Organic Tomato Garden

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 08:42

An organic backyard garden! Sounds heavenly doesn’t it?

Every spring I get the hankering to plant a garden. I tried to have a garden in my subdivision home but the top soil was skimmed off by the builders and so although I have dumped bags of peat moss, garden soil, sand and fertilizer on it over the years, the garden is just not what I would call a real garden.

So this year when visiting Pickering Museum Village on Steam Days and there was a table set up arrayed with little fledgling tomato plants, well the bug just struck again.

Jon, the farmer gave me a list of exquisitely named ‘organic’ tomato plants to choose from. I couldn’t actually choose, they all sounded so delicious and visualizing luscious tomatoes on the vine. Well, I just had to buy one of each.

Organic plants have all the original qualities that we associate with our foods. Studies have been done to show the difference in organic vs modified seeds and the resulting fruits or vegetables.

On arriving home, the delima of the garden soil again confronted me. So this year I decided to plant in containers. So far the tomatoes are growing strong and healthy. I’ll take pictures and let you know how they turned out this fall.

Here are the names of the tomato plants.

1. Chadwick’s Cherry – Organic – Comes with a pedigree – Allen Chadwick of England – 1.5” Juicy fruit, very prolific.
2. Beef Steak – Organic, pre-1916 – Large red fruit that average almost 1lb. – Rich Sweet flavor
3. Brandywine- Organic- Amish Heirloom 1885 Potato-like leaves – large Reddish Red Fruit.
4. Czech Select – Organic – early producer – Good sized red fruit with excellent flavour.
5. German Pink – Rare Organic, Potato-like leaves – Started Seed Save Exchange- Good Yield – 1 to 2 lb Sweet Fruit
6. Moneymaker – Organic- Old English – Extremely Prolific Handles most weather conditions – Deep Red fruit 4-5oz.
7. Mortgage Lifter – Organic, Endangered 1930’s developed by ‘Radiator Charlie’ sold during the Big Depression for $1.00 per plant – Pink Purple Fruit, Large and Meaty with a wonderful taste.
8. Martino’s Roma – Organic – Italian Heirloom – Paste Tomato, Very Heavy Producer – 2” to 3” oval, meaty red fruit.
9. Pomme d’Amour – Organic Rare – French 1820, Canary Islands – 2 “ Pink fruit with wonderful flavour.
10. Riesentraube – Organic – German pre-1856 –
‘Giant Bunches of Red Grapes’ 1” fruit 20 to 40 per cluster, Delicious!

I'm sure I will learn about more organic and old fashioned gardening techniques as I travel around to the nine museums who are participating in a joint self guided tour theme this summer and fall in Durham Region Ontario.

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