Department of Agriculture says there are 25,000 different types of tomatoes.
• Tomatoes can contract diseases such as Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) and can make you very sick.
• The tomato leaf is poisonous.
GROWING CONDITIONS
• Most tomatoes are warm season fruits and sometimes grown in greenhouses.
• Tomatoes prefer a mild climate. Temperatures over 90 degrees during the summer days and 76 degrees during the nights may cause blossom drop.
• Tomatoes prefer a deep, fertile soil that is well-draining and has a lot of organic material and grow well in a soil with a pH around 6.5.
CHARACTERISTICS
Tomatoes are a plant that grows well in a sunny, moderate climate. The fruit contains vitamins C and A. Tomatoes are easy to grow in a greenhouse. Tomatoes are a green shoot with green leaves and are usually seen as red, but they can also be green, yellow, orange, pink and white. Tomato plants are made up of only five percent solids. These solids are cell walls, sugars, and acids. The rest of the tomato is made of water. The fruit of the tomato is fleshy, juicy, and ranges from sweet to mildly acidic. The two types of fruit produced by a tomato plant are the small cherry tomatoes that have two seed chambers inside and the bigger tomatoes have lots of