Tomatoes, a fresh picked, vine ripened, home-grown taste of summer.
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Varieties
Taste tested home garden tomatoes
- Best Home Garden Tomatoes: Hillbilly or Flame Tomato
- Best Home Garden Tomato: Royal Hillbilly
- Pompeii – Italian tomato from seed
- Best tomatoes from seed: Copia heirloom
- Tomatoes varieties for the new gardener
- Best Black Heirloom Tomato plants from seed: Paul Robeson
- Best heirloom tomato from seed: Roma Rio Grande paste tomatoes
- Best Home Garden Tomatoes: Chocolate Amazon
- Grow Indigo Rose tomato and other blue food
- Best Home Garden Tomatoes: Granny Cantrell German beefsteak
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Cherries
– The earliest tomatoes, including pear tomatoes
• sun-dried Cherry Tomatoes In dehydrater
• How to Dry Cherry and Pear tomatoes fast
• Make sun-dried tomatoes to use up cherries
• Cherry tomatoes are first to ripen
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Tomato Seed
– More choices when and how to grow plants from seed
• Starting tomatoes from seed
• Seed starting, growing and storing Basil
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Tomato troubles
Tomato problems and solutions
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Planting
– Proper planting can help your plants survive the coming heat and draught
- Hardening off tomato plants
- NEW How to make more tomato plants for free
- Plant tomatoes the right way
- Grow a spaghetti sauce theme garden in a 4′ x 4′ raised bed
- Make more tomato plants by cloning
- Top Tomato Tips: How to Plant Tomatoes
- Win the earliest tomato contest
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Definitions
– Understanding tomato terms and definitions
♦ Potato Leaf or Regular Leaf Tomato Varieties Plants, which is Best?
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History
– The South American fruit had to travel to Europe and back again before it was accepted in North America.
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Tomatoes are everybody’s favorite home-grown vegetable. The very first tomatoes were probably yellow.
Historians have traced the tomato’s origins back as far as 700 AD in the South American region where the Aztecs lived.
The species originated in the South American Andes. originally used as food in Mexico, the tomato seed was carried back to Spain.
The South American fruit had to travel to Europe and back again before it was accepted in North America.
As the seed came back across the sea to North America, it was grown as an ornamental. Being a member of the nightshade family, people believed the tomato was poisonous.
Coming soon – The Tomato Pages Recipes
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