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Best Apartment Growing Tomatoes
By Randi Lipscomb ▪ Survivalist Seeds
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Several websites promote individuals making their own compost, building your own planters and start a self-sufficient garden that best suit your lifestyle and space availability. Now that 36.4% (2004, encyclopedia.com) of the US population lives in apartments we are finding ourselves for a loss of space and a new DIY attitude. But how do we grow our own food in limited space?
Since 2005 Topsy Turvy has become our new "lazy" garden. A simple bag that promotes the healthy growth of produce, the buyer must only supply the plant, soil and daily water. It is an easy concept that has spurred a simple idea of "Apartment Gardens". Although it may be easy enough to grab an affordable bag of planting soil at your local Wal-Mart, which plant has produced the best results? Even the least experienced gardener can grow plentiful tomatoes with the help of Topsy Turvy, but which will benefit your health the most?
With over 7,000 varieties of tomatoes, it can be overwhelming choosing the right tomato considering, size, produce/yeilding number, taste and nutrition. However, in 5 years several studies were done to research which is the most popular in each category.
10. Mortgage Lifter tomato - Developed in the early 1930's in West Virgina to help pay his home mortgage. It is one of the most diesease resistant tomatoes available on the organic non-GMO market.
9. Italian Heirloom Tomato - Everything you would expect from a tomato revered by the Italians for it's BIG TASTE. This was one of the favorites of the 2008 Carmel TomatoFest tomato tasting. A good choice for cooking, eating fresh or canning.
8 . Brandywine Pink Tomato - A potato leaf vines produce large tomatoes weighing up to 2 lbs. EXCELLENT flavor and creamy texture.
7. Homer Fike's Yellow Oxheart - The abundant yellow-gold, heart-shaped, fruit up to 3 lb. has been one of the greatest tomatoes full of delicious fruit-sweet flavors. This tomato offers a meaty flesh and few seeds.
6. Delicious Tomato - Is a beautiful smooth red fruit that turns out, on average, a 1 lb tomato. These tomatoes are fairly crack resistance and a wonderful show piece on your Apartment or home balcony.
5. Giant Belgium Tomato - Developed in Ohio in this variety is known mostly for it's size and delicious flavor. Dark pink fruit that averages 2-lbs. (but can get to 5 lbs.) is meaty with few seeds. Great for cooking and canning.
4. Marglobe Supreme Tomato - This globe shaped tomato is crack resistant and very tolerant to wilt. in most cases the vine will sprout 1 lb tomatoes.
3. Beefsteak Tomato - Extra large , meaty and ribbed deep-scarlet fruit. Beefsteak has proven to be one of the most popular tomatoes throughout generations.
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2. Chocolate Stripes - One of the Top 3 tomatoes of the 2007 TomatoFest. Organic tomato seeds produce very large, indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants that yield a plentiful crop. Fruits have delicious, complex, rich, sweet, earthy tomato flavors. Produces well into the autumn. A great sandwich tomato and salad tomato. 1. Rutgers Tomato - Our number one choice for taste, yielding, cost and nutrition. This fruit is a popular old favorite that is sure to prove a family classic.
*All heirloom tomatoes can be found and purchased at http://bigjohnsheirloomtomatoes.com/ and http://www.tomatofest.com/heirloom-tomatoes-top-10.html
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