Sentences with phrase «tomato plant varieties»

I remember going to the local plant nursery in late spring and spending literally hours agonizing over which tomato plant varieties I should buy for the newly constructed raised bed in our backyard.

Not exact matches

We also grow tomatoes, but have found that the cherry and grape varieties work best for us, as for some reason we do not have the best luck with the large tomato plants.

Genetically Modified food plants include varieties of com, soybeans, sugar cane, tomatoes, sweet peppers, strawberries, bananas and others.

I planted 38 different heirloom tomato varieties this year!

PLUS Plants: Cilantro, Dill, Basil, Parsley, Cucumbers, Yellow Summer Squash, Zucchini, Tomatoes, Eggplant (variety details on ordering page).

If commercial varieties of tomato plants are exposed to 24 - hour - a-day light, as they sometimes are in a greenhouse, their leaves become mottled with yellow spots, as in the photo above, and the plants can die.

Tomatoes that will be canned for sauces and juice are harvested from plants that stop growing earlier than classic tomato varieties, and are therefore more like bushes.

«This is because,» Lippman explains, «bushy tomato varieties are highly sensitive to the amount, or dosage, of the florigen hormone, which alters plant architecture — that is, how many flowers can form before growth ends.

The results, published in the academic journal Nature Biotechnology, could pave the way for new varieties of better tasting tomatoes with improved postharvest life through conventional plant breeding.

Dr Charles Baxter from Syngenta said: «This discovery has relevance for the development of new tomato varieties via conventional plant breeding and is a significant step forward in understanding processes involved in fruit development, allowing more refined control of this process in plant breeding.»

Now that the genome sequence of one variety of tomato is known, it will also be easier and much less expensive for seed companies and plant breeders to sequence other varieties for research and development, he added.

Carotenoids, like beta - carotene, are the colorful plant pigments normally found in a variety of fruits and vegetables (carrots, tomatoes, broccoli, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes, etc.).

The struggle remains though even with Plant based whole food, a number of things that will result in a sugar spike after approximately an hour, (eg rice of any color / variety, kidney beans, chick peas, tomatoes).

I just planted several different varieties of tomatoes, oh the ketchup I'll be able to make in August.

If you don't know which tomato variety will work well in your climate and garden soil, and you can't easily predict whether this will be a hot or cold summer, why not plant several different varieties in hopes of a good harvest from at least a few plants?

Though the ingredients of meat - free kibble varies between brands, they usually include corn, soybeans, barley, carrots, wheat, oats, brown rice, tomatoes, flaxseed and a variety of plant - based oils just to name a few.

• Bulbplants (including most varieties of lilies, daffodils, etc.) • Tomato plants (the leaves and stems) • Azaleas • Castor Beans • Fox glove • Oleander • Mushrooms and fungi • Rhubarb plants • Philodendron

To discover the impact of LEDs on the vitamin content of homegrown tomatoes, scientists chose several different plant varieties and suspended LED modules around the tomato clusters.

Lined with dirt, the bed of the truck literally sprouts all kinds of greens, from lettuce to tomato plants to a variety of herbs.

IBFs were planted with an assortment of perennials and annuals that included: eggplant (Solanum melongena), tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum), peppers (Capsicum annuum), rosemary (Rosemarinus officinalis), Sedum species, oregano (Origanum vulgare), celosia (Celosia cristata), zinnia (Zinnia x hybrida), Colocasia esculenta, Typha latifolia, geraniums (Pelargonium varieties), Papyrus spp., basil (Ocimum basilicum), Hemerocallis spp., and Salvia spp..

While we are not tomato experts, we are surely tomato aficionados and have been growing them organically for over 30 years — usually 100 or more plants of numerous varieties each year.