Growing your best Tomatoes… The simple way.

Any person that has had a vegie garden before has tried to grow Tomatoes. Tomatoes are a plant that requires a little bit more than just a bit of water to make it thrive. I have had a few tomato crops fail over the season and here is some of the stuff that I have learnt, I hope it helps you to grow your best crop of Tomatoes yet!

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The first thing I like to do is test the PH of the soil that I am going to use. Tomatoes like their soil pH around 6.0 to 6.8. On the pH scale 7.0 is neutral; so the range which tomatoes prefer is slightly on the acid side. If your soil isn’t sitting within the right range it is easier to fix before planting then it is after you have already planted you tomatoes. The simplest way is to mix some good quality manure into your soil.

Tomatoes burn very easily in the sun. They need sunshine to stop them going moldy and getting nasty diseases. I recommend a spot where they get direct sun in the morning until around lunchtime, then in the shade.

Watering most people believe the more water the better. This is not necessarily true I only water every second day to give them a chance to dry out. I also do not water until after dinner in summer to make sure that they the get the most from the water. (don’t forget to spray the fruit and the leaves to make the most out of your water.

I am a firm believer in planting a whole raw egg underneath each plant to stop blossom rot. Many people have laughed at me for that one but I tell ya it works. I also like to sprinkle egg shells around the base of the plant maybe once a week. This will leach valuable nutrients into the soil.  

Don't forget the final part a good quality mulch. I use the dirty saw dust from the chicken boxes.

If you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments and will be happy to help out.

Changing my Diet Changed my Life

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This is not your typical slow living mum blog post. But there has been such a dramatic change in my life since I have eliminated gluten and switched to a more organic natural diet.

Six months ago I was living on a diet of coffee and deep fried dim sims and cigarettes. I never seemed to have any energy and my skin and hair was dull and limp. I just thought it was down to being a busy mum that doesn't have a lot of time for herself.

Then summer came and I seem to change my diet, I stopped eating gluten. I swapped to avocado on rice cakes with a hint of lemon juice. I suddenly had all this extra energy, it was easier to drag my bum out of bed in the morning. I actually started walking on my lunch break.

This was just the start the better I was feeling the more I wanted to feel better, I looked at myself in the mirror one day and realised that I was pushing 30 and still had acne. It wasn't just the acne I was aging long before my time. If I didn't change I would look like I am 60 at 40. So the reinvention of me began.

I am not a vegan person I love meat. Although I did reduce the amount of meat I was eating.

Here is some of the changes that I made:

1. I stopped eating 50% of the processed food I was eating such as dim sims and chips
2. I replaced the 50% with Natural fruit and nuts

1. I started drinking 2.5 litres of water a day. (I have never peed so much in my life)
2. I started cooking as much as I could from scratch. Such as pasta sauces/Meat pastes/Spreads. I was surprised how much cheaper it was to cook from scratch
3. I put any junk food up above my eye height. If it was the age old if you have good food you will eat good food
4. I started exercising once a day - Yoga/Walking/Swimming it does matter what it is so long as I was sweating.

It takes 28 days to make a habit. Once it becomes a habit it becomes second nature.