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My Tomatoes & Peppers for this season

Got to do a better job of keeping the beds clean

tomatoes off to a good start

Fresh tomatoes!

Cherokee Purple Heirloom tomatoes

Tomato

Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) are valuable garden plants in that they require relatively little space for large production. Each plant, properly cared for, yields 10 to 15 pounds or more of fruit.

Planting

Tomatoes are warm-season plants that grow best at temperatures of 70 to 80 °F during the day and 60 to 70 °F [...]

TOMATO CULTURE — Botany of the Tomato

Botany of the Tomato

The common tomato of our gardens belongs to the natural order Solanaccae and

the genus Lycopcrsiciun. The name from lykos, a wolf, and persica, a peach, is

given it because of the supposed aphrodisiacal qualities, and the beauty of the

fruit. The genus comprises a few species of South American [...]