Organic Tomato Gardening
Imagine sinking your teeth into a freshly picked, wonderfully ripe, sweet and organically harvested 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 bland, pale flesh. Whenever tomatoes are home grown without chemicals and are naturally ripened, it is easy to pluck a tomato off your plant and eat it without even washing it to get rid of chemicals.
Nowadays everyone is becoming increasingly aware and concerned with the importance of their health. Due to this global 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 gone.
Organic tomato gardening in your backyard 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 tend to rob the soil of the nutrients you 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 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 want to grow. The little cocktail ones that do well in garden pots, or the plum shaped ones, or perhaps even the big beefsteak ones. There are lots of varieties to select from which 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.
Right 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 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 handiwork.
Make sure you keep the ground moist but not soggy and finally when the plants are about six weeks old, it’s a good time to add some cow tea.
This is made 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 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. Save the remainder 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, add some slices of tomato plus some freshly chopped basil. Season with some salt and pepper. Enjoy - this really 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 receive an abundant yield of the very 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 as well as tastiest tomatoes on the planet, begin organic tomato gardening TODAY!