Organic Tomato Gardening
Envision sinking your teeth into a newly picked, beautifully ripe, sweet and organically produced tomato, with all 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 tasteless, pale flesh. When tomatoes are home grown without chemicals and therefore are naturally ripened, it is easy to pluck a tomato off your own plant and eat it without even washing it to get rid of chemicals.
In recent times people are becoming progressively more conscious and concerned about the importance of their health and wellbeing. Due to this global change in awareness, more and more people right around the globe are selecting to explore the option of growing their own organic veg and fruits, including organic tomato gardening. Tomatoes will grow in just about any type of soil and after the frosts are over.
Organic tomato gardening in your back garden is incredibly simple:
First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, making sure 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 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 little cocktail ones that do well in garden containers, or the plum shaped ones, or maybe even the big beefsteak types. There are plenty of varieties to choose from which are ideal for organic tomato gardening.
Furthermore, you will 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.
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 directions 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 - right now you need to water your plants in well, then stand back and enjoy your own handiwork.
Be sure you keep the ground moist although not saturated and finally when the plants are about six weeks old, it’s a good time to then add cow tea.
This is produced 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 wait for your first batch of organic tomatoes to ripen. Conserve the rest of the cow tea to apply 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 scrumptious! Absolutely 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 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 on the planet, start organic tomato gardening TODAY!