When you receive the Totally Tomatoes seed catalog, you can see endless pages of tomatoes. Those red tomatoes certainly a pleasure to watch. However, you need to be careful in choosing the perfect tomato variety for you as not all tomatoes can fit on your garden. Some tomatoes are too big and therefore will take so much space, meanwhile your gardens may not have sufficient space. Other tomato will not going to be suitable for the climate in which you reside.
In addition, you need to understand that tomatoes need sunlight and the amount of sunlight from one garden to another differ and therefore, you will need to be able to choose the one that can suit your garden's sunlight. Different variety of tomato will have different resistant toward certain diseases and this is an important factor, if not one of the most important one for any gardener to understand.
Tomato is among the easiest vegetable to maintain, however some tomatoes are more productive than others. Take the two smallest hybrids as an example, the grape and cherry tomatoes. These two tomatoes have almost similar sizes, however in term of production cost, the grape tomatoes needs higher outcome. They can grow so tall that farmers and gardeners must be able to build the perfect cage for them. In addition, they are not yielding as much harvest as their sister, the cherry tomatoes. So not only do farmers need higher cost for the cages, but they also need to provide more space as well as spend more time in the maintenance but receiving smaller amount of harvests.
These kind of understandings should be obtained during the choosing of the tomato plants. Beginner farmers may need to plant more than one type of tomato in order to find the best one for them. Unlike, the more experienced ones, they do not have any previous experiences or if they do, they may not have sufficient experiences in the past.
No matter which of the tomato variety a farmer choose, tomatoes are sure to be one of the healthiest vegetable available. They have so many vitamins and minerals in their tiny bodies. However, the amount of vitamins and mineral contents would be different from one tomato to another. The newest trend is that tomatoes are often used to help with the weight lost program. They are perfect as they keep the body moisturize and healthy, but at the same time helping to lose unwanted weight.
