Organic Tomato Gardening
March 25th, 2010 | 
Author: Envision sinking your teeth in to a home picked, beautifully ripe, delicious and organically grown tomato, with 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 tasteless, pale flesh. Whenever tomatoes are home grown organically and therefore 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.
In recent times everyone is becoming increasingly conscious and concerned with the importance of their health and wellbeing. As a result of this global change in awareness, a lot more people right around the globe are selecting to explore the option 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 gone.
Organic tomato gardening in your back garden is very straightforward:
First decide where you want to place your tomato bed, ensuring it is in a sunny position and away from trees and shrubs, which tend to rob the soil of the nutrition you will need for your plants. Tomatoes like 6 to 8 hrs of sun every 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 choose which variety of tomato you want to grow. The small cocktail ones that do well in garden containers, or the plum shaped ones, or maybe even the big beefsteak ones. There are lots of varieties to choose from which are ideal for organic tomato gardening.
Additionally, you’ll 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’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 - right now you need to water your plants in well, then stand back and admire your own handiwork.
Be sure you keep the ground moist but not saturated and finally when the plants are about six weeks old, it’s 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’ 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 wait for your first batch of organic tomatoes to ripen. Conserve the remainder of the cow tea to use once 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, then add slices of tomato and some freshly chopped basil. Season with some salt and pepper. Enjoy - this is simply scrumptious! Nothing beats 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, imaginable. Isn’t it time you ate the very best vegetables and fruit? For the freshest as well as tastiest tomatoes on the planet, start organic tomato gardening TODAY!
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