Just imagine sinking your pearly white’s into a freshly picked, beautifully ripe, sweet and organically grown tomato, with the juice running down your chin. Yummy!
With the help of organic tomato gardening, you can leave behind those shop-bought tomatoes with tough skins, and bland, pale flesh. Whenever tomatoes are home grown organically and therefore 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.
These days people are becoming increasingly aware and concerned about the importance of their health and wellbeing. Due to this global shift in awareness, a lot more people right around the globe 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 over.
Organic tomato gardening in your back garden is very simple:
First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, ensuring it is in a sunny position and away from trees, which have a tendency 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 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 decide which variety of tomato you would like to grow. The small 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 choose from which 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.
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 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, after that stand back and enjoy your own handiwork.
Make sure you keep the ground moist but not soggy and finally when the plants are about 6 weeks old, it’s a good time to then add cow tea.
This is produced 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 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 is simply delicious! 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, you can possibly imagine. Isn’t it time you ate the very best vegetables and fruit? For the freshest as well as tastiest tomatoes in the world, begin organic tomato gardening TODAY!
