Growing Tomatoes

One thing that I like to do when planting tomatoes is to dig a deep post hole where each tomatoe will be planted and fill it with compost. Tomatoes seem to run out of nutrients later in the season otherwise. This also gets organic matter deeper into the soil over time. (This is a small scale "carbon sequestration" that removes carbon from the atmosphere and sequesters it in the soil. Actually anything that increases the amount of organic matter in the soil serves to sequester carbon for a period of time. The more carbon that is in the soil, the less there is in the atmosphere.)

Rotating the location of tomatoes is also important to prevent viral and fungal diseases. There is a pretty good overview of these diseases at

http://gardening.about.com/od/vegetablepatch/a/TomatoProblems.htm

I do not know if all of their recommendations are organic.