Why Plant Tomatoes? For the Health Benefits and Increased Income
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Some simple steps to enjoy an Abundant Harvest of Home Grown tomatoes, earn some Spending Cash and Enjoy the Outdoors.
We raised our family from Truck Gardening small acreage.
We sold our produce locally, roadside and to local markets and were involved in one of the Original Farmer's Markets.
This lens will share with you HOW TO successfully grow a Huge Harvest with small spaces and earn some Petty Cash, or some REAL cash if you have a couple thousand square feet
Beside th obvious possibility of having Fun, earning some extra money and enjoying the "outdoors", Tomatoes are an important source of beneficial Vitamins and Nutrients.
Recently there has been much discussion about the properties of LYCOPENE
Benefits And Uses For Lycopene:Lycopene is an Antioxidant the body uses to dispose of toxics, fight disease and repair tissue. It is believed to fight cancers, cardiovascular diseases, macular degeneration, reduce bad cholesterol, fight infections and protect DNA coding.
Deficiency Symptoms Of Lycopene:Lycopene, though very beneficial to the body, is not considered an essential nutrient. No Deficiency symptoms have been associated.
Toxicity (Overdose) Symptoms Of Lycopene:Taken as part of the natural food or in sauces and juices, Lycopene is non-toxic. Currently no information linking Lycopene supplementation with any toxicity or side effects.
Foods High In Lycopene:Lycopene is present in most fresh fruits and vegetables. Those foods with the highest concentrations are tomatoes, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, red, yellow and orange fruits and fruit juices, red, yellow and orange vegetables. The juices and sauces seem to have more digestible forms of Lycopene...even when cooked.
LYCOPENE's presence in the RED juices is also another reason for our interest and enjoyment of Mangosteen Juice. The anti-oxidant properties of all of the red Fruits and vegetables has been important to me, since my Bout with a massive coronary..
What a great combination, Gardening for the Excercise, for the Income, and the Healthy Benefits of the fresh fruit and vegetables
Project Tomatoes and other Veggies for Health & Wealth 2008
Recording another Veggie Plot for improving your Health and building a little wealth
I will be posting the progress with Text, photos and Video snippets.
It is expected to show how these 24 Plants, cared for properly (10-15 minutes a day) can not only provide a generous supply of Lycopene rich Tomatoes to your family's Table, but add another $1,000 to your Fun Budget.
I planted the first 12 on Easter Sunday March23, 2008 and the second 12 on March 30, 2008.
Another direction this year is getting back to some of my passion regarding Farming and gardening form 45 years ago.
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For years we raised our Children frorn the Bountiful Harvest and well manged Business of Our 20 Acre truck farm.
So as mentioned in this lens I set out to plant 24 Plants and shoot for 1,000 pound yield and earn a $1,000.
The results are now available on a quality DVD delivered to You door for less than the price of a Family Pizza.
Pay special attention to the Planting, pruning and Tying segments. It is possible to enjoy 30-50 pounds of delicious Tomatoes form a well tended Indeterminate Variety of Tomatoes.
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2008 Tomato Plot for Health & Wealth
Folow the progress through the Summer
can improve your Health and Wealth
Part 1, Growing aTomato Garden for Health and Wealth,
http://squidoo.com/tomatoesandwealth A summer long Journey in following 24 Tomato plants from Planting to Harvest. Learn How to turn a few minutes a day into a Healthy and Wealth Generating Endeavor. Join Chuck Bartok and his crew on another Voyage to Success
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Tomatoes are easy to grow and if done correctly, one plant will yield 30# to 40# of usable Tomatoes.
When we were full time Truck farming we would plant 1/4 acre of POLED TOMATOES and enjoyed $8,000-$9,000 Cash Income at sale prices much Lower than Today.
Planting the Plants correctly early spring, about 2' apart in rows 36" apart, a small space can yield 100's of Pounds of Tomatoes for You and enough to sell to friends and Neighbors, or the Local small
Market.
If the rows were 30 feet long and the plot was 12' wide, you could have 60 Plants. Tended properly, stake and pruned when needed, you could expect 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of Fruit......
do the mathe at 25 cents pound.. and that is way too cheap for VINE Ripened Tomatoes
The secret is in Starting right, and diligently Tend Your Crop daily
What a great way to to un-wind from your Business world and profit at the same time..
I call my small plot another stream of HEALTHY Income
UPDATE September 11, 2007:
We have been Harvesting Beautiful Vine ripe Tomatoes daily for the past month. Total yield #1 quality fruit is just under 30 pound from the Three Plants. We experience several 105 degree days end of June and early July...that put stress on the plants.
Looking for at least 120 pounds #1 Fruit before season finishes...
Update September 23, 2007
We are up to 75 pounds of harvested #1 quality fruit. The past two days have unseasonably wet and cold, and we lost some blossom set......
But sunshine is on its way.
Update October 5, 2007
Things cooled off here in the Northstate. We slowed down ripening.
Only harvested 11 pounds since 09-23-7.
On the bright side, the vines are full of blooms and our Indian Summer is showing up.
Shirley started loading the Row with Shavings form the barns to keep the roots warm.
So we are up to 86# Number 1 Grade Tomatoes.
At the low price of 50 cent a pound The crop has been worth a gross of $43.00.
Not bad for investment, so far, of less than $10.00
UPDATE NOVEMBER 1, 2007
Wel the first of November in Northern California is cooling off. Nighttime temps in the high 40's and Daytime (short sun hours of course) is getting to the mid 70's.
We have harvested the third set of fruit and total to date is 118#. Again using the market price of a low 50 cent a pound the three plants have yielded a
$59 income.....equates to a 1/4 acre income of Several thousand dollars.
We have a very strong Set of bloom and small tomatoes set...it will be touchy to see if they make ripening.
In the past we harvested green-breaking color fruit at or about Frost and hung them in the Barn for Christmas tomatoes.
See ya later...get ready for journey to healthy Fun and profit next spring!
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Update December 3, 2007
Well Jack Frost arrive December 1st.
I feel asleep early and forget to cover the
plants.
The young tender growth was hit, but it will
take a few days to see overall damage.
The GOOD side is we have about 20# of good
size Tomatoes breaking color. We may pick
and hang them in the Barn. The flavor will not
be as delicious as the Total Vine Ripe
of the summer, but they will be better
than "store bought"
Well have Christmas Tomatoes. Happy Holidays
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We love the sometimes Red fruit
By Michelle FabioWe know tomatoes as juicy, tasty, and simply delicious, but it wasn't always this way.
The tomato is said to have been around since as early as 700 A.D. growing wild in the Andes of South America and cultivated by Incas and Aztecs; somehow tomatoes eventually ended up in Central America, and when the Spanish began colonizing America, they took red, seedy fruit to the Caribbean, the Philippines, Asia, and, of course, Europe.
By the 16th century, tomatoes were widely grown and eaten throughout the Mediterranean region where the climate was perfect for growing. Indeed, the earliest tomato recipe can be found in a cookbook from Naples, Italy-although the culinary secrets may be Spanish in origin.
The tomato wasn't welcomed as kindly in Britain or North America, though, where many people thought the strange plant was poisonous because it is a member of the nightshade family-which can be deadly when ingested. We now know that a tomato plant's leaves and stems can be poisonous, but the fruit, the tomato, is edible.
It wasn't until the mid to late 1700s that the tomato became popular in its native hemisphere. Third United States President Thomas Jefferson, having eaten tomatoes in Paris, is said to have begun growing them in Virginia in 1781-within another 50 years, American cookbooks were full of tomato recipe offerings.
So, actually, although the tomato has been around for over a thousand years, it has only recently become a common sight in gardens and on dinner tables.
Thank goodness for progress!
I thank Michelle Fabio for this great article
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- Apr 20, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
- Nice lens. Thanks for sharing this information with us. This information is very important for us.
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- Apr 19, 2009 @ 11:22 am
- Nice lens. Thanks for sharing this information with us. This information is very important for us. income protection
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- Lexi Lexi Nov 24, 2008 @ 3:12 am
- Nice tomato lens! Five Stars!
I love growing and eating tomatoes, Early Girl is mediocre but reliable in my difficult climate. Stupice is wonderful and Caspian Pink even more so!
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- DebiJones DebiJones Oct 9, 2008 @ 5:07 am
- Hey Chuck!
Thanks for your very kind words regarding my just completed lens! Great site..LOVE tomatoes!! It is suppose to snow here on Thursday, so brought in all the tomatoes to finish ripening.
Debi
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- davidriebe davidriebe Sep 12, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
- Thanks for the lowdown on lycopene Chuck.More people should take advantage of it`s benefits.
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Week 12, tomatoes are coloring up on time..
Part 11, Week 12 Growing Tomatoes for Health and Wealth
http://2growtomatoes.info Color has arrived on our Tomato Patch. The Stupice and Early Girl Varieties have started to color and the Ace Variety will be right behind. This is the 12th week since planting.
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Part 2 First Planting March 2008
Part 2 Week 1, Growing Tomatoes for Health and Wealth
http://squidoo.com/tomatoesandwealth The Beginning of Our Tomato Project for Health & Wealth 2008. First Week Easter, 2008. Let's see what 24 Plants will do. I project a $1,000 net profit from this 10x30 plot
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