There are many ways that you can help the environment and one of them is to plant your own produce. You can try to choose from many different kinds of fruits or vegetables that you might want to plant and grow right in your own backyard and one of those little things that interest people is tomato.

Growing tomatoes in your backyard not only provide your family with nutritious home-grown tomatoes but you can also extend a helping hand in helping Mother Earth in your own little way. If you want this kind of idea and it is your first time to do so, you can always go to the Internet and find some kind of learning tool like a book guide to help you with your tomato-growing.

I have always been a lover of tomatoes and my greatest weakness is Italian dishes especially pasta with lots and lots of tomato sauce. There are many things that you can enjoy from eating tomatoes or tomato-based meals and drinking tomato juices.

They contain lycopene and they can help in preventing cancer and for men like us, it is a good defense against prostate cancer and preventing prostate to become enlarged. But other than that, there is another benefit if you think about growing your own tomatoes and learning some good tomato growing tips- you can sell them for a profit.

That’s absolutely correct, I have my own plots of tomatoes in my own backyard and this year, I’m actruallyu thinking about trying to sell them to people like my friends, relatives, neighbors and to anybody else and surely, they know that my tomatoes are healthy and organic and free from all chemicals like pesticides and all.

I have learned how to grow tomato plants without using any of those and the thing that taught me how is a book guide that I’ve downloaded right through the Internet. It’s a little investment that can really help you earn a lot of revenues and to think that you are helping people adapting a healthier lifestyle through your tomatoes.

Dave’s Garden: Gardening Tomatoes

I am sure you have tasted store bought tomatoes but have you tasted fresh tomatoes directly from a home garden. In my books there is just no comparison. The supermarket tomato just doesn’t cut it when it comes to flavour.

I kind of forgot about how awesome home grown tomatoes are until my wife and I planted some a couple of years ago and then there was no turning back. We had to keep growing our own but more.

Growing Great Tomatoes

Summer has gone into hybernations now for this year but we are planning now for next year so that we have about 10 times the amount of tomatoes we had last year. The reason…

… we want to be able to share some as that makes us feel great but more than that we want to can some tomatoes.

I eat about a half can of tomatoes a day, sometimes we eat an entire can of tomatoes but I would much prefer to go downstairs and get a bottle of our own tomatoes.

Highlights From Dave’s Garden Tomatoes Video

• Dave shows a store bought tomato and then explains why it’s not the tomato for you. I have eaten enough store bought ones to know I agree whole heartedly with Dave.
• Don’t expect to throw tomato seeds on the ground and have a great crop of tomatoes.
• Dave covers how to start your tomatoes from seed and tells us when we should start them. This is where I messed up two years and ended planting everything about a month later than I should have.
• Know your last frost date, ours is usually about June 10th, and then go back about 6 to 8 weeks before that date to plant your tomato seeds.

Learning how to grow from seeds is great and saves us a lot of money each year.

See more great videos on my Backyard Gardening YouTube Channel.

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Well as new gardeners our first year of tomato growing has ended. We did great and by applying a few helpful tomato growing tips we will do even better next year, maybe we will have enough to try canning.

Last year I thought it was too early to start my tomatoes indoors and put it off for a bit. Well before I knew it too much time had pasted and I ended up buying my tomato plants again.

Our biggest error last season was to plant our tomatoes way too close together and missed out on a much bigger harvest.

Here are a few changes we will make for next season:

Firstly we realize that growing great tomatoes doesn’t just happen by accident, usually.

1. Start Your Tomatoes Indoor Early. This will give the plants a chance to grow and strengthen before we put them out in the yard. Be sure not to crowd the seeds and if you do then be sure you pluck out the extra plants so that only one or two per pot are left. They will get much healthier with elbow room.

2. Tomatoes Love Light. We didn’t plan our locations very well and didn’t plan for the angle of the sun light. The tomatoes that we planted in full sun did awesome and those that got blocked by our huge trees did okay, but not great like those in the direct sun light.

3. Proper Water And Drainage. Again we learned from our mistakes so you don’t have to. The tomato plants we planted at one end of our garden did great while those at the other end did poorly.

This was our first year at gardening. Our yard is low and the ground clay. We dug it up and put in lots of peatmoss and top soil but one end was still lower than the other, by enough to get flooded over and over. Next year we will be sure to have our tomatoes where the ground will drain well.

4. Put Your Tomato Plants Outside In The Day Time. Of course you don’t want to put your tomato plants out when it’s still to cold but on those day when it’s nice out put them out so they can get adjusted to the climate. It will strengthen your plants if you allow the wind or breeze to blow on them to give them strong stocks.

5. Re-Plant Your Tomato Plants Deeper. Growing your tomatoes from seed can lead to shallow roots so when you transplant them outside be sure to bury them deeper so they will grow a stronger root system which will make a stronger healthier plant that will produce many times more tomatoes.

These are only a few short tips, but they will definitely help you. Learn more about growing great tomatoes, things like mulching, removing leaves and pruning.

We did really well with the varieties of tomatoes we grew this past summer but we can always learn to do better.

For me, there’s nothing better than getting my hands in the soil and being able to produce healthy organic tomatoes and vegetables for my family and friends tops the list.  Tomatoes are the most popular veggies grown in the home garden.  One of the reasons is they are relatively easy to grow.  But that doesn’t mean that they grow without care.  Whether or not you are a seasoned gardener or a noob.

I’m hoping that I can offer you some tips and tricks to make your organic gardening an enjoyable and straightforward process.  There are many advantages to growing Organic Tomatoes.  One.  Organic Tomatoes are fitter and more flavorful.  2.

Save $$$ by growing your own Organic Tomatoes 3.  Being able to supply our families with Organic Tomatoes and veg that are free from insecticides and insecticides.  Four.  Gardening is relaxing and stress free Good organic soil is the key to all gardening success, preparing your soil for your organic tomatoes and vegetable lays the ground work for your plants and will help them thrive.  The soil is the home of your plant and is going to be prepared to help your plants grow.

Now that you have prepared your soil, it time to plant your organic tomato seedlings.  One.  If you’re beginning tomatoes from seed, make efforts to give the seeds room to branch out.  Crowding sprouts repress their growth, so transplant them as quickly as they get their first leaves and move them into 4″ pots about two weeks after that.  2.

Tomato sprouts will need either strong, direct daylight or 14-18 hours under grow lights.  Plant your tomatoes outside in the sunniest part of your vegetable plot.  3.  Dig a hole twice the size of the pot and bury tomato plants deeper than they come in the pot, all of the way up to some top leaves.  One of the most crucial parts of caring for your organic tomatoes is understanding how much water do organic tomato plants need.

Water extremely and slowly – When watering tomatoes ensure that you go slow and straightforward.  Employ a drip hose or different types of drip irrigation to deliver water to your tomato plants slowly.  Two.  Water frequently.

Dependent on how hot it is and if the plant is growing.  Ensure to water your tomato plants at least every 2 – a few days at the height of summer.  If it rains, count that rain as watering.  Three.  Water at the roots – When watering tomatoes, ensure you get the water to the roots.

If you water from above this can cause disease and pests to attack the plants.  Watering tomato plants from above also inspires premature evaporation and pointlessly wastes water.

More helpful vegetable gardening tips

The 2009 gardening season taught us a lot of helpful things we will apply in our 2010 garden for a better garden. We thought it would be helpful to you, the new gardener, while helping ourselves to remember for next year.

Jenny and I are really enjoying gardening in our backyard garden. Just a few short years ago we would never have called ourselves gardeners but it tends to grow on you over time.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying we are seasoned gardeners, not by any stretch of the imagination but we have learned a lot of helpful gardening tips from gardening friends.

We have also learned a considerable amount from online searches using my favorite search engine, Google, and we especially love Youtube for great gardening videos. I learn so much faster watching videos than I do reading.

So here are our top 5 gardening tips for newbies:

Gardening Tip #1 : Keep A Gardening Journal

Tracking what works for you and what others teach you is vital to having gardening success sooner. That is where a gardening journal will come in very handy.

Being able to look back to previous years to see what worked and didn’t work is invaluable. It took me three years before I realized I should have started a gardening journal.

For us, not having a gardening journal, wasn’t so bad because I blogged about everything we did, so I do have a record of it by date.

Use you journal to track the time you plant seeds, how you prepared the ground before planting. The same for plants you purchase that you aren’t growing from seed. You need to remember what you did that was successful or not so successful.

So start a gardening journal TODAY.

Gardening Tip #2 : Read The Labels

I’m a guy and known for throwing about the instructions without reading them. Well I am in my mid 50s now and starting to learn that it’s better to read the labels. I just don’t tell anyone.

Seriously, reading the lable and either keeping it or writing it up in your journal will save you time, money and cut down on your stress in the garden.

If a label says full sun and you ignore it and plant it in the shade you maybe scratching your head a month down the road wondering why it’s not doing so well. Is it the watering, what could it be?

Maybe that’s why we didn’t get any zuchinni this year. Hmmmm, better write that down.

So be sure to read the label and planting instructions.

Gardening Tip #3 : Support Your Garden Plants

I made a bit of gardening mess on our first year. I staked up beans, peas, tomatoes, well just about everything but did a poor job and most things kind of out grew the stakes and slowly fell into the rest of the garden.

Next year we are using at least 1 inch stakes instead of the little bamboo stakes I bought. They might work for our indoor plants but outside in the wind and weather they didn’t hold up very well.

So support your garden so it grows up healthy and strong, literally.

Gardening Tip #4 : Get The Right Garden Tools

Tools will either help or hinder your progress.

Example: We didn’t bother with a wheel barrel for the first couple of years, until I realized I was not doing as much as I could because of my energy level. I was wasting most of the little energy I have by hauling things back and forth to and from the garden shed.

A wheel barrel is a great investment.

Another indispensible tool would be my garden gloves. Yeah you read it correctly. An item that costs about 2 bucks saved my tender little hands so that I could continue to work longer.

As a blogger and web designer I don’t do much more than type using my hands so they aren’t very tough. Plus it’s a lot nicer to use gloves while digging in the dirt. I may have to stop and work on a client’s site, like I did this morning.

I don’t have to waste precious time cleaning my hands so I can use my keyboard. Once I was done I was right back out in the garden, wearing my gloves.

Gardening Tip #5 : Share What You Grow

We grew tomatoes this year, again, but more. We ended up with so many tomatoes that I was able to stew some for some of my great garden recipes and enough to share with friends and family.

We don’t grow everything but other friends grow things we don’t so when we share with them it’s more of a barter I think as they give us from what they grow that we don’t and we do the same.

By the way our garden went so well this year that we are tripling the size for next year so we can grow more and maybe even start canning some things to enjoy through the winter. That brings back memories of growing up on the farm.