Rudolf Steiner in ‘Agriculture’ Made some fascinating feedback concerning tomatoes.
“Now, there’s nonetheless one particularly vital topic I need to point out. I wish to ask you to hold out very exact experiments this space, experiments which can be prolonged to incorporate human beings, in the event that they occur to love this meals. You realize that tomatoes had been launched as a meals solely comparatively lately. Many individuals are very keen on them, however they arc additionally an awfully vital factor to check. You possibly can be taught a unprecedented quantity by finding out tomato manufacturing and consumption. Individuals who have given the matter a little bit of thought — and there definitely are such folks these days — imagine hat tomato consumption is extremely important for human beings. This true, and it may be mentioned for animals, for it might be fairly doable for animals to get used to consuming tomatoes.
Tomatoes have a major impact on all the things that tends to separate itself from the organism and develop an unbiased group inside the physique. Two issues comply with from this. On the one hand, it confirms the assertion of an American researcher, specifically, that beneath sure circumstances, including tomatoes to the weight-reduction plan can have a helpful impact on an unhealthy human liver. As a result of the liver is the organ that works most independently within the human physique, when the liver is diseased, particularly in animals, it might even be handled normally with tomatoes. Right here we acquire perception into the relationship between crops and animals. Then again, subsequently — let me say this in parenthesis — folks recognized as having most cancers ought to instantly be forbidden to eat tomatoes, as a result of most cancers from its very inception makes a sure a part of the human or animal physique unbiased of the remainder of the organism.
However now we have to ask ourselves, why tomatoes particularly have such a robust impact on all the things that tends to be unbiased, on all the things that specializes and separates itself off from the remainder of the organism? This tendency is instantly associated to what tomatoes choose and require for their very own progress. Tomatoes really feel most at house when they’re given manure or compost that’s as dose as doable to the shape by which it comes from the animal or different supply. They like uncooked compost that hasn’t had a lot likelihood to he remodeled by pure processes. In case you simply throw all types of scraps collectively onto an untidy heap, and provides the heap no additional therapy or preparation you’ll discover that essentially the most stunning tomatoes will develop there. And it you had been to make use of compost comprised of tomato crops, that’s, in case you had been to let the tomatoes develop of their personal compost, they might develop even higher. Tomatoes don’t have any want to step outdoors of themselves, no want to step outdoors of the realm of sturdy vitality. That’s the place they need to keep. They arc the least social beings in your entire plant kingdom They don’t need something from strangers, and above all, they do nor need any fertilizer that has gone by a composting course of; they reject all that. That is the explanation that they will affect what works independently inside the human or animal organism.
And on this respect, potatoes are considerably just like tomatoes They too act extraordinarily independently, that’s to say, they have a tendency to go very simply by the entire digestive course of after which enter the mind and make it unbiased; they make it unbiased even of the influences of the opposite organs within the human physique. From the time potatoes had been first grown in Europe, extreme potato consumption has contributed towards making human beings and animals materialistic We must always eat solely sufficient potatoes in order that our mind and our head normally are stimulated. Potato consumption in specific shouldn’t be overdone. Realizing these items brings agriculture into intimate relationship with society in an goal means. And that is what’s so vital, that agriculture he associated to the entire of social life.”
Here’s what Carol Williams says about tomatoes in one among my favorite books, Bringing a Backyard to Life.
“When there isn’t any extra likelihood of frost, it’s time to set out tomato crops. There’s extra lore about rising tomatoes than about any backyard plant I know. I feel it’s because even after 4 hundred years of cultivation within the northern hemisphere, tomatoes nonetheless have an unique, magic high quality—their fruit so invitingly shiny and scarlet, but a bit toxic when inexperienced, their progress rampant and wild. Gardeners assume they should trick them into submission.
Tomatoes, in contrast to different backyard crops, can thrive in their very own particles. I develop mine within the identical mattress far a number of years.. (If I had tomato pests or illnesses 1 would transfer them, however this has not but occurred.) An excessive amount of manure will make tomatoes put out many leaves however not a lot fruit; a bit of is all proper, blended with half— rotted compost and maybe some wooden ash. The small crops should be set deeply into the bottom, a bit of at a slant, to develop sturdy roots. If a number of pairs of leases have already fashioned, one can snip oft all hut the highest pair and bury the stem it can turn out to be root.”
In ‘Rising Bio-Dynamic Greens beneath Australian Situation’ Charley Sievers has this to say:
“A particular gross feeder, particular in that they like uncooked manure and tolerate few different crops It actually could be very unhealthy to plant them close to peaches. In addition to uncooked manure they like compost comprised of tomatoes waste. Give a Valerian 507 seed bathtub and sow the standard means into seed bins. Spray 500 after sowing. When planting seedlings into ultimate place make a sloppy combine from recent cow manure and 500, put roots of seedlings into plant gap, pour in a bit of of the sloppy combination, then press soil round roots, so the plant stands up firmly. Give one other software of 500 when crops are prepared to maneuver and 501 simply earlier than the primary flowers are anticipated. Give one or two functions of 500 and 501 mixed in late afternoon throughout fruiting season. Sow on a fruit day. Spray 501 on a fruit day.
Make the mattress a fixture outdoors your vegetable backyard and use this 12 months in, 12 months out on your tomatoes.
Parsley is a companion plant for tomatoes and is grown on the tomato mattress, however annually on a unique spot.
If the everlasting mattress is in entrance of a shed or home wall going through north they’ll do exceptionally effectively.”
