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…
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…
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,…
How do I grow ‘Solar Fire’ tomatoes? Are Solar Fire tomato plants determinate or indeterminate? Determinate. Are Solar Fire tomato plants resistant to disease? Solar Fire is resistant to Verticillium and Fusarium wilt and to gray leaf spot. Solar Fire is a hybrid tomato plant. Not to be confused with the beefsteak…
Not to be confused with Best Boy, Better Boy, a hybrid tomato plant, is prized by many gardeners given its relatively quick time to maturity (the fruits ripen within 70 and 75 days after transplanting the plants). The fruits have lovely smooth skin and a classic flavor with, what to many is just about the…
How do you grow ‘Golden Boy’ tomatoes cultivar? Here are some key facts about this tomato plant and its fruits, just to make your mouth water: ‘Golden Boy’ tomato plants grow to between 6 and 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4m) in height. As such, staking or caging is required unless you wish your plants…
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