Tomatoes grow easily in Kerala

Tomatoes grow easily in Kerala.

Do you want flavorless, pale, pesticide infested, orange or red colored,  fruit that grocers call tomatoes or grow colorful, flavorful, juicy, and tasty, tomatoes that grows easily in Kerala? We may get cheap tomato from the market, but it comes along with pesticides which may cause diabetes, cancer etc. Buy 1 get 2 free. Do you want to start a garden that can change your life, improve your health, save money, boost your mood, and grow fresh garden veggies?

Best time to grow in Kerala is from  November to May end

Tomatoes love dry weather. Don't try to grow in rainy season from June to November since it is humid and the leaves  and stem gets  rotten.  If you got a green house try it. The best time to grow is from November to June .  ie After Thulavarsham before monsoon. Start  planting in November to January end. Enjoy the produce before the monsoon. It will get fruit after two months from the day of planting and you will have plenty fruits for about six months.

Cherry tomato
 

You can plant the seeds from the fully ripe fruits.  Cut the ripe fruit, take the flesh for curries, and remove the seed in tea filter, wash and keep on a piece of paper for a week to dry. The seed is ready to plant after one week. Sow them on ground or in pot. Then replant them in sunny areas. While replanting them get a support pole or stick so that when the plant bears fruit it gets support and you can avoid piercing  the soil and cut roots.

Cherry tomato grow easily with less care in Kerala. It requires support. You can grow them under the bush or tree or on the side of fence. See the photo on top. it is grown on the rails.

You can plant them in pots, ground, or near the fence, so they will creep on the fence or nearby small trees.

Pruning to be done.

A mix of many varieties.

Prune unwanted leaves and unwanted branches. So that the whole energy goes to fruits and useful branches. You will get plenty big fruits. 

See the video below- how to prune


How to grow tomatoes? Click the bottom URL
http://motherkeralacom.blogspot.ca/2015/02/tomatoes-how-to-grow.html

Wish you happy gardening.


How to get a free tomato plants from the branches. Click the following.

http://motherkeralacom.blogspot.ca/2012/11/how-to-grow-tomatoe-plant-from-branch.html

Related videos

how to grow tomatoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHhKfM_C7o

How to prune tomatoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gw3zFBJB8I

Tomato in plastic bucket (at the back 5 buckets). Grown in Trivandrum

Tomato festival- 70 varieties.
 

Mix of cherry  , bell etc tomatoes 

Heirloom
 



Rajani's farm, Pallickal, Kattanam, Kerala.