26th Mar 2010
Organic Tomato Gardening
Visualize sinking your pearly white’s into a freshly picked, wonderfully ripe, delicious and organically grown tomato, with all the juice running down your chin. Yummy!
With organic tomato gardening, you can 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 plant and eat it without even washing it to get rid of chemical substances.
Nowadays everyone is becoming increasingly conscious and concerned with the importance of their health. Because of this world-wide shift in awareness, a lot 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 just about any kind of soil and after the frosts are gone.
Organic tomato gardening in your back garden 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 nutrients you will need for your plants. Tomatoes like 6 to 8 hrs of sun each day.
Second, dig over the soil and apply some well rotted compost and manure. If you don’t already have any on hand, you can purchase bags of compost and manure from your Garden Nursery. Rake over your garden bed and leave for a week or so.
Third is to choose which variety of tomato you would like to grow. The little cocktail ones that do well in garden containers, or the plum shaped ones, or perhaps even the big beefsteak types. There are lots of varieties to select from which are suitable for organic tomato gardening.
Furthermore, 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.
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’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 - right now you need to water your plants in well, then stand back and enjoy your own handiwork.
Make sure you keep the ground damp but not soggy and finally when the plants are about 6 weeks old, it is 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’ into a watering can, fill with water and apply to the tomatoes.
You’ll 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. Conserve the rest of the cow tea to apply 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 is better than the fresh, full flavor of home grown tomatoes from organic tomato gardening.
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Begin your organic veg garden today, so you can get an abundant yield of the most 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 on the planet, start organic tomato gardening TODAY!
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