Growing your own tomatoes or vegetables means guaranteeing their quality. And the benefits inherent in this practice are welcome to say the least. In fact, 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 several good tips for planting tomatoes, there is the 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 satisfactory yields:

1. Start by sourcing quality organic tomatoes by considering their type based on the climate in your area. You can use the advice of a local expert to have the tomatoes that best suit you (having quality ones also means ensuring quality dishes).
2. Turn your plants on their side
3. Then dig a trench so that you can plant the plants there, of which you will leave 8 cm uncovered.
4. Add slow-release fertilizer at the rate of a quarter cup, up to a 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 you apply it directly to the leaves.
8. As soon as you see the surface of the first yields, fill the tomatoes with two or three teaspoons of ammonium sulfate. Then water them.
9. When the tomatoes reach 30% maturity, pick them. This will prevent birds from grabbing it.
10. Finally, for conservation and so that they do not deteriorate, avoid putting them in the refrigerator.

Tomato Care Information

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 eliminate sprouts, also called “greedy”. 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 groups of leaves intact.
• Also be sure to till the soil and clean it  as this will prevent weeds from appearing.

As good fertilizers, comfrey manure or nettle manure are recommended thanks to their 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 near-perfect plantings.

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 the leaves
• Aphids:   Curl of tomato leaves
• Whitefly: You notice small whiteflies congregating on the underside of leaves. In this case, an insecticide of plant origin should be used   . You can also plant nasturtiums at the foot of tomatoes
• Tomato miner: It is  a larva that digs galleries in the leaves, the tomato and even the stems.
• Tomato early blight: Necrosis-like forms are observed in tomatoes. Thus we notice  black dots   on the surface.