Sometimes you have to get creative to sustain your family in the midst of scarcity. Learn the step by step 'how to' grow your own tomatoes
What you need!
..Life chicken
(you will need the daily waste as manure/fertilizer for your soil)
..A little soil
digger (to till and cultivate your soil)
..Tomatoes
seeds (from over ripe tomatoes, you can go to your neighbor’s house and borrow
one tomato (that’s if they don’t use stick to pursue you in this time of scarcity)
..Water (You
don’t need to buy this)
..Sun (Even
cheaper than water and very very easy to find)
..One or two
bamboo sticks (to create a vine because tomatoes plants crawl, the vine will
keep the plant upright)
..Your faith
1. Find yourself a fresh tomatoe or even go to the market to buy yourself the dreaded expensive tomatoes (hopefully it would be your last purchase, try to however buy the over ripe ones)
2. Till your
soil by using your soil digger to soften the soil, instead of throwing out the
waste from your live chick/hen, pour it on your soil (do this for at least 2
days). Make sure to constantly dig and cultivate the soil so it soaks up the
waste from the chicken.
3. On the
third day do not add water to the soil, mix the chicken waste with the soil as
it is and let the soil suck up all the excess water from the previous day in
preparation for the tomatoes seeds
4. Wash up
your tomatoes, make sure not to pour out the water used in rinsing (this would
contain seeds from the tomatoes)
3. Pour out
your water containing the tomatoes seeds on your tilled soil and leave in the
sun for another day
4. Make sure
animals are nowhere near your soil so that they do not dig up your seeds
5. By day 5
the tomatoes seeds would have totally dried up and you will start to see little
greens
6. Wet the
soil with any signs of dryness (be sure not to over wet because too much water
will drown the leaves and you would have to go back to number 2 above). You can
store up the chicken waste and let it settle in a bucket, drain off excess
water and pour on your soil to avoid excess water. Watering is good but too
much of it is bad for the plants especially if your soil is in a container. It
is however advisable not to use a container, plant directly on ground soil.
7. Make sure
to constantly cultivate the soil and pick your tomatoes as desired, if it falls
off unripe, place upright with stem
8. Never refrigerate
fresh tomatoes (we all do but tomatoes are supposed to be stored in room temperature)
9. To store
large quantity, put in a tightly sealed plastic bag in the freezer.
Hope this was
helpful, drop your comments and if you ever try it, come back to TESTIFY!
Disclaimer.
This process is from my younger days assisting my parents plant all sorts of
fruits and vegetables. You may have a better way, but this is my way and it
sure works.
After you
start growing your tomatoes, make sure to add bingo to the pet list so that
Bingo can chase away those who want to steal away the blessing of God. Trust me
after the tomatoes start to grow, your neighbors will smile at you any chance
they get and use style to come and visit…….lol
