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Prized tomatoes and sibling wars
Julie Geiss takes us back to the end of summer sometime in the 1980s, during a time of sibling rivalries and prized Egyptian heirloom tomatoes.
Tips for growing the best tomatoes
Eric Keller offers some tips for growing better tomatoes and increasing production in a vegetable garden.
The tomato’s unique rise to popularity
Once referred to as a Wolf’s Peach, tomatoes were not always as popular as they are now, generally, or in Julie Geiss’ culinary wheelhouse.
Spring into rotational grazing
Pasture programs that are well managed can be the most economical way to ensure forages for your herd.
Tomato cultivars for Ohio gardens
If you’re a seasoned grower, you know what to grow, but if you’re new to the gardening scene, choosing tomato varieties can leave you scratching your head.
What can tomatoes teach us about biodiversity? Quite a bit
Scientists are using the genomes of wild tomatoes to study the processes that drive Earth’s biodiversity. Their goal is to learn how species cope with differences in climate and natural enemies, and what might happen in this time of environmental change.
Self sufficiency feeds the soul
Modern agriculture currently feeds the world, but it doesn’t feed Eric Keller’s soul, like bottle feeding a calf or harvesting tomatoes with his kids.
Tomato genome gets fully sequenced
For the first time, the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been decoded, an important step toward improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste and color of the tomato and other crops.
High tunnels are terrific for tasty tomatoes
Fred Forsburg’s tomatoes are perfect — tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The Livonia farmer’s secret? Growing tomatoes in high tunnels.
Ugly, banned tomato gets its own blog
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has intervened in the national debate over the UglyRipe tomato, freeing the heirloom beefsteak variety tomato from the shape restrictions imposed by the Florida Tomato Committee.
