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The Early Girl tomato is a medium-sized globe-type F1 hybrid popular with home gardeners because of its early ripening fruit. Early Girl is a cultivar of tomato with indeterminate growth, which means it produces flowers and fruit until it is killed by frost or another external factor (contrast with a determinate cultivar, which would grow to a limited, predefined shape and be most productive ...
Tomato plants are vines, becoming decumbent, and can grow up to 3 m (9.8 ft); bush varieties are generally no more than 100 cm (3 ft 3 in) tall. They are tender perennials, often grown as annuals. [40] [41] Tomato plants are dicots. They grow as a series of branching stems, with a terminal bud at the tip that does the actual growing.
Tigerella is a bi-colored tomato cultivar, relatively small, 2 to 4 ounces (60-120 g), and early (59 days). [1] Upon maturity the fruit is red with yellow stripes, essentially the same as Green Zebra , except that the fruit is red instead of green, and has a sweeter flavor.
The tomato field: a sight to behold. On farmer Frank Muller’s tomato field on the outskirts of Esparto, the landscape’s vast openness dims any sound of trucks or cars passing in the distance ...
The plants require proper spacing (2 feet) between each plant to ensure that diseases do not spread. [5] Staking is a necessary method that is required by the tomato plants since it can grow up to 10 feet tall and the fruits can become quite heavy and large in size. [11]
Developed in California by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms Sweet, salty, spicy based on color. [9] [10] Big Beef: Red 70–80 Hybrid Medium Beefsteak Indeterminate Regular leaf F V N T 1994 AAS winner [11] Big Rainbow: Yellow/ Red 80–85 Heirloom Large Beefsteak Indeterminate Regular Leaf Large fruited yellow tomatoes with red swirls, and mild ...
California is in one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hot spots and is home to more than 6,000 types of native plants, including hundreds of wildflower species. Only a few other places on Earth ...
Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4] This botanical diversity stems not only from the size of the state, but also its diverse topographies , climates, and soils (e.g. serpentine outcrops ).