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The first day of spring is here and that means it's time to get the plants ready for your garden. Check out these handy guides on when to start your plants.
1. Basil. An Iowa State University study found that tomato insect damage was lessened when planted alongside basil. Plus, it’s the perfect accompaniment to a fresh, juicy tomato! Think of it ...
Solanum pimpinellifolium, commonly known as the currant tomato [3] or pimp, [4] is a wild species of tomato [5] native to Ecuador and Peru but naturalized elsewhere, such as the Galápagos Islands. Its small fruits are edible, and it is commonly grown in gardens as an heirloom tomato, [ 6 ] although it is considered to be wild [ 7 ] rather than ...
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The Hillbilly Tomato, scientific name Solanum lycopersicum, is an heirloom cultivar originating from West Virginia in the 1800s. There is also a potato-leaf variant named Hillbilly Potato Leaf. [1] The fruit is considered a beefsteak tomato weighing 1-2 pounds. It is round, heavily ribbed and its skin and flesh is orange-yellow with red streaks.
These "wild tomatoes" are poisonous. Colloquially, wild tomato is used for several unrelated Solanum species with tomato-like fruit or leaves. The term is inaccurate and may be dangerous, as some of these species may be fatally poisonous: Physalis angulata (Cut-leaved groundcherry) Solanum carolinense (Carolina horsenettle) Solanum ...
Solanum arcanum is a perennial [3] plant, woody at the base, being up to 1 m (3.3 ft) or more wide and up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall. Its stem is between 7 and 12 mm (0.3 and 0.5 in) in diameter at its base, often hollow, green, glabrous to variously pubescent with a mixture of simple uniseriate trichomes.
Matt's Wild Cherry is a cultivar of tomato ostensibly based on the original wild tomato plants, acquired by a friend of Doctor Matt Liebman in Hidalgo, Mexico. [1] Liebman raised this cultivar in Maine, eventually releasing it under his own name.