Organic Tomato Gardening

Visualize sinking your teeth in to a newly picked, beautifully ripe, delicious and organically harvested 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. When tomatoes are home grown without chemicals and 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 compounds.

These days everyone is becoming progressively more aware and concerned about the importance of their health. As a result of this global change in awareness, a growing number of people right around the world are choosing to explore the option of growing their own organic veg and fruits, including organic tomato gardening. Tomatoes will grow in just about any kind of soil and after the frosts are over.

Organic tomato gardening in your back garden is incredibly simple:

First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, making sure it is in a sunny spot and away from trees, which have a tendency to rob the soil of the nutrition you will need for your plants. Tomatoes like six to eight hours 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 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 want 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 that are ideal for organic tomato gardening.

Additionally, 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.

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, then stand back and enjoy your own handiwork.

Be 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 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’ right into a watering can, fill with water and apply to the tomatoes.

You’ll be amazed at how well your tomatoes will love cow tea and respond. Stand back and wait for your first batch of organic tomatoes to ripen. Conserve the rest 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 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, 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!