Home Grown Tomatoes

“Homegrown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can’t buy
That’s true love and home grown tomatoes.”

I really like those lyrics to the song called, you guessed it, Homegrown Tomatoes.  There is nothing like pulling a ripened tomato right off the vine and eating it.  I have never found any other tomato that can taste as good.

Of course it takes some work and patience.  I stopped growing home grown tomatoes a couple years ago, because the tomatoes were getting bottom rot and the plants were easily getting leaf diseases.  I thought, ‘wouldn’t it be cheaper and less time consuming to just go out to a stand and by tomatoes when needed’?  Well as stated above, they never tasted as good and therefore I didn’t eat as much.

Well after a couple of years off, I bit the bullet and plopped down over $40 at the store to buy 4 tomato plants and one bell pepper plant with potting soil and my secret ingredient (I hope) red mulch.

Being a little bit lazy, we use pots to plant our tomatoes on our deck.  This makes it a lot less work in prepartation and makes it easier to water and look after. 

I planted these little guys over the weekend and put about 2″ of red mulch over the potting soil.  I have read in Consumer Reports and other places that the red mulch causes the tomatoes to grow bigger and quicker.  Of course the mulch will help keep weeds out and the water in.  So they might not look very big right now, but hopefully in 75-90 days (this is the patience part of growing tomatoes) I will have some delicious home grown tomatoes.

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