Fruits

Cordon (Vine) Tomato. Sweet and delicious cherry tomatoes are born on open trusses. Vigorous and very prolific. Are cherry tomatoes a bush variety? It’s a… Read More »Are Cherry Tomatoes Cordon Or Bush?

Cherry tomatoes can be determinate or indeterminate plants. This means they can grow to be bush tomatoes or long vines. Within both types, there are… Read More »Are Cherry Tomatoes Bush?

To grow the strongest tomato plant possible, prune side stems below the first fruit cluster. As a tomato plant matures, its lower leaves begin to… Read More »What Leaves To Cut On Tomato Plant?

The cherry tomato is not an Israeli invention, and this isn’t the first time the fact has been stated loud and clear. But because the… Read More »Did Cherry Tomatoes Come From Israel?

Israeli newspapers credit two professors, Nachum Kedar and Haim Rabinowitch, both at the Faculty of Agriculture at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with developing the cherry… Read More »Who Invented The Cherry Tomato?

Answer: That depends on the fruit’s maturity. For example, fruit from store-bought tomatoes will normally be fertile and easy to germinate, as tomatoes are generally… Read More »Can I Plant Seeds From Store Bought Fruit?

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes Tomato hay stacks. When we are convinced a light frost is imminent, we go… Read More »What Can I Do With Too Many Green Cherry Tomatoes?

With Cordon tomatoes, the upright varieties as the plant grows, it is essential to remove all new side shoots, which appear at the junction between… Read More »Should All Tomato Plants Have Side Shoots Removed?

It is not indigenous to Italy, or Europe for that matter. The tomato was first “discovered” by the Spanish Conquistadors while exploring and then conquering… Read More »Do Tomatoes Naturally Grow In Italy?

You can research this topic all day long and find that Italian-Americans connote “gravy” to mean a sauce with meat in it. But Italian chefs… Read More »Do Real Italians Call It Gravy Or Sauce?