It is April and you are having dreams of growing organic tomatoes in your backyard. In your reoccuring dream, everything you have to do is on autopilot. An automatic shovel digs up the soil, and a robot digs the holes for your tomato plants, fills in the soil, ties your tomato plants to a stake and waters your seedlings. Well, you can dream.
Here are 10 tips to make growing organic tomatoes almost as easy as your dream.
1.Separate your plants…growing organic tomatoes is best accomplished when the plants are 3 feet apart to give the roots room to spread out.
2. Dig Deep…plant your tomato plants in a deep hole.
3. Weather Reports…you can check temperature ranges for your town online. Do not plant your tomato plants until the low temperatures are always above 48 degrees.
4. Soil Temperature…make sure your soil temperature is above 50 degrees before planting.
5. Cover your beds…with a clear plastic for about one week before planting to warm up the soil. The clear plastic acts like a greenhouse to capture the warmth.
6. Fertilize when planting…when planting organic tomatoes, put about a cup of organic fertilizer, such as bone meal before planting.
7. Water deep when you first plant your organic or heirloom tomatoes. Then pack down the soil.
8. Pest control…when growing organic tomatoes, plant bulbs of garlic around your garden to help keep pests away. They hate the odor.
9. Insect control…you can buy ladybugs for your garden. They will eat many of the insects that would like to eat your plants.
10. Keep your plants warm…you can buy clear plastic containers to cover your plants at night to keep the cold out.
You can make growing organic tomatoes fun and have a bumper crop of juicy organically grown tomatoes, by following these tips. To get more ideas on growing organic tomatoes check out Growing Organic Tomatoes…The Easy Way
To learn more about growing organic tomatoes as well as organic vegetable gardening, I highly recommend you read more at Growing Organic Tomatoes
