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Tomatoes - 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 by John Gerard. As I was reading I find out that the biggest tomato tree is growing inside the WaltDisney Resort’s in Lake Buena Vista and this is the biggest single tomato plant in the 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 own family and move away from my mum’s I was buying tomatoes from shop. And I have to say that the shop ones are horrible - they don’t smell like my mums and taste different. So after a got sorted with my own plot I got myself a greenhouse and started to grown my own. It a great fun to grow them even my 6 old boy like to do them- starting them from tinny seed to a juicy crop. The tomato seeds can be obtained from nearly every supermarket- I’m buying them from Wilkinson for 0.99p. And always got a good crop. But if you don’t like to seed them you can buy young plants form the garden centre or even on line. I like to grow them as there is so many different type of tomato. This year I am trying black ones and yell ones- just wonder how they taste?There is quiet long list of different kinds of tomatoes but my favourite is the money maker which I grow every year. There are three categories of tomato varieties:
greenhouses - _amberly cross, big boy, eurocross, white, golden sunrise, grower’s pride, grenadier, pixie.
outdoors - _alias Craig, alicante, best of all, craigella, gardner’s delight, sub-arctic plenty, sweet 100, yellow perfection, money maker, MM, money cross, outdoor girl.
Every year in end of February I start to seed them. I am using 12 cell seed tray and hombase compost (can’t remember the name but is it the purple bag). I am placing one seed in each cell and placing the tray on the shelf in my greenhouse. I’m only heating my greenhouse when is very cold and only at night and to germination temperature of tomatoes is above 10C. The seeds should germinate within 2 weeks. When the young plants start to show the true leaf it is time to transplant them to a bigger pot. I’m using a 5 inch pots and still hombase compost. And every two weeks I will water them with the liquid manure to help them to grow. But they need to be water every day. When they start to show the flowers I transplant them to the 15 inch pots with my own mix of compost- that is 3x3x3 of manure, hombase compost and loam from my garden. But you can buy special tomato compost from the shop. And place the pot on the ground when they will stay all the time. Water every day and once every week they will have liquid manure. But if you can’t get the manure you can use tomato feed. As I using a greenhouse to grow them, the tomatoes will need little help with pollination. It is not hard actually very easy- just spray the plants and the air with water. To look after them - water every day, every 5 days check for side shoots and remove them, support the plants with a bamboo cone.
Even without a garden, small quantities of tomatoes can be grown in pots, troughs, peat bags or even rings on the patios and balconies. Give regular liquid feeds as well as watering frequently. If using peat bags, water exactly according to manufactory’s instructions.
There is quiet few pest and diseases:Tomato moth , Caterpillars, Eelworm, Red spider mite, Whitefly, leaf mould , Grey mould , Water or ghost spot , Potato blight , Vertically wilt , Greenback, Blotchy ripening, Stem rot, Blossom end rot, Virus .
Marigolds help to ripen whiteflies and one of the most common of tomatoes pests and some commercial growers have marigolds in their tomato greenhouses.
RECEPY
Salad You will need: Beijing Cole, 1 cucumber, 3 tomatoes, onion and apple and sweet corn and chives. You will have to chop everything in small peaces and mix everything in the bowl with sweet corn. Then add chives and season well with salt and pepper.
Enjoyed!
aggy
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Advantages: Wonderful smell, taste and goes perfectly with tomatoes for a divine salad sensation! Disadvantages: It's an annual that likes a but of sun. And I live in The Dark North!!!
phoenixgreen 26.05.2007 (25.05.2007)
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