Organic Tomato Gardening
March 29, 2010
Picture sinking your teeth in to a freshly picked, beautifully ripe, sweet and organically cultivated 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 tasteless, pale flesh. When tomatoes are home grown without chemicals and therefore are naturally ripened, you can pluck a tomato off your own plant and eat it without even washing it to get rid of chemical substances.
These days everyone is becoming progressively more conscious and worried about the importance of their health. As a result of this global 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 just about any type 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, making sure it is in a sunny position and away from trees, which tend to rob the soil of the nutrition you will need for your plants. Tomatoes like six to eight hrs of sun every day.
Second, dig over the ground and apply some well rotted compost and manure. If you don’t already 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 choose 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 ones. There are plenty of varieties to select from which 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 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 – right now you need to water your plants in well, then stand back and admire your own handiwork.
Be sure you keep the ground moist although not soggy and finally when the plants are about 6 weeks old, it’s a good time to then add 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’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 remainder of the cow tea to use 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 really is simply delicious! Absolutely nothing beats 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, 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, begin organic tomato gardening TODAY!
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