The secret to growing the most beautiful flowers, big, flavorful tomatoes, amazing vegetables, is healthy soil. So, before you think about growing any type of plant, it is important to think about growing the soil. Like most fruits and vegetables, tomatoes need phosphorus, potassium, calcium and nitrogen to thrive.
How to Grow Delicious Big Tomatoes
There are many varieties of tomatoes, choose some that best fit the environment you live.
Tomatoes love the heat. Choose an airy, bright spot for your plants. They will need about 8 to 10 hours of light per day.
If you are using transplants, be sure and plant up to the first true leaves. Instead of watering the leaves, water directly on the soil.
For larger tomatoes, pinch off non-fruiting branches to give the plant more energy to develop better tomatoes. Stake the plants high to encourage growth.
Most important is to feed, not just the plant but the soil, organic amendments.
According to Common Sense Homesteading, How to Grow Tomatoes Organically, fertilize every few weeks throughout the season helps to gently meet the needs of growing tomato plants. Try fish emulsion, compost tea, worm casting tea. As an added benefit, compost tea has been shown to protect plants by coating the leaves with beneficial organisms that crowd out pathogens, just like consuming probiotic foods and beverages can help keep us healthy.
Why Worm Black Castings?
According to Purdue University Home & Environment
- It contains beneficial microbes.
- It has a high concentration of plant nutrients. Worm castings contain five to 11 times more plant-available nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium than the soil the worms ingest (Martin and Gershuny, 1992). The relative amounts of these nutrients may be similar to those found in commercial potting soil.
- It is made up of organic matter, which helps soil hold more water and nutrients.
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