Organic Tomato Gardening
Picture sinking your pearly white’s into a home picked, wonderfully ripe, delicious and organically harvested tomato, with all the juice running down your chin. Yummy!
Through organic tomato gardening, you can say goodbye to those shop-bought tomatoes with tough skins, and bland, pale flesh. When tomatoes are home grown organically and are naturally ripened, you can pluck a tomato off your plant and eat it without even washing it to get rid of chemical substances.
In recent times everyone is becoming increasingly conscious and concerned about the importance of their health and wellbeing. Due to this world-wide change in awareness, more and more people right around the world are choosing to explore the alternative of growing their own organic veg and fruits, including organic tomato gardening. Tomatoes will grow in virtually any type of soil and after the frosts are gone.
Organic tomato gardening in your back garden is very straightforward:
First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, making sure it is in a sunny spot and away from trees, which tend to rob the soil of the nutrition you need for your crops. Tomatoes like six to eight hours of sun each day.
Second, dig over the soil 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 small cocktail ones that do well in garden pots, or the plum shaped ones, or maybe even the big beefsteak ones. There are plenty of varieties to choose from that are suitable for organic tomato gardening.
Additionally, you’ll need a few 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 going to 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 would 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, after that stand back and admire your own handiwork.
Make 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 add some cow tea.
This is made by putting 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 up 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, add some slices of tomato plus some freshly chopped basil. Season with some salt and pepper. Enjoy – this is simply delicious! Nothing beats the fresh, full flavor of home grown tomatoes from organic tomato gardening.
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Begin your own organic veg garden today, so you can receive an abundant yield of the most nutritious and freshest organic vegetables, including tomatoes, you can possibly imagine. Isn’t it time you ate the very best vegetables and fruit? For the freshest and tastiest tomatoes on the planet, start organic tomato gardening TODAY!
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