Intensely Tomato!
Dry Land Farmed Tomatoes on the Vine.
Our wonderful dry land farmed tomatoes are now available at the market.
“What are dry land farmed tomatoes?” you might ask. They are the most delicious tomatoes available. Because they are grown with no supplemental water, they have a much more concentrated tomato flavor. Think “intensely tomato”.
Growing a crop with no supplemental water means that it is not irrigated. It gets only the amount of water that falls out of the sky.
How do we do dry land farm tomatoes? First, we begin with the right varieties. The roots of the plants will have to penetrate the soil many feet in order to continue finding water after the top layers dry out. Only a few tomato varieties have strong enough root systems to do this.
Second, we have the right kind of soil. This system only works with silty or clay soils. Sandy soils drain much too quickly for dry land farming.
Third, we spend many, many hours working the soil to ensure there are absolutely no weeds to compete for moisture. In the process we create a dust mulch on the top two inches of the soil. The dust mulch breaks any capillary action that may promote evaporation of the precious water. Our aim is to hold the moisture in the soil as long as possible.
Producing dry land farmed tomatoes is a lot of extra work. But the wonderful flavor is worth it.
