Tomatoes

If you eat as a daily meal I think it has 23 % of vitamin c

They were, because small tomatoes resembled the deadly nightshade family. Europeans were suspicious

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I don't know of a specific one you might be referring to, but in virtually every state where tomatoes are grown, there will be some kind of late summer "tomato festival".

plant into garden in the late spring after the last frost date for your area. The plant will grow over the summer and produce tomatoes until the first frost of the season (fall) kills it.

Tomatoes likely originated in the highlands of Peru. Wild tomato plants still grow in South America, as well as on the Galapagos Islands. At least one species was cultivated in southern Mexico by 500 BC. The first domesticated tomato may have been a small yellow fruit, similar in size to a cherry tomato, grown by the Aztecs of Central Mexico. Mayans developed larger, more irregularly shaped fruits. Hernán Cortés may have been the first to transfer the small yellow tomato to Europe from the Aztec city of Tenochtítlan, now Mexico City, in 1521. After the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish distributed the tomato throughout their colonies in the Caribbean. They also took it to the Philippines, from which it spread to southeast Asia and then the entire Asian continent. Tomatoes grew easily in Mediterranean climates, and cultivation began there in the 1540s. They were mentioned by Italian physician and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli in 1544, when he wrote that a new type of eggplant had been brought to Italy that was blood red or golden color when mature and could be eaten like eggplant (cooked and seasoned with salt, black pepper, and oil). On October 31, 1548, the house steward of Cosimo de' Medici, the grand duke of Tuscany, wrote to the Medici private secretary that the basket of tomatoes sent from the grand duke's Florentine estate at Torre del Gallo "had arrived safely," although tomatoes were grown mainly for decoration after their arrival in Tuscany. Tomatoes were grown in England by the 1590s. John Gerard, a barber/surgeon wrote about them in 1597, and knew the tomato was eaten in Spain and Italy, although he believed it was poisonous. The tomato was considered unfit for eating for many years in Britain and its North American colonies. The earliest cookbook with tomato recipes was published in Naples in 1692, although the author had apparently obtained these recipes from Spanish sources. In Florence, tomatoes advanced from tabletop decoration to cuisine in the late 17th or early 18th century. In 1710, herbalist William Salmon reported seeing tomatoes in what is now South Carolina. They may have been introduced from the Caribbean. By the mid-18th century, they were cultivated on some Carolina plantations, and probably in other parts of the Southeast as well. By the mid-18th century, tomatoes were also widely eaten in Britain, and before the end of that century, the tomato was enjoyed daily in soups, broths, and as a garnish. Thomas Jefferson, who ate tomatoes in Paris, sent some seeds back to America. The tomato was introduced to the Middle East and Asia by John Barker, British consul in Aleppo around 1799 to 1825. Tomatoes entered Iran through Turkey and Armenia, although the royal family may have been introduced to them in France. Alexander W. Livingston wanted to develop smooth, uniform, tasty tomatoes. He introduced the first of over 17 hybrid varieties in 1870, and the fruit became fleshier and larger. Several states in the southern United States became major tomato producers, particularly Florida and California.

tomato sauce after tasting it from three separate companies and doing the same with tomato paste i found out it was tomato sauce

lol, doubt it

Tomato Purée, enriches the flavour of the dish you're making. It strengthen the colour also, for example with a vegetable soup, tomato purée makes it richer tasting, more vibrant and thicken the sauce somewhat.

Hope that helps :)

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It varies on the size.

It is a fruit on the vine and a vegetable on your plate

It should be as long as it's not molding or severely wilted. Though I enjoy eating them fresh.

Pick Strawberries Day is a little known day dedicated to picking strawberries straight out of the strawberry patch and eating them. It is held on May 20th each year.

The acid in the tomato juice neutralizes the chemicals used to produce the odor by the skunk's butt!

No. They can KILL you. Haven't you seen the movie "Attack of the killer tomatoes?"

High temperatures is the flower killer for tomato plants. If you live in the south where temperatures hover in 90's for any extend length of time, you will want to plant a tomato plant that is breed for high heat.

No.

They can eat both, though they tend to enjoy pears more than tomatoes.

My experience with buying TopsyTurvy was a disaster. First, they offered two-fer-one, but the order form does not tell you how many to order against what you want to receive. Since there is NO communication method on the web site I went through the pain of writing to the domain owner and threatening legal action if they did not cancel my DOUBLE order. Then the (two-week delivery) shipment did not arrive for four weeks, so I called (on a Friday) and asked... I was told they were in the warehouse, and they would be processed that weekend, and I that I would have them within two weeks. Well, three weeks later they were dumped on my doorstep. One dropped off the hook with plant and soil as I was watering the first time. The side split, but I used complete cicles of duct tape and it's holding well. But the dense foam split circles that hold the plants in at the bottom have no accommodation for the plant stalks, so the plants have died from compression strangulation. Let's go back a bit... I looked at the pictures and thought to myself, I can do the same thing with a $2 plastic bucket and some soil! So I started without 'em... Shopping list: - Cheap plastic buckets, ONE bucket for each TWO plants you plan to plant. - Bags of tomato-specific-ready soil. I found that soil stayed blacker, looser and lighter than the other commercial soil I bought, which packed down fairly tight with watering. - time-released all-purpose fertiliser. - a drill-mounted device for cutting holes in doors for locks (the big hole). - a relatively small portion of white 1" styrofoam insulation, depends on how many buckets you plan to use. - Plants to work with. Up-end the bucket, put the hole-cutter into your drill, and cut two holes into opposite edges - the same edges as the bucket's handle attachments. Leave maybe 1/2 inch between the hole and where the bucket's bottom inside starts to turn vertical, for support for the styrofoam inside. Now turn the bucket right side up and with a sharp knife and a sawing action cut a circle of styrofoam the same size as the bucket bottom inside. Push it into the bucket, hold it against the bottom from inside, and up-end the bucket again so you can see the styrofoam through the holes you cut. Mark the approximate centers of the holes on the styrofoam with a pen - you could even just shove a pencil through each one. Remove the styrofoam and cut exactly in half in a straight line through these two marked centers, and with a sharp knife enlarge the spots where the marks are - to about the size of half a penny each. Put one half of the styrofoam back in the bucket, lined up with the holes in the bucket bottom. Now prepare two plants to be inserted - by knocking them gently out of the seedling pot and holding them loosely between the fingers, roots towards you. There should be one finger outside of the plant stalks and two fingers between the plant stalks. Again, hold loosely for wide spacing. Have someone hold the bucket for you (with the half-portion of styrofoam inside) or hang it securely at an appropriate height, and lower the plants so the two plant stems fit into the two half-penny grooves you cut into the styrofoam. Still holding the plant stems, fit the other half of the styrofoam so the two half-penny cut-outs surround the stems. Let the plants drop into the styrofoam hole to the point where the root ball is holding it, and start adding soil around the edges until the root ball is held firmly in place. Continue adding soil to about halfway up the bucket, add a small sprinkling of the slow-release fertiliser, and continue to fill the bucket with soil. Add a couple of drops of dishwasher detergent and a bit more slow-release fertiliser, soak the soil well with water, and you're done. Hang the buckets on shepherds crooks or sturdy garden hanger - the hook must be able to hold a full bucket of water in weight. Some notes: - Make sure the penny holes in the styrofoam are big enough they do not squeeze the plant stalks being accommodated. - Water once a day, but give a good soaking once a week (especially tomatoes) - If adding soil at the top afterwards, use the hose jet to really stir it up because fresh soil may hold dry pockets. - Decide what your budget is and stick to it. Be forewarned that soil can get expensive - but the better it is the more spectacular the results. - If you have a back-yard fence, check your local nursery for a P-shaped bent metal rod device that allows you to hang plants off the vertical boards... small and effective. - If hanging on shepherds-crooks, mount them back-to-back and join at the top and middle with nylon ties so the weight of each counters the other (singly, the vertical shafts bend and the shepherds-crook wants to keel over with the weight, especially after watering). I'm growing upside down tomatoes and strawberries (those will move into the ground soon for wintering), and they are doing well. I am also growing herbs in the tops of the tomato buckets, with great success, those do help shade the soil from drying out. If I can find time to move my pictures from my camera to my computer I'll make a web page to show you my upside-down bucket plants!! ** The "do it yourself" bucket method does work much better. people have been growing upside down for years before they started marketing the topsy turvey hunk of junk We were intrigued by the Topsy Turvy and went all-out--we placed a 12', 4X4" post in the ground in concrete, then hung heavy-duty hooks to hold four planters. It has not been good. We live in Kansas, and the plants keep breaking off where the stem enters the dirt--it's just too windy here. The plants are about 5' off the ground, and they really take a beating. We hoped that once they got big enough, they would withstand the wind. Today we lost our biggest plant--probably close to 2' if it had been upright. We're very disappointed in the results.

It contains lycopene that is found in a plant pigment and phytochemical which reduces the risk of cancer and contains vitamin C.

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