Organic Tomato Gardening
Just imagine sinking your pearly white’s into a freshly picked, beautifully ripe, sweet and organically produced tomato, with 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 without chemicals and are naturally ripened, you can 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 conscious and concerned with the importance of their health. As a result of this world-wide change in awareness, a lot more people right around the world are choosing to explore the alternative of growing their very own organic veg and fruits, including organic tomato gardening. Tomatoes will grow in virtually any kind of soil and after the frosts are over.
Organic tomato gardening in your back garden is very simple:
First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, making sure it is in a sunny position and away from trees and shrubs, which tend to rob the soil of the nutrients you will need for your plants. Tomatoes like six to eight hrs 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 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 pots, 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’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 enjoy your handiwork.
Make sure you keep the ground damp but not soggy 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’ 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 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, then add slices of tomato and some freshly chopped basil. Season with some salt and pepper. Enjoy – this really is simply scrumptious! 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, begin organic tomato gardening TODAY!