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Show 14 FARM, RANCH & GARDEN Edition April, 1977 Determinate Love fresh tomatoes? Then grow your own Tomatoes are easy to grow and taste great when they are harvested from your backyard! A dozen healthy tomato plants will yield tomatoes throughout the summer for salads, main dishes and even canning. Juicy red tomatoes are available in many different varieties developed by hybridizers to adapt to various soil and weather conditions. Many varieties of tomatoes are resistant to diseases and nematode worms. Tomatoes can be planted from seeds or from seedlings available at local nurseries in late spring. Seeds should be planted in flats and allowed to sprout indoors in a warm place that receives good light. When the seedlings are six to twelve inches high, they can be planted outdoors if all danger of frost is past. Seedlings should be planted 0 inches approximately apart. Protect planted seedlings from cutworms by covering the base of the plant with a 18-2- stiff collar made from cardboard or juice cans with the tops and bottoms removed. The collar should extend one inch into the soil. Sucker leaves which appear at the joint of a describes tomato plant regular leaf and the plant stem should be removed. If allowed to grow, the sucker leaves will produce a bushy plant with undersized fruits, as most of the plants energy will be diverted to leaf growth. Tomato plants can be tied to stakes or grown along a trellis. The plants can also grow along the ground in the style of melons or pumpkins. However, even the heartiest of tomato varieties is less resistant to diseases and worms than pumpkins or melons, so this is not a recommended procedure. Tomatoes require daily watering and an occasional Determinate is a but it is commonly used to describe tomato plants that grow to nd stop. medium size, Then they set a heavy crop of medium-sizefruit, and after a month or two begin to decline. Space plants 2Va ft. apart in the garden. d The extra early garden varieties are all deter- minate in plant habit. with a bushel basket.) They dont require staking and are great for growing in containers of 2 to sizes. Plant a few determinate tomatoes with your main crop hybrids; they will give you ripe tomatoes to weeks 4 HOME-GROWTOMATOES are easy to achieve, dont require a lot of space and are well worth the effort, as many a home gardener will attest. the variety planted, the temperature and soil conditions. They are ready for harvesting when they are a bright red with no green areas remaining on the fruit. When you have harvested all of your tomatoes, remove the plants and plant new seedlings again next spring. before the types. large-vine- d dose of fertilizer high in potassium and phosphorus, but low in nitrogen. Several fine plant foods created for tomatoes are available at nurseries. The fruits will ripen slowly or fast, depending on So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the May flowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life. Goethe Sew it yourself with AUTHENTIC WESTERN X tS Gasoline i Diesel Fuel Lubricants Farm & Industrial Tires Patterns IN: Knits Denims Corduroy and Sewing Classes: Morning, afternoon & evening ...Call 687-258- 3 anytime Mounting Balancing I racy's Full Service (complete) oYSGh SERVICE CASTLE DALE 748-222- 0, (You can cover a mature plant 2 Central Emery County's Largest Stocked UJholesale Dealer For word strange to register! 128 North Main Street Huntington, Utah 84528 Telephone 687-258- 3 |