Why You Should Plant Your Own Tomatoes

If you are planting your first garden one of the most favorite vegetables you will want to plant will be tomatoes. Planting and raising and harvesting your own tomatoes will be very satisfying. Nothing is sweeter than a fresh tomato right off the vine and into your mouth. Depending on what type of tomato you like will depend if you plant large size producers or uniform not-so-big fruit producers.

You may want to start your own plants if you have the room indoors or for quicker production you may opt to purchase the already established plants from the local nursery or plant section of the local department store. If you want small salad tomatoes there are several types. Small sizes come in tiny Sweet 100s to grape tomatoes to patio size about the size of a plum. Larger sizes are good for slicing or canning or freezing. When you grow your own you can control what is used for pest control, such as just using flour to get rid of cabbage moths, and hand picking off the tomato horn worms. Using chemicals in the garden not only kills unwanted insects but the useful ones also.

Tomatoes usually are very prolific, so if you are going organic, use manure instead of chemical fertilizers. Some think it is unhealthy to use the chemicals and therefore go all organic. Search the internet or go to the local nursery for advise on organic gardening. Choose your tomato plants and put them in the satisfying location and watch them grow into beautiful productive and surely more nutritious plants for food and profit.