Tomatoes

Potting mix is what is advised by my gardner husband to plant tomatoes, because it contains peat moss and usually nutrients which will adhere to the roots and keep them moist and fed longer. The soil usually does not contain the substance which will hold moisture over longer periods of time. Water only when mix seems dry when you poke your finger down into the soil at the first joint.

Tomato plants get their nutrients from the soil. The absorb in into their system by using their roots. Tomato plants also need light and oxygen, which they get from their leaves.

Goodness, yes. A few tomato hornworms cans reduce a boisterous mature tomato plant to a green spray of sticks in a few days. They'll even eat the fruits. They're bad news for gardeners. You will know you have them by finding areas where foliage is gone leaving only stems. Just beneath this you'll find robust dark green turds that resemble miniature horse apples. They hide camouflaged perfectly on the bottoms of the leaves. I have good eyes for them, but I have a friend who said that if you spray water from a little spray bottle they'll wiggle and show themselves. BT is an organic way to rid yourself of them.

While it is possible to dice them for canning, they will become very mushy in consistency during the cooking process. It does enable more to be fitted into the jar if the final consistency isn't a problem.

Try this. Par boil them until the skin splits and remove from heat. Remove the skin and quarter them. This helps to see any bad spots that may be hidden inside the tomato. I used to can in mason jars but now I pour the tomatos into a quart size ziplock bag and freeze them flat. They freeze fast and take only minutes to thaw in warm water.

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very healthy

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It contains lycopene which is a powerful antioxidant.

Because they contain the seeds of the plant.

i would not say bad , to some , tomato skin cant be digested , and they would find some '' pieces '' in there stool , .... never the less , it has much nutrients in it .... the tomato skin i mean ..... not the stool ^.^

A tomato is a fruit and a pumpkin is a vegetable.

Yes and they are also related to you that's what they eat HUMANS!!!!!! ewww the cat pissed on me!!!!!!!

20" tall is what I've read. I just bought some and put them in pots on the deck. I'm hoping they will only be 20" tall.

to answer this for you, i have one plant in my garden , it is about 3 feet around and 25 to 30 inches high and going to yield about 40 to 50 tomatoes

because for one its in a bag and the water needs to keep cold and it needs sunlight and there is such thing as too much water.

The term "fruit" refers to a portion of a plant that is defined as a swollen/ ripen ovary containig seeds, under that definition a tomato is actually a fruit, the same applies to eggplants, apples, peaches, pairs, gooseberry, avocado etc.

"Vegetable" is normally described as an edible plant part, in most instances the roots or leaves of the plant (potato, lettuce, cabbage etc.)

Every bloom on a tomato plant CAN in fact produce a tomato. I polinate my plants by going from bloom to bloom and "tickling" them. My wife laughs at me for "fondling" my plants, but it works!

Tomatoes (or any fruit or veggie for that matter) do not have nerves and thus cannot feel pain.

According to Ron Hubbard, yes, they can.

Not much. If my memory serves me correctly (I used to work in the vegetable seed industry), it should be less than 15 grams, assuming the seed is raw and not coated.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe was created on 1987-08-12.

I would say yes. My cousins were heating some up and we were out of milk and they used the (last of) half and half. They gave me some and were making faces and smirking. I think they thought it would taste nasty, but it was quite good.

Because, the yellow seed had a substance that was unknown

You might need to go to a specialty store. Look for products that are labeled as gluten-free.

Your best option might be to make your own.

strawberries; tomatoes

yes. they do eat tomatose. i would suggest bug killer. but wash them off when you pick them

well i can say that they are and it helps you digest your food better and it adds a wonderful color to food

No. Tomatoes are actually fruits, and they grow as fruits, not in pods. All legume crops have the seeds grow in a pod, not in a soft, fleshy fruit similar to an apple or orange.