Tomatoes
are perfect summer vegetable… just remember smell of freshly cut tomatoes mixed
with a bit of basil and few drops of lemon juice…. Well this year I’ll have
home grown tomatoes, like I use to have last few years. This year I planted tomato seeds in early
march and they grew out so well. Last afternoon was perfect time to transfer
them in my garden. I did new way of gardening this spring, raised bed, and we’ll
see how it will go (in a few days I’ll show you what we did during last
weekend). Tomatoes are one vegetable
that grows so well in my garden, and I have to tell you one little secret. Last
year I didn’t have much time during June to weed my tomatoes so I thought there
won’t be any, but I was wrong. Nothing happened and I had perfect tomatoes.
Growing your own tomatoes is not hard. I saved seeds from tomatoes I had in my
garden last year. All you need is some soil, seeds and some sort of container (I
used yoghurt cups).
Put a one or two seeds in every container and put some soil
on top of your seeds. Tomato seedlings
need strong, direct light, so you may consider putting them on sunny window,
and have same this in mind when you're ready to plant them outside - try to choose
the sunniest part of your garden. When you’re going to plan them outside, put your
plants deeper than they were in the pot, all the way up to the top few leaves. After you transplant your tomatoes be sure to
avoid transplant shock and give each plant about 3-4 liters of warm water (around
27C). Your each tomato plant should be some 40 cm distance then other, but you
can plant them on smaller distance (like I did) and then after they grow a bit
bigger choose better ones. First 10 days tomato plants require about 500ml of
water each day.
After some 10 days tomatoes are in your garden, you should
ensure each plant about 7.5 liters of water per week, so keep that in mind if
you don’t have rainy weather. In hot summer days it’s ok to water it more frequently
with larger volumes of water. Speaking
about watering, keep in mind it’s better to use soaker hose then watering it
overhead. Overhead watering can cause and encourage diseases that tomatoes are
particularly prone to. Something I learned previous years; it’s good to put
some dried grass or some mulch to keep soil moist during dry summer weather.
You can put it after some two weeks after transplanting. When your tomatoes
grow a bit bigger, about some month after transplanting you should use stakes
for your tomatoes, but I’ll tell you more about it when stakes times comes. If
you are wondering, I planted cherry, oxheart and brandywine tomatoes. For the end of this post, just keep in mind
that tomatoes need lots of warm weather and sunshine for optimum taste.
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Rajčice su
idealno ljetno povrće ... Sjeti se samo mirisa svježe narezane rajčice
pomiješane s malo bosiljka i nekoliko kapi limunova soka .... I ove ću godine,
baš kao i prošlih imati domaće rajčice. Sjeme rajčice zasadila sam još početkom
ožujka, a biljčice su tako lijepo napredovale. Jučerašnje poslijepodne
iskoristila sam za presađivanje istih u moj vrt. Ove godine, iskušali smo nov
način uređenja vrta, takozvane podignute gredice, pa ćemo vidjeti što će od
toga na kraju ispasti (kroz nekoliko dana pokazat ću vam što smo radili tijekom
prošlog vikenda ).Rajčice su povrće koje u mom vrtu raste tako dobro, a moram
vam reći I jednu malu tajnu. Prošle godine nisam imala puno vremena tijekom
lipnja kako bi uklonila korov koji je narastao oko mojih rajčica, i mislila sam
da od njih neće biti ništa, no bila sam u krivu. Unatoč korovu, ništa se nije
dogodilo, a ja sam imala savršene rajčice. Uzgojiti vlastite nije teško. Prošle
godine spremila sam sjeme koje domaćih, a njih sam u čaše posijala tijekom
ožujka. Sve što trebate je zemlja, sjemenke i neka vrsta posude (ja sam
koristila čaše od jogurta). Stavite jednu ili dvije sjemenke u svaku posudu i
sjeme prekrijte zemljom. Sadnice rajčice zahtijevaju jako , izravno svjetlo ,
tako da ih nije loše postaviti na sunčani prozor, a istu stvar imajte na umu i
kada ćete presađivati biljke u vrt – pokušajte izabrati najsunčaniji dio vašeg
vrta . Kada ih krenete presađivati, zasadite biljke dublje nego što su bili u
čašama, sve do prvih nekoliko listova. Nakon što ste presadili svoje rajčice
pokušajte izbjeći šok koji biljka doživi i dati svakoj oko 3-4 litre tople vode
( oko 27 ° C ). Rajčice bi trebale biti na razmaku od oko 40 cm, ali ih možete
posaditi na manjoj udaljenosti ( kao ja), a zatim nakon što narastu, izabrati
one bolje i veće. Biljke prvih 10 dana, svakodnevno zahtijevaju oko 500 ml
vode. Nakon nekih 10-ak dana kako su rajčice u vrtu, potrebno je svakoj biljci
osigurati oko 7,5 litara vode tjedno. Imajte to na umu , ako nemate kišovito
vrijeme . U vrućim ljetnim danima u redu je i češće zalijevati biljke s većim
količinama vode.Kada govorimo o zalijevanju rajčica, pripazite da ne zalijevate
“odozgora”, već koristite crijevo I zalijevajte pri dnu biljke. Zalijevanje
odozgora može izazvati i potaknuti bolesti kojima su rajčice osobito sklone .
Nešto što sam naučila prethodnih godina ; dobro staviti neke pokošenu travu ili
neku vrstu malča kako bi tlo,tijekom suhog ljetnog vremena zadržalo dovoljno
vlage. To možete napraviti već nakon neka dva tjedna od presađivanja. Kada vaša
rajčica naraste, oko nekih mjesec dana nakon presađivanja, trebate postaviti
potporu za biljku, ili mrežu ili drvene stupiće za koje ćete vezati biljke. Bit
će riječi i o tome kada za to dođe pravo vrijeme. Ako ste znatiželjni, ove
godine zasadila sam cherry rajčice, brandywine i volovsko srce. Za kraj ovog
posta , ne zaboravite da je rajčicama, za njihov optimalan okus potrebno puno
toplog vremena i sunca.
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