How to grow ‘Dixie Red’ tomato plants? The Dixie Red hybrid tomato (as in the fruit) takes approximately 85 days after transplanting before it’s ready to harvest. The plant caters to high yields of red fruit – the fruits being between eight and 12 ounces each. That’s a little over the size of…
Enjoy a good tomato sauce that’s freshly made at home? Then you should be growing Roma cherry tomatoes! Read: Best tomato for sauces. The wonderful Roma tomato is also an excellent choice for salsa. Read: Best tomato for salsa. But Roma tomatoes are not just an excellent choice for sauces and…
The Stupice heirloom tomato plant originally hails from Czechoslovakia – now the Czech Republic. It’s an indeterminate tomato variety. It’s very early in terms of the fruit maturing. The fruits, which are particularly flavorful and weigh around 3 to 4 ounces each, are borne in clusters of five or more. Stupice provides early…
How to grow Celebrity tomato plants Here we’re discussing Celebrity tomatoes – plants and how to grow as opposed to using Celebrity tomatoes in recipes. The ‘Celebrity’ tomato plant should not be confused with the ‘Bush Celebrity’ tomato plant… ‘Bush Celebrity’ is particularly compact, and only reaches a height of around 15…
There are definite rewards to learning how to grow tomatoes indoors with lights. Will tomatoes grow indoors? Yes, they certainly will! And in this article, I’ll be covering how to grow all kinds of tomatoes indoors. After all, the growing ‘rules’ are pretty much the same for each, including: How to grow cherry tomatoes indoors…
How to grow ‘Campari’ tomato plants? Before we find out about growing ‘Campari’ tomatoes it’s worth noting that these tomatoes have many uses in the kitchen (or in the dining room, if you prefer). Are Campari tomatoes heirloom? No, not heirloom. Rather, Campari tomatoes are hybrid tomatoes that were bred to help fulfill…
Growing Beefmaster tomatoes – how do you grow the giant beefsteak – BEEFMASTER F1 tomato? Beefmaster tomato plant care The hybrid Beefmaster tomato plant has undergone some improvement in fairly recent times. It produces huge, red-colored beefsteak fruits which are relatively tolerant to cracking. The tomato is perfect for slicing and, because of this,…
Best tomato for salsa, singular… or the best tomatoes for salsa, plural, since here we’ll be discussing more than a single tomato variety… Best Tomatoes for Mexican Salsa In most regions of Mexico, the tomato variety of choice for making salsa, and it has been for centuries, is ‘Jitomate’. It possesses an oval…
Here, we’ll discuss – of course – the best tomato for sauces and we’ll also make mention of the best can tomatoes for sauce. The Best Tomatoes for Sauce? It Depends… Really, the best tomato (or tomatoes) for sauce is dependent on the type of sauce. In Italy,…
I’ve written a lot on this blog about tomatoes. I’ve written a lot on this blog more specifically about how to grow tomatoes. After all, this is a gardening blog. So, makes sense, right? Thing is, in a sense of the word, when you write a lot about something, or when you do something a…
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