Different Types Of Tomatoes we have at Food Home Grown’s nursery:

Different Types Of Tomatoes we have at Food Home Grown’s nursery:

(Hybrids)

Super Sweet Cherry Tomato- Pearly round or plum-shade, sweet or tangy, red or gold. Early season fruit weights about one ounce, bears fruit indeterminate. Grows in 60 days get 5 to 6 feet high. Cherry tomatoes were developed in 1973 by two scientist from Israel trying to slow down rapid ripening of regular tomatoes in hot climates.

Red Lightening Tomatoes-Red with yellow stripes and full of flavor. Get to be 1-2 ounces. Plant grows to about 5 feet tall. Red Lightening tomatoes are indeterminate. Matures in 85 days

Super Beefsteak-
Delicious, flavorful, meaty fruits have smooth shoulders, not as rough and ridgy as Beefsteak and the blossom end scars are smaller. Prolific,vigorous plants produce luscious red fruits averaging 17 ounces. Matures in 80 days. Better than Beefsteak! .

(Heirloom)

Baxter’s Bush Cherry Organic-“Early ripening organic cherry tomato.
A very early, red cherry tomato with remarkable weather tolerance and keeping quality. Vigorous and productive, yielding firm, crack resistant fruits around a week earlier than other open-pollinated cherries. Small tasty fruits are great used fresh in salads. Fruit set tolerant of adverse weather conditions. Bushy, determinate habit needs no staking or cages. Certified Organic.” from Burpee’s site

Italian Roma-“ Italian Roma is an heirloom paste and canning tomato from Italy. Growing up to 200 fruit per plant, you will have plenty of fruit to cook for sauces and to eat fresh in salads and sandwiches. The oblong-shaped Roma tomatoes are very firm and meaty without a lot of water or seeds, which makes them so good for cooking. If you want paste tomatoes, you may have trouble deciding between the Roma and the San Marzano. If you have room, grow them both! The Roma is a more compact bush-type that fruits all at once (good for making that big pot of sauce), and the San Marzano is a climbing pole-type that must by caged or staked - it is indeterminate and will give you a more drawn-out, longer harvest period.” from Botanical Interests

Burpee’s Long keeper-
Baker creek seeds says the fellowing about Burpee’s long keeper “Here is the tomato for gardeners wanting tomatoes for an extra couple of months! Pick fruit a little before they are ripe and keep them cool and dark. Ripe fruit turn reddish-orange. Developed by Burpee's in 1979.


Marglobe-
Heavy, uniform vine growth. High yield of large uniform, globe-shaped fruit. Marglobe Tomatoes are Determinate so be ready to can. Matures in 73 days

Rutgers-also known as the “Jersey” tomato, this variety was introduced in 1934. Good for slicing and cooking. Fusarium resistant. Matures in 74 days. Rutgers are indeterminate tomatoes so you could have fruit all summer long.
Baker creek says of this tomato “Good for canning; also good fresh; large red 8-oz. globes. Good yields and flavor on large vines. A fine New Jersey heirloom.”

Yellow pear-Clusters of pear-shaped, yellow fruit with mild, delicious flavor are attractive and tasty whole for salads and appetizers. Fine preserved or picked. Indeterminate so you’ll have a long time to enjoy this treat.
More coming soon…if you have a special Tomato plant you would like preorder and we’ll start any breed.　

How to grow Tomatoes!

HOW TO GROW TOMATOES

Buy your tomato plants from Food Home Growns Urban Nursery for only a $1.
Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable? Well it depends on who you ask, but it is really a fruit. It is classified as a vegetable for culinary purposes. Tomatoes are rich in lycopene which may have health benefits. Back during Colonial times, people would not put a tomato near their mouth let alone try to eat one. They believed that the tomato was poison, and that if you ate one it would turn you blood to acid. So tomatoes were grown originally for decoration purposes only. Tomatoes are from the Nightshade family. Tomatoes range in size from 1 cm to 10 cm in diameter. There is around 7,500 different verities of tomatoes differing in shape and colors. Tomatoes are resistance to diseases, but the can get tobacco mosaic virus, and for that purpose smoking around your plant is discouraged.

Growing Your Tomatoes:Step 1- Plant your seed into a pot of soil. Once your seedlings get their first leaves then transplant them in a 4 inch pot so they have room to branch out. If they can’t branch out it will affect its growth.
Step 2- Make sure your plants get plenty of direct sunlight or 14-16 hours under a grow light. Plant them in the most sunny spot in your garden.
Step 3- Put a fan on your tomatoes plant for 5-10 minutes twice a day to encourage strong stalk.
(Skip steps 1-3 and just buy your plant for $1.00 from us!)
Step 4- Preheat your soil a couple of week before planting it in the ground. You can do this by putting black plastic on the ground. This will encourage earlier tomatoes.
Step 5- Dig the hole deep enough to put the plant into its first set of top leaves.
Step 6- Cover the ground around plant to protect the soil and help keep in water.
Step 7- Take off any dead leaves, because they will make the plant sick.
Step 8- Prune off any spikes to keep the plant health.
Step 9- Water the plant a lot while the plant is growing. Once tomatoes start blooming cut back on the water to increase the natural sugar.
Step 10- Pick your fruit and enjoy your hard work.

　

　

When you are picking which Tomatoes to grow out of the thousands of types,

Be sure to keep in mind that indeterminate means this plant will produce fruit all summer and Determinate means your fruit will come all at once.(Great for canning)

I’ll be posting a list of the Tomato plants we currently have at Food Home Growns Nursery along with pics of each type of fruit later tonight.