Tomato Plant Care

With Barbara Dombrowski

Barbara Dombrowski of Goose Cove Gardens is passionate about plants and gives us some more helpful information and tips on essential care for your garden tomatoes. Starting with the soil (well mixed compost and dirt with organic fertilizer), she explains to Heather Atwood the most common mistakes.

Heather Atwood of Food For Thought participated in this video. You can read her column in the Gloucester Times Lifestyle section every Wednesday or her blog at
http://www.heatheratwood.com.

From Food For Thought by Heather Atwood:

Barbara and Hilary Dombrowski started their organic nursery, then mostly herbs and edible flowers, in 1992, when organic fertilizers and materials were hard to find.  They expanded in 1996 up the street and now have eight greenhouses. Barbara raises everything - perrenials, annuals, vegetables -  in her nursery by seed.  In dismal, hopeless March Barbara and her crew begin the season planting thousands of seeds into thousands of little pots.

Hilary is the cook, and Barbara is the gardener; both are fairly strict about eating organically. Barbara goes to her own garden to see what’s ripe, returns to their house next door and hands them to Hillary, who will probably start sauteeing some onion in olive oil.  He’ll add chopped garlic, then that harvested tomato; the final destination for that pan-full of daily catch will probably be a pile of pasta.

Contact Heather at heatheraa@aol.com. Her blog is at gloucestertimes.com/foodforthought