Tomatoes

Tomatoes are one of the most versatile vegetables there are and certainly one of the most popular choices of plants among gardeners. I have been growing my own tomatoes for a few years now and find that they taste so much nicer than mass-produced supermarket tomatoes. ♦♦ TOMATO PLANT FACTS ♦♦ Fruit or vegetable..? The tomato is something of a paradox: it tastes like a vegetable but is actually classified as a fruit. Because ...
...plants in pots. ♦♦ TOMATOES AND COMMON TYPES ♦♦ As with a lot of vegetables, tomatoes can either be eaten raw or cooked. The main types are: * Beefsteak - large, pumpkin-shaped tomatoes with a firm texture and sweet flavour. Ideal for slicing or cooking. * Yellow Cherry - cherry tomatoes with a sweet, almost lemony tang. Nice in salads. Yellow tomatoes are known to be sweeter than red. * Baby Cherry - small, dainty tomatoes ...

rowei 26.02.2006 · Read full review
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...rather boring. You can eat tomatoes as a pizza topping (my favourite), on top of tomato puree. You can use a tin of chopped tomatos as a really cheap (15p a tin!) pasta sauce, which of course you can spice up with herbs, mushrooms, meat and uh...whatever you like, really! A recipe I like to use (my own): Make up enough bread dough for about 2 pizzas, split it into 4 sections and roll it out into big flat circles. Then, start cooking tinned tomatoes, ...
...because the best thing about tomatoes is that they're so cheap that if you mess up it won't have been a waste of tomatos. ♥Other things to do with tomatos. Well, you can wait for them to rot and throw them at people you don't like, as they did in the olden days...(and sometimes now!) Or you can eat them as their most famous incarnation, TOMATO KETCHUP. I'm not saying this is as good for you as eating a raw tomato, but it's still better than ...

ellastar 29.08.2005 (06.09.2005) · Read full review
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First, some facts. Tomatoes are good food. They contain vitamin C, vitamin A, potassium and iron. They are packed with phytochemicals. What are phytochemicals? A very simple explanation is that our bodies can make use of them to help fight disease, including heart disease, cancers and viruses. Did you know that tomatoes are perennial plants? It's only in cooler climates, like ours, that we stop them growing. This ensures that what little fruit ...
...Tomatoes originated in South America and come from the same family as potatoes. You can graft a tomato plant onto a potato plant and harvest a crop from both. I was shown how to do this at school. It was confusing, as I'd also learnt that a tomato is a fruit and yet a potato is a vegetable. Or perhaps not. Potato seed comes from a fruit that looks very much like a tomato. Luckily it doesn't matter. You work it out if you like, but I'm getting bored ...

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Tomatoes are one of the easiest of the vegetables to grow at home fom seed and they are most certainly one of my favourites. In our country, they are grown as annuals, and if grown in the tropics, then they are grown as short lived perennials. Indeterminate types of tomatoes (mid-size, non bushy) has a very long trailing main stem, which may grow to as long as 8 feet and has vigorous side shoots. The shorter (semi-determinate) and bush (determinate) ...
...the many different types of tomatoes that are available, you can select for different colours. Tomatoes come in yellow, red, pink, orange or white. They are also available in a range of shapes from flat to round, and plum shaped to pear shaped. Currant tomatoes grow up to 1cm in diameter, cherry tomatoes can grow up to 2.5 cm in diameter ranging all the way up to the ribbed Marmande and giant beefsteak types, which can grow as large as 10 cm in diameter. ...

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...- lycopersicon esculentum=== Tomatoes are normally red and round shape fruits but as the market for them still grow there different varieties, callous and shapes. The first tomato came from Eastern Mexico and they first been grown by Aztecs. The tomatoes spared all over the world after Spain made their great discoveries of America. And from about 18th century tomatoes has been eaten nearly all over the world. In Brittan first tomato has been grown ...
...world and produce 32000 tomatoes. Tomatoes are very good for you, they are high in nutrients and containing high level of vitamin and as we all know they are low in calories. One tomato can contain: 5mg of calcium, 0.5mg of iron, 11mg of magnesium, 19.1mg of vitamin, and the list can go on and on. I enjoy to grow them and specially to eat them. When I was a little girl my mum had a greenhouse and she always grow own tomatoes. When I started my ...

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...Dad always grew his own tomatoes in his greenhouse, tending them with loving care. He showed me how to nip out the side shoots so that the plants did not grow straggly. I loved the smell in the greenhouse, and picking the ripe red fruit. He used to favour a variety which is still available today, and that was 'Moneymaker'. I try to grow Tomatoes every year now that I have my own little greenhouse, even though looking after them is quite time consuming ...
...these are lovely even-sized cherry tomatoes and so tasty, they are easily available , at seedshops and gardencentres and even car boot sales. There are some bushy little tomato plant varieties that don't need the side shoots nipping out, though sometimes I have found I need to nip the end off as they keep growing so the tomatoes are not ripening - presumably because the plant is putting all its strength into growing and not into making the tomatoes. ...

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...out of places to put tomatoes and things to do with them. Visitors to the house depart with a carrier bag full of tomatoes and frankly, people have stopped coming, or if they have to come they try and make arrangements to come when the tomatoes will not be multiplying themselves quite so rapidly. Double glazing salesmen give the house a miss, and no one has offered to tarmac the drive for weeks. I suppose I’d better explain how it happened, hadn’t ...
...year I grew six cordon tomatoes along the side of the greenhouse that didn’t have staging. Earlier in the year I added staging to that side of the greenhouse. I promise that I won’t do things, you see, and then I end up doing them because someone gives me the plants or they looked such good value at a charity stall at the village fete. Obviously I couldn’t succumb to temptation if I didn’t have the space to grow cordon tomatoes! So, in early May, ...

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...my part of the world, tomatoes grown outdoors are a gamble, a bit of fun, and if the weather gets ‘em, too bad, try again next year! If you have a greenhouse, or at a push, a conservatory, you have the option of a wide range of indoor varieties. And don’t be afraid to combine the two. I often grow outdoor varieties in my polytunnel, with good results. And with smaller, bush varieties you can move them out during the best of the summer, but bring ...
...Cordon or Bush? Traditionally, tomatoes have been cultivated as cordons, ie grown on a single stem. But many bush varieties are now available, particularly for outdoor growing, and these avoid the need for the constant removal of sideshoots. Keep an eye open, too, for trailing and miniature varieties which can be grown in hanging baskets. My experience (and success!) with outdoor tomatoes has been rather limited due to this Scottish climate, so ...

Aspen 18.03.2001 (09.08.2002) · Read full review
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...The History Tomatoes are native to South and Central America and were first cultivated by both the Atzecs and the Incas as long ago as 700 AD. The word "tomato" derives from "tomatl," its name in Nahuatl, the ancient language of the Aztec people. Tomatoes were first brought to Europe by the Spaniards during the 16th Century following their conquest of South America and the Tomato soon became popular in Europe due to its easy cultivation and versatility. ...
...of Tomatoes which range in size from tiny marble sized "Cherry" varieties to giant "Beefeater" varieties. Their colour can range from yellow to purple but most of us will think of a tomato as being , bright orange-red in colour and round in shape. Some Facts - Tomatoes have the botanical name "'lycopersicon lycopersicum" which literally means wolf-peach. They are related to Aubergines, Red and Green Peppers, Ground Cherry, and Potatoes, but their ...

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Tomatoes have always been thought of as a vegetable by most people, including the category managers of Ciao and Dooyoo. The tomato is technically a berry and therefore a fruit. Tomatoes are also delicious and healthy. They contain reasonably high levels of Vitamin A and C, aswell as Vit E when eaten raw. They also contain potassium and calcium, which are good for lowering blood pressure and important for health bones and teeth, respectively. They ...
...at 700 AD. The first tomatoes were yellow and cherry-sized and were referred to as “golden apples” or “pommes d'or” in French, pomi d'oro in Italian and “goldapfel” in German. So as you can see even then it was known as a fruit and still bears these characteristics, in it’s name, until today. Growing tomatoes has always been a challenging feat. Most tomatoes are grown in glass houses because they are very ...

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...Summer season you can buy tomatoes extremely cheaply so why grow your own? Well the simple answer is for the taste! When you pick your own tomatoes from the garden, bring them inside, wash them and bite into them you will know straight away why you are growing these plants. The tomatoes are so full of taste compared to the mass produced tasteless red spheres that you get from the local supermarket. Each year (during May) I buy three or four plants ...
...fruit is forming then the tomatoes shrink and then burst when it rains or the plants are watered. Some tomato plant growers are obsessed with the care of the plants, but the new hybrid plants are extremely robust and most of the time can look after themselves. Traditionally any side shoots that grow are cut off. Side shoots are where the plant grows extra shoots above an existing shoot. It is believed that these sap the strength of the plant and ...

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If you thought that all tomatoes were much the same in colour and shape, you'd be wrong. These are just a few of the more unusual varities which are sometimes know as heritage, or heirloom varieties. The Black Krim is an unusual tomato. This rare tomato has purple to black skin and reddish-black flesh. It is a large tomato with a slightly irregular surface. Most black tomatoes come from Russia and this one originates from the Island of Krim which ...
...are few seeds in these tomatoes which makes them great for sandwiches and gardeners like them because they get a lot of fruit from each plant. Black Tula tomatoes are a dark coloured reddish-brown tomato with a rich deep flavour to match. It is of Russian origin. Each fruit can weigh up to 12 ounces and the verde puebla tomatillo has a husk that feels like paper. This is removed before eating. Their flavour is sweet but they have a tart tang to them ...

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...great crop of delicious tasting tomatoes and a new hobby for me – vegetable gardening. The variety he gave me and in fact still does is Gardener’s Delight. These are small cherry like tomatoes with an excellent flavour. I have since tried several other varieties but none has matched Gardeners’s Delight for yield and flavour. I tried a cherry plum tomato last year hoping it would be like M& S Santolini but all I got was a couple ...
...Growing tomatoes is very easy. If you want to grow them from seed they need to be sown in February or March at the latest otherwise you can buy young plants from a garden centre. Although many people do grow tomatoes in grow bags I prefer to grow them in individual pots. I think the taller pots used for roses are particularly good. I didn’t get on with grow bags because I couldn’t get canes to stand up in them and pots are easier to ...

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Tomatoes Tomatoes make me happy. Their rosy hues and delicate aroma as they hang on furry green stems fills my heart with happiness. There is nothing in the world I like more than sliced beef tomatoes, full of flavour, sprinkled with a little salt, a little fresh ground black pepper, and a few ripped basil leaves. Mmmm. Delicious. Cherry tomatoes I could eat like they were sweeties, and invariably do! This week, in our fortnightly veg bag (we do ...
...filled with tiny, juicy, cherry tomatoes which are so sweet and full of flavour that you really can pop them in like sweets and feel the juicy sweetness explode. Not even Willy Winka could create a better taste sensation! Tomatoes have incredibly good health benefits, many of which are not really talked all that much about. But one of the reasons that the Italians, for example, are so healthy is their consumption of tomatoes. Lycopene is a disease ...

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...a few good types of tomatoes which will bring you a good yield. I find that the Money-maker and the Histon Early, but there are other types too. The Amateur can be grown in a greenhouse, along with the Early Market and the Harbinger. Any are good but the money-maker will give you a good crop. Seeds are usually sown about an inch apart in something like John Innes compost and can then be transferred to the pots, beds or outdoor boxes when taller. ...
...crops. Don’t forget that most tomatoes plants grow tall and will need propping up with bamboo supports, tie these to the stem but only loosely so as not to damage the stem. Remember tomatoes love water and air so make sure they are regularly checked for both, tomato food can be given if you like to promote growth. When the plants have produced around seven trusses of flowers pinch out the tip of shoots to promote swelling of the fruit, if this ...

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