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Best food for tomatoes?

I’ve got Tomato, Peppers (green, red, jalapeno, banana, cubanelle), cukes, zuchini, yellow squash, watermelon, and cantalope. What is the best commercially available organic food/fertilizer I can use on them?

Fish emulsion is organic and good for everything. If you accidentally overdo it, it will not burn any of your plants like other fertilizers do. You can look into liquid kelp, also.

Where can you find lycopene best, from raw tomatoes or from already processed tomato juices/sauces?

Unlike other fruits and vegetables, where nutritional content such as vitamin C is diminished upon cooking, processing of tomatoes increases the concentration of bioavailable lycopene. Lycopene in tomato paste is four times more bioavailable than in fresh tomatoes. This is because lycopene is so insoluble in water and is so tightly bound to vegetable fiber. Thus processed tomato products such as pasteurized tomato juice, soup, sauce, and ketchup contain the highest concentrations of bioavailable lycopene. Cooking and crushing tomatoes (as in the canning process) and serving in oil-rich dishes (such as spaghetti sauce or pizza) greatly increases assimilation from the digestive tract into the bloodstream. Lycopene is fat-soluble, so the oil is said to help absorption.

What soil is best for growing tomatoes, and peppers etc.?

I have had garden before…but the last two years I grew things in buckets, They didn’t produce like I hoped.
Any suggestions for how to get the proper blend for a good fertile soil?
I live where we have a growing season of about 5 months till it frosts in the fall.
Our springs are very chilly and it can frost even in May, and frost comes in early October sometimes.

Oh, a gardener, how nice? I check on the local Va home extension or talk to the local farmers. When I had rich soil from hauling in truck loads of horse manure my tomatoes really thrived as the rest of my garden did just as well but didn’t do as well with root crops except new potatoes, they did quite well and were fun to deal with.Now where I live and the dirt is sandy and there is much less rain I do better with drought resistant crops like jalapeno peppers,Make sure that the roots can breathe and get vermiculite for this. Get a good rich soil from your supply hardware place that is recommended for tomatoes and peppers. I think we have got to take what we can get and work with that and try to enhance what we lack by having things we love protected inside when we have a snap of cold weather. Root crops do very well where I am but any greens do well in a cold snap and I fall back on sprouting sprouts inside when I want lettuce and the lack of rain makes it difficult.

What would tomatoes grow best in?

Loam, clay, or sand?
Heh… Guess I should’ve mentioned this, I don’t plan on growing any, this is for a school project.

The worst conditions possible. Seriously. The best tasting tomatoes are those that are neglected — little nitrogen (nitrogen only makes the plant leafy — doesn’t give you tomatoes) and little water (more water = less sweetness.)

If you have all 3 available (sand, loam, clay) mix up a blend (30/30/30)

Too much clay and they’ll sit in a bog, too much sand and you’ll waste water.

Loam (and sand) bring air into the soil which plants love.

Put a handful of epsom salt in the hole before you add the tomato plant.

Oh, and strip all but the top 2 branches from the plant and place the whole thing in the hole (roots will grow from the stem creating a stronger plant.)

What are the best tomatoes to use for making salsa?

I’m going to start my garden soon and I want to grow a salsa garden. But I need to know what type of tomatoes to grow.

Romas & tomatillos.

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What are the best tasting Tomatoes that I can grow myself in the UK?

Home grown toms usualy taste better than shop bought. A reliable favorite for a number of years is called Gardeners Delight, a red cherry tom. with fruits around 25/30mm, a heavy cropper if looked after & a flavour that’s hard to beat! Does best in the greenhouse but will still produce outside in a nice warm spot. Raise your own from seed or bring on bought plants. Lots of info on the web on how to. Good Luck!