Organic Tomato Gardening
March 26, 2010 by Stacy42
Just imagine sinking your pearly white’s in to a freshly picked, wonderfully ripe, delicious and organically grown tomato, with the juice running down your chin. Yummy!
Through organic tomato gardening, you can say goodbye to those shop-bought tomatoes with tough skins, and bland, pale flesh. When tomatoes are home grown organically and therefore are naturally ripened, it is easy to pluck a tomato off your plant and eat it without washing it to get rid of chemical substances.
Nowadays people are becoming progressively more conscious and worried about the importance of their health. Due to this world-wide change in awareness, a lot more people right around the globe are selecting to explore the alternative of growing their own organic veg and fruits, including organic tomato gardening. Tomatoes will grow in virtually any type 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 spot and away from trees and shrubs, which tend to rob the soil of the nutrients you will need for your crops. Tomatoes like 6 to 8 hrs of sun each 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 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 perhaps even the big beefsteak ones. There are plenty of varieties to select from that are suitable 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’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 – now you need to water your plants in well, after that stand back and admire your own 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 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 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. Save 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, add some 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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Start your own organic veg garden today, so you can receive 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 in the world, begin organic tomato gardening TODAY!

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