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Tomatoes
A tomato is a red fruit popular in many cuisines worldwide. The United States recognizes the ingredient as a vegetable but because of its seeds, many consider it a fruit.
1,054 Questions
How do tomato plants bear tomatoes?
They flower and then the flower dies off to be replaced by the fruit (the tomato).
Wil tomato plants come back in the spring?
Tomato is an annual, meaning it will not last after more than one season. Once it has flowered and produced its fruit, it has no more usefulness, so can be composted.
Next spring, either plant tomato seeds in seeding pots before transplanting, or purchase tomato plants from your local garden centre, or if you have success before, plant seeds directly in the garden, depending on your location.
What is the difference between cooked tomatoes and stewed tomatoes?
It is a canned tomato product where the tomatoes were cooked with onion and celery and sometimes spices before canning.
Do green tomatoes weigh more than ripe tomatoes?
According to M. Night Shymalan, Red is a bad colour and yellow is a good colour.
-On a more serious note, yellow tomatoes in my opinion are more sweet than red ones and the skin of yellow tomatoes are thicker
How many tomatoes is 8 quarts of tomatoes?
to give you an idea, a gallon of water which is 4 quarts weighs roughly 8 pounds. Although a tomato is mostly water, there is some other factors there as well. If i would guess i would say all eight quarts ( 2 gallons) weighs between 16 and 18 pounds
How long does unopened tomato paste last?
it should say on the "use by" date near the top. if its not there, it is usually around 2 years
What organelle in a tomato plant gives the tomato its red color?
the color pigments are known as chromoplast
Will newly planted tomato plants grow back after tops are eaten?
Yes, they can. I just had two delicate heirloom seedlings come back from the dead after being eaten just a couple of days after transplant, with no effort or care from me. Leave the roots, and they should grow back!!
Tomatos are generaly red in color (there are exceptions) they are generaly a palm size round fruit that is soft by compairison with other round fruits such as apples and oranges. The skin is smooth and at the top there is ether a stem or a dimple where the stem use to be and the stem demple might vary in color from brown to yellow.
There are other types such as cherry tomatos that are much smaller than palm and there are types that are more oblong than round but most have rounded shape smooth skin and are very soft and red.
They are picked in the field and sent to a tomato processing plant. At the plant they are steamed, crushed, or chopped depending on if they are going to become paste, sauce or left whole or canned.
What color is reflected by a tomato?
Tomatoes come in every colour under the sun. There are reds, oranges, pinks, yellows, blacks, browns, purples, whites, greens, bi-colours and striped. Run a search for "heirloom tomatoes" and you will get some good pictures to look at.
That they are an organic mulch that affects soil pH and soil structure is the reason that dried papaya leaves are an effective choice in terms of tomato plants.
Specifically, foods and soils may have a pH that is acidic, alkaline or neutral. Papaya is an alkalinizing food. Its dried leaf mulch somewhat raises a soil pH. The result is a soil pH that is heading more towards the neutral range around 6.0 - 6.5 or 7.0. It actually is in that neutral range that many plants prefer the soil pH to be
Additionally, organic mulch contributes to soil structure. That means that the soil becomes better drained, healthier and more fertile through the breakdown of natural materials. Good drainage, fertility and health make for happier, healthier plants in general and tomatoes in particular in this instance.
How much water does a cherry tomato plant need each week?
This will depend on many things.
Soil, temperature, humidity etc.
The plant will grow at different rates at different times in it's life, for instance just after it is planted out it will sit still until the roots have established in the new situation then watch it grow.
The best attribute a grower can have is patience.
If a recipe calls for 1 lb of tomatoes how many tomatoes is that?
well theres alot of diffrent kind of tomatoes so that's hard to answer but I'd say around...4or5 (rough estimate)
When a recipe calls for 1 lb. You use 4 medium size tomatoes, 9- 10 inches around.
You can guesstimate peaches or apples this way too.
I have a recipe that calls for a lug of tomatoes as a measure. What is a lug?
A lug is a container for packing items. It is 161/8 x 13 1/4. When used for tomatoes it holds approximately 32 lbs.
A good rule of thumb is to water when the top 1" is dry and water early in the day and do not splash water on the plant. Soak to encourage deep root growth
What animals eat tomatoes at night?
Invertebrates and vertebrates are the animals that eat tomato plants. Examples of invertebrates include aphids, blister beetles, cutworms, earwigs, flea beetles, horn-worms, Japanese beetles, leaf-footed bugs, leaf-hoppers, nematodes, potato beetles, slugs, snails, stink bugs, tomato fruit-worms, two-spotted spider mites, white-flies, and wire-worms. Vertebrates range from chipmunks to deer, mice, rabbits, raccoons, rats, squirrels, voles, and woodchucks.
Genetics determine the color of a tomato..
Generally a tomato turns red as it becomes ripe.
Tomatos come in several colors depending on the type of plant..
Red,yellow,orange and of course green.
What are the vitamins give by tomato?
Tomatoes contain various kinds of ingredients. Here are some of them:
* Lycopene, one of nature's most powerful antioxidants. It is beneficial to fight different kind of diseases, most of all to fight cancer. * Fiber in tomatoes prevents diabetes, asthma, colon cancer, and lowers the amount of cholesterol from the body. * Vitamin C and A, antioxidants which fight free radical. They fight against aging, soothe skin and hair. * Potassium, vitamin B6, folate, and niacin have proven effect in lowering cholesterol level, lowering blood pressure and works against heart disease. * Vitamin K in tomatoes helps to build bone. * Chromium and biotin make the body's ability to process sugar and fat, which may improve fighting diabetes and help nerve function. * Riboflavin helps with energy metabolism and fights against migraine headaches.
6 pounds of tomatoes how many cups?
The number of slices in one tomato would depend upon: how thick each slice was, how sharp the knife creating the slices, and how many times a person chose to make slices in a tomato. Also how large or how small the tomato is. One may say the answer is the whim of the person slicing the tomato.
Who is the woman who died in Fried Green Tomatoes?
Idgie when portrayed as the younger woman and Ninny Threadgoode, as the storyteller. Evelyn Couch is the lady who the story is being told to.
