Tomato

Yes. However, be warned that hybrid tomato seeds will likely not produce tomatoes that are true to their type. By definition, a hybrid tomato plant… Read More »Will Hybrid Tomato Seeds Produce Fruit?

Early Girl Tomatoes are not heirloom tomatoes – they are modern hybrid tomatoes. The Early Girl tomato variety is a recent introduction that was bred… Read More »Is Early Girl An Heirloom Tomato?

A true bush-type plant, Bush Early Girl is perfect for large patio pots – amazingly compact yet productive. Growing only 18 in. (45 cm) tall,… Read More »Are Early Girl Tomatoes Bush Or Vine?

pomodoro. How to Tomato all’Italiana. You say tomato; we say pomodoro. What do Italians call tomatoes? pomodoroIf you thought that the Italian word for tomato… Read More »What Are Tomatoes Called In Italy?

16th century. The tomato arrived in France in the 16th century after it was discovered in South America, where the original wild version yielded tomatoes… Read More »When Did Tomatoes Arrive In France?

The first reference to throwing these rotten vegetables at bad stage acts came in an 1883 New York Times article after John Ritchie was hit… Read More »Who Threw The First Tomato?

European and Britain colonization spread the tomato throughout their empires; Northern and Southern Africa, Middle East, India, Philippines, Southern China and beyond. Each region began… Read More »How Did Tomatoes Get To Africa?

Tomatoes are native to South America, in fact, several species are still found growing wild in the Andes. Brought to Mexico, tomatoes were domesticated and… Read More »When Did Tomatoes Originate?

“Genomic data have revealed the convoluted path of tomato domestication, which started 80,000 years ago in Ecuador and Peru — to be finished only 7,000… Read More »Where Was Tomato First Domesticated?

Tomatoes were domesticated in America; however, the original site of domestication and the early events of domestication are largely obscure (Peralta and Spooner, 2007). Two… Read More »Who Domesticated Tomatoes?