!
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