Organic Tomato Gardening

Envision sinking your teeth into a home picked, beautifully ripe, sweet and organically grown tomato, with all the juice running down your chin. Yummy!

With organic tomato gardening, you’ll be able to leave behind those shop-bought tomatoes with tough skins, and tasteless, pale flesh. Whenever tomatoes are home grown organically and are naturally ripened, you can pluck a tomato off your plant and eat it without washing it to get rid of chemicals.

In recent times everyone is becoming increasingly aware and concerned with the importance of their health and wellbeing. Because of this global shift in awareness, a growing number of people right around the globe are selecting to explore the option of growing their very 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 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, which tend to rob the soil of the nutrients you will need for your plants. Tomatoes like six to eight hrs of sun every 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 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 perhaps even the big beefsteak ones. There are lots of varieties to select from that are suitable for organic tomato gardening.

Additionally, 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 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 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, then stand back and enjoy your own handiwork.

Be sure you keep the ground moist but not soggy and finally when the plants are about 6 weeks old, it is a good time to then add 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 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 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 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 get an abundant yield of the most 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 in the world, begin organic tomato gardening TODAY!