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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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

I think the thing that can become a lot of work in gardening would have to be the weeds. There isn’t much about gardening that I don’t like and weeding is at the top of the list.

This year we started with square foot gardening and it really does rock. We had a lot of vegetables and very few weeds at all.

Today our easy gardening tip is about having less weeds to weed which is alright with me.

We had a great year in the garden with few weeds I might add.

The way we did it was to plant things very close together so that there is no space between the rows and it worked great for the most part.

We definitely had very few weeds, mostly at the start of the season before our vegetable plants had any size to them. This gave a lot more free garden area for the weeds to grow in.

As soon as the vegetables started to grow the weeds started losing their foot hold on the garden and after a few weeks there were virtually no weeds.

Better Planning Next Year

photo credit: greengardenviennaWe didn’t take the height of our vegetables into account while still in the planning stages so we ended up some vegetables that were over grown by other vegetables.

Next year we will plant or arrange our garden so that we have the heighest plants where they won’t smother or block other smaller plants from the sun.

I think we can also add a little more space between the rows so they have a little more elbow room to grow.

Example: I planted the peas and beans too close to the tomatoes and in no time the tomatoes were towering over the peas and beans blocking out the sun.

The peas also grew up into the tomato plants and made quite a mess. We did get plenty of peas and beans but nothing like we would have if we had put the tomatoes on the opposite side of the peas and beans.

Just a simple placement like that can make a huge difference in your end result.

We love square foot gardening and how easy it is too keep the weeds down, we will just change the order of things.

That’s your easy gardening tips for today, enjoy. Live long with much produce.

Jenny and I started our first garden this year so 2009 has been a most exciting year so far and it`s still only mid July. We are loving it so much that we have decided to doulbe our garden size for next year.

Today I went out to take pictures like I do every day now and saw that we have some Tiny Tim Tomatoes growing. The image below is not from out tomatoes yet, they are still Teeny Tiny Tim tomatoes but they are getting there.

Tiny Tim Tomatoes

• The Tiny Tim tomato is a dwarf cherry tomato.
• The tiny 1 inch tomatoes literally covered the plant.
• The plant will grow to between a foot tall and 18 inches.
• It matures in about 55 days

We bought 5 varieties of tomato with 4 Tiny Tim Tomato plants about 4 or 5 inches tall however come next year we would like to try growing them from seed.

We had them in containers but I transplanted the 4 of them into the same raised bed we have our strawberry plants. Hopefully the strawberry runners do not take them over before they are finished producing for our table.

I find it funny but even though I know they are not going to be getting any taller I still look at them wondering when they are going to start growing like my other tomato plants which are pushing 3 feet tall now.

Everything we are grow in our little garden tends to bring back a flood of great memories from childhood.

Most of the memories I have from living there were not the best memories but since we started gardening a whole flood of great memories have returned making gardening even more exciting now.

It is funny that most of my best memories have something to do with food.