Tomato farming at home

How to do tomato farming at home ?

Tomato is the edible, often red, berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant. The species originated in western South America and Central America. The Nahuatl (Aztec language) word tomatl gave rise to the Spanish word tomate, from which the English word tomato derived.

Cultivating tomato at home

For cultivation of tomato at home you will need the below items.

• Good quality soil - Loam and sandy loam soil are good choice.
• Organic compost
• Planter pot.
• Ripe tomato.

Procedure for cultivation

Soil preparation

Collect the soil and crush it well close to fine powder, mix 25% organic compost with the soil thoroughly. Loam and sandy loam soils are best for tomato production, but these plants will grow in almost all soil types except heavy clay. If you your soil has lots of clay, you can improve the texture by tilling the soil and incorporating sand, sawdust, peat moss or other amendments before planting

Seed collection from tomato

Cut the tomato and collect the seeds from it, dry the seed for 1-2 days under the sun ( for best result). You can use normal seed also or can buy seed only or government store.

Final step - sowing seeds 

Fill the planter 75% with the soil prepared in previous step. Spread the seeds throughout inside the planter above the soil. Now fill rest 25% of the planter pot with the soil and water it thoroughly.

Water the planter every day morning and wait for 4-5 days, the seed germination take almost a week.

Once the plants grow a bit then to re plantation work to separate the plants into different planter pot.

Benefits of growing your own vegetables

The growing population in India has created a big gap on demand and supply. People look for opportunity to earn money by supplying adulterated or bad quality vegetables. To increase productivity of vegetables people try various fowl means here in India like.

• Injecting hormone in plants.
• Use of chemical fertilizers.
• Chemicals to ripen fruits and vegetables.
• Cold storage to store surplus items.
• Use of excessive chemicals to store fruits and vegetables.

So if you grow your own vegetables then you can enjoy the fresh fruits and vegetables.