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Tips And Tricks For Prize-Winning Tomatoes This Year
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Tips And Tricks For Prize-Winning Tomatoes This Year
In a new series of articles, we will be featuring some of the most common (and maybe a few not so common) garden vegetables and how you can get the most bountiful harvest of them in your garden. And for our first featured veggie, we decided to go with what is perhaps the most popular amongst gardeners – the tomato.
Fruit or Vegetable?
Technically – botanically – a tomato is a fruit. In fact, so are many of the so-called “veggies” that we gardeners enjoy growing.
Politically however, it’s a different story. In 1893, the Supreme Court ruled the tomato a vegetable in order to be able to levy duties on imported tomatoes as “foreign vegetables.” In subsequent years, other produce which are technically fruit were also “ruled” vegetables. Oddly, rhubarb – a vegetable – was ruled to be a fruit. Weird, huh?
Tomato Varieties
If you’ve been to a nursery lately, you have probably seen a dozen or more varieties of tomato plants available. But did you know that according to the US Department of Agriculture, there are more than 25,000 varieties of tomatoes?
Tomatoes come in many different sizes and colors, from bright red, to orange and yellow – even purple! They range from meaty to juicy and from sweet to tart.
So how do you choose what to plant? You must first consider how much space you have to grow them and what your climate is like. Different tomatoes will do better in different environments. Check to see what varieties your local nursery is selling, as this will give you a good indication of what might work for your area and do a bit of reading on the variety you are considering.
If your area has been struck with common tomato diseases in the last few years – such as late blight or root-knot nematode, you may also want to choose a variety that has some resistance to these problems.
Starting Your Seeds
If you are starting your tomatoes from seeds, you’ll get best results from starting them indoors approximately 6-8 weeks before the last frost. Seeds should be planted in moist, sterile seed-starting soil about ¼ inch deep.
Keep young seedlings under a grow light or in a south-facing window…..More Here
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