Paste tomatoes are more meaty, have fewer seeds and are great for making sauces and salsa.
Beefsteak tomatoes are very flavorful but do not store well.
Cherry tomatoes repel tomato fruitworm because of their thicker skin.
If indoor seedlings are becoming spindly, they're either getting too much heat or not enough light.
It is best not to plant your tomato crop in the same garden spot in consecutive years.
A couple of weeks before planting time, place black plastic over the tomato bed to warm the soil.
When buying transplants, look for stocky, dark green plants that are free of yellowing leaves, blooms and small fruits.
Do not smoke or use tobacco products when working with tomato seeds or plants to prevent tobacco mosaic virus.
Do not put too much nitrogen in the soil before plants set fruit, it promotes heavy foliage at the expense of fruit.
Once the fruiting starts, nitrogen will be needed again.
Cutting up banana peels and burying them around the tomato plant will provide another source of phosphorus and potassium.
Tomato blossoms are pollinated by insects, wind and vibration (shaking).
Tomatoes that ripen when exposed to full sun will have more flavor than those that ripen in the shade of the plant's foliage.
Among vine-ripened tomatoes, the smaller the variety, the better the flavor.
Excessive heat during the hot months of summer will cause fewer fruits to set.
Keep up the mulching and watering to overcome this.
Low temperatures in the early fall can cause tomatoes to crack.
Like sweet corn, tomatoes begin to lose flavor the moment they are picked.
A month or so before the first frost of the fall, remove all blossoms and fruit too small to ripen in time.
All of the plant's energy will be directed to ripening the remaining tomatoes.
Good companion plants for tomatoes are asparagus, basil, cabbage, carrots, celery, chives, lettuce, lima beans, marigolds, mint, nasturtiums, onions, parsley, radishes, and spinach.
Potatoes and tomatoes do not get along at all.
The foliage of tomato plants are poisonous.
Beefsteak tomatoes are very flavorful but do not store well.
Cherry tomatoes repel tomato fruitworm because of their thicker skin.
If indoor seedlings are becoming spindly, they're either getting too much heat or not enough light.
It is best not to plant your tomato crop in the same garden spot in consecutive years.
A couple of weeks before planting time, place black plastic over the tomato bed to warm the soil.
When buying transplants, look for stocky, dark green plants that are free of yellowing leaves, blooms and small fruits.
Do not smoke or use tobacco products when working with tomato seeds or plants to prevent tobacco mosaic virus.
Do not put too much nitrogen in the soil before plants set fruit, it promotes heavy foliage at the expense of fruit.
Once the fruiting starts, nitrogen will be needed again.
Cutting up banana peels and burying them around the tomato plant will provide another source of phosphorus and potassium.
Tomato blossoms are pollinated by insects, wind and vibration (shaking).
Tomatoes that ripen when exposed to full sun will have more flavor than those that ripen in the shade of the plant's foliage.
Among vine-ripened tomatoes, the smaller the variety, the better the flavor.
Excessive heat during the hot months of summer will cause fewer fruits to set.
Keep up the mulching and watering to overcome this.
Low temperatures in the early fall can cause tomatoes to crack.
Like sweet corn, tomatoes begin to lose flavor the moment they are picked.
A month or so before the first frost of the fall, remove all blossoms and fruit too small to ripen in time.
All of the plant's energy will be directed to ripening the remaining tomatoes.
Good companion plants for tomatoes are asparagus, basil, cabbage, carrots, celery, chives, lettuce, lima beans, marigolds, mint, nasturtiums, onions, parsley, radishes, and spinach.
Potatoes and tomatoes do not get along at all.
The foliage of tomato plants are poisonous.
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