Growing your own tomatoes or vegetables means ensuring their quality. And the benefits inherent in this practice are welcome to say the least. Indeed, growing your own tomatoes will allow you to enjoy a fresh and organic vegetable. Grown with care and love, you don’t need to have a green thumb to have beautiful tomatoes at home. In this article we present the procedure to follow.

Among the various good tips for planting tomatoes, there is one that allows you to have a good production. In just 10 easy-to-follow steps, this is a great way to grow tomatoes   with a satisfactory yield:

1. Start by sourcing quality organic tomatoes, considering their type according to the climate in your area. You can use the advice of a local expert to get the tomatoes that suit you best (having quality ones also means ensuring quality dishes).
2. Put your plants on their sides
3. Then dig a trench to plant the plants, leaving 8 cm uncovered.
4. Add slow-release fertilizer at a rate of one-quarter cup to one-half cup.
5. For each plant, set up a cage. The latter should be about 150 cm high and 60 cm in diameter.
6. Using a floating blanket, cover the cages. This will protect them from the winds.
7. Then, using an applicator tip, fertilize the plants weekly. Make sure to apply it directly to the leaves.
8. As soon as you see the first shoots appearing on the surface, fill the tomatoes with two or three teaspoons of ammonium sulphate. Then water them.
9. When the tomatoes reach 30% ripeness, pick them. This will prevent birds from getting them.
10. Finally, for preservation and to prevent spoilage, avoid putting them in the refrigerator.

Information on tomato care

It is important to know the best environment for tomatoes so that they can grow   in the best conditions  . Le Jardinier Malin provides advice.

Therefore, you should know that tomatoes like rich soil and are fertilized beforehand. They also need to be   exposed to direct sunlight  . Finally, regular watering will prevent diseases (taking care not to wet the foliage).

The ideal maintenance of tomatoes.

To ensure optimal development, as mentioned above, good sun exposure is highly recommended. The interview involves:

• To remove shoots, also called “greedy shoots”. The reason for this is that they are likely to occur at the junction between the stem and the leaf. These shoots  also extract a lot of sap, which limits the good growth of the plant.
• Once the plant has reached a good height, prune the head keeping 5 sets of leaves intact.
• Also make sure to till the soil and clean it  as this will prevent weeds from appearing.

As good fertilizers, comfrey manure or nettle manure is recommended thanks to its ability to   strengthen the plant and prevent diseases.   And if you want visually attractive tomatoes, opt   for a special organic fertilizer for tomatoes  . Apply it once or twice a month. Good gardening habits ensure almost perfect plantations.

tomato diseases

We have mentioned that tomatoes are susceptible to diseases. Here they are so you can easily identify them:

• Tomato downy mildew: Leaves have  black spots
• Powdery mildew:   white foliage  on leaves
• Aphids:   Tomato leaf curl
• Whitefly: You will notice small white flies congregating on the underside of the leaves. In this case,  a plant-based insecticide should be used  . You can also plant nasturtiums at the base of your tomatoes.
• Tomato miner: It is  a larva that digs galleries in the leaves, the tomato and even in the stems.
• Early blight of tomatoes: Necrosis-like patterns are observed on tomatoes.  Black spots  can be seen  on the surface.