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Tomatoes

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Tomato characteristics

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Midget, patio, or dwarf varieties are very compact vines best grown in hanging baskets or other containers. The tomatoes produced may be, but are not necessarily, the cherry type (1" diameter or less). Some produce larger fruit. These plants are usually short-lived, producing their crop quickly and for a short period.

 

Compact or determinate tomato plants refers to the habit of growing to a certain size, setting fruit, and then declining. Most of the early ripening tomato varieties are determinate and will not produce tomatoes throughout a Virginia summer.

 

Indeterminate tomato plants are the opposite of the determinate types. The vines continue to grow until frost or disease kills them. These are the standard, all-summer.

�tomatoes that most people like to grow. They require support of some kind for the best results, since otherwise the fruit would be in contact with the soil, thus susceptible to rot.

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Types of tomatoes word scramble

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Fun Tomato Facts 

  1. Tomatoes come in a variety of colors: red, yellow, pink, purple, black and white!
  2. Tomato plants have been grown in space.
  3. The largest tomato plant covers an area larger than an Olympic swimming pool. It is growing at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida, USA.!
  4. The largest tomato grown to date 11.65 pounds. (As of Oct 8, 2022 at the Stillwater Harvest Fest in Stillwater, MN)
  5. Tomatoes are berries.
  6. Tomatoes originally came from Peru.
  7. The USA is the 2nd largest producer of tomatoes (China is 1st)
  8. Want to get messy and waste a bunch of tomatoes? Attend the annual festival in Spain, La Tomatina. Over 150,000 tomatoes are thrown at others participating in the festival.
  9. Tomato Juice is the state drink of Ohio.
  10. There are around 10,000 varieties of tomatoes worldwide!

Help Tommy the hornworm eat his way through the tomato!

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Maze

Write the left-over letters in order on the lines below:

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_ Amish Paste _ Magnus

_ Beefsteak _ Nepal

_ Brandywine _ Ox Heart

_ Celebrity _ Pear

_ Cherokee Purple _ Plum

_ Cherry _ Red

_ Determinate _ Roma

_ Early Girl _ Rutgers

_ Grape _ San Marzano

_ Green _ Sun Gold

_ Heirloom _ Yellow

_ Hybrid _ Vine

_ Indeterminate _ Zebra

TOMATO WORD SEARCH

Find the words below in the puzzle on the next page

and draw a line through them. The remaining

letters in the puzzle spell out special information

about tomatoes!