(1) We were planting fox cherry tomatoes and brandywine tomatoes.
 

(2) True, fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless).


(3)  As most home gardeners know, tomatoes are strictly warm weather plants, either sowed in pots in early spring, or planted directly into the soil after all danger of frost has past.


(4)  An heirloom is generally considered to be a variety that has been passed down, through several generations of a family because of its valued characteristics. Since 'heirloom' varieties have become popular in the past few years there have been liberties taken with the use of this term for commercial purposes.


(5)   When tomato seedlings are three or four inches tall and have their second pair of leaves, it's time to take them out of their crowded containers and put them into deeper, roomier ones. (If you started seedlings in individual containers at least three inches square, simply thin out the weaker plants by snipping them off at the soil line and leaving the strongest one.)

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