Good Organic Gardening

10 tips for tip-top toms

Midsummer is make-or-break time for tomatoes: in some areas, crops are already ripening but in colder parts of Australia it’s a waiting game.

It may still be a few weeks before you get to savour that first delicious taste of sun-warmed, homegrown tomato.

Meanwhile, here are 10 tips for getting the best from your plants this summer and enjoying a crop that’s bursting with flavour and nutrients.

Tomatoes can be planted as soon as the soil warms and all threat of frost has passed. This

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