Thinking of planting your first tomato patch but unsure what to buy
in the way of plants? Hundreds of tomato varieties are on the
market, just waiting for you, in a surprising range of colors but
all of them fall into just three main categories:
(1) Choose from:
- Slicers, which are the big round (or sort of round)
tomatoes great for cutting into wedges for green salads or sliced
for sandwiches - Paste tomatoes, which are oblong and used to make
sauces - And plum-, cherry- & pear-shaped tomatoes, perfect
for snacking
(2) Plant in full sun. If you don’t have space for a garden,
just remove a little patch of sod or grass, and plant the tomato
there.
(3) Keep your tomato plants watered well, and feed with a
slow-release organic fertilizer and/or mulch with nitrogen-rich
grass clippings.
