The world’s tallest tomato plant grew to be 65 feet tall (19.8 meters). The plant gave 32,194 tomatoes between the period May 2005 and April 2006. That’s bigger than an Olympic-size swimming pool. How big can a tomato plant can grow? The world record of being the largest tomato plant goes to a single plant spread over an area of 56.73 square meters. In addition to red tomatoes there are also white, black, purple, pink and yellow ripe tomatoes. There are 10,000+ varieties of tomatoes in the world!
Wolf Peach is the literal translation of the scientific name of tomatoes – Lycopersicon lycopersicumĩ4.5% of the weight of a typical tomato is nothing but water! Second spot goes to bananas and third to apples, followed by oranges and watermelons, respectively, in 4th and 5th spot. With an annual production of 60 million tons, they remain the world’s most demanded and most popular fruit. Tomatoes are fruits! Botanically, they are not vegetables. Just make sure to check them daily for ripeness. If you buy unripened tomatoes, you can speed up the ripening process by wrapping them in a sheet of newspaper and keeping them on the kitchen counter for a few days. Therefore, locally grown tomatoes may taste better because they’re allowed to ripen naturally. This process inhibits the development of natural flavor and may result in tasteless tomatoes To make them red before selling, food companies spray them with artificial ethylene gas. When tomatoes start to ripen, they produce a gaseous hormone called ethyleneĬommercially grown tomatoes are harvested and transported while still green and immature. This is actually the second load we’ve received from them, and there’s a promise of a third to come soon! Here is a gift from one of our friends that went into making the recipes in this post.
(It’s a good thing we have good friends who are good gardeners, because I don’t seem to have much luck growing tomatoes. It’s almost like Christmas when your friend has a bumper crop of tomatoes, can’t possibly use them all, and presents you with a load of them. This is also the time when you find out who your true friends are. My mother used to say that she would bring the salt shaker out to the garden, because she couldn’t wait to bite into them! Yes!! It’s Here! It’s Homegrown Tomato Season!Īll year long, as we suffer through dull, tasteless Winter tomatoes – we can’t wait for late summer when the homegrown tomatoes in our area ripen up for our enjoyment.
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