Organic Tomato Gardening
Just imagine 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!
With the help of organic tomato gardening, you can say goodbye to those shop-bought tomatoes with tough skins, and tasteless, pale flesh. Whenever tomatoes are home grown organically and are naturally ripened, it is easy to pluck a tomato off your own plant and eat it without washing it to get rid of chemical substances.
In recent times everyone is becoming increasingly aware and concerned with the importance of their health. Because of this world-wide change in awareness, a growing number of people right around the world are selecting to explore the option of growing their very 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 straightforward:
First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, ensuring it is in a sunny spot and away from trees, which tend to rob the soil of the nutrients you need for your crops. Tomatoes like six to eight hrs of sun every 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 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 small cocktail ones that do well in garden containers, or the plum shaped ones, or maybe even the big beefsteak ones. There are plenty of varieties to select from that are suitable for organic tomato gardening.
Furthermore, you will 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 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 directions 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, after that stand back and admire your own handiwork.
Be sure you keep the ground moist but not saturated and finally when the plants are about six weeks old, it is 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 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 wait for 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 and some freshly chopped basil. Season with some salt and pepper. Enjoy – this really is simply scrumptious! Nothing beats the fresh, full flavor of home grown tomatoes from organic tomato gardening.
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Start 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!