1. Tomato-Patch Did You Know? Introduced to Europe in the sixteenth century, tomatoes were called love apples. While the Spanish and Italians ate them, Northern Europeans believed they were poisonous. An 1893 Supreme Court decision declared that, though botanically a fruit, the tomato is a vegetable.

2. ROMA VF Lycopersicon esculentum Transplanting and Harvesting Best grown in cages. Determinate. 75 days to harvest from planting-out date. Determinate: growth of a plant stem that is terminated early by the formation of a bud. Naturally self limited growth, resulting in a plant of a definite maximum size.

3. SUN GOLD HYBRID Lycopersicon esculentum Var. cerasiforme Transplanting and Harvesting Trellis or sprawling. Indeterminate. 65 days to harvest from planting-out date. Indeterminate: inexact in its limits or nature, no specific end size.

4. EARLY GIRL HYBRID Lycopersicon esculentum Transplanting and Harvesting Trellis or sprawling. Indeterminate. 54 days to harvest from planting-out date.

5. SUPERTASTY HYBRID Lycopersicon esculentum Transplanting and Harvesting Minimal support necessary. Semideterminate. 70 days to harvest from planting-out date.

6. BRANDYWINE Lycopersicon esculentum Transplanting and Harvesting Either stake, cage, or trellis. Indeterminate. 88 days to harvest from planting-out date.

7. YELLOW PEAR Lycopersicon esculentum Transplanting and Harvesting Plants do best on a trellis. Indeterminate. 75 days to harvest from planting-out date.

8. Starting Plants: Step 1 Place one peat pellet in each pot. Pour a total of ½ cup of warm water over the pellets and allow them to expand (about five minutes). Fluff and mix the peat with a fork, then place the pots in the greenhouse.

9. Starting Plants: Step 2 Gently press two or three tomato seeds into the top of each pellet. Plant each pot with a different variety. Mist lightly, close green-house, and place near a sunny window.

10. Starting Plants: Step 3 Check daily to ensure that the soil stays moist and to allow air to circulate. Once seeds germinate, leave top of greenhouse open.

11. Starting Plants: Step 4 When seedlings have two or three sets of leaves, transplant into 3 peat pots, and set in a sunny spot.

12. Starting Plants: Step 5 Plants may be transplanted to your garden on week after the last frost. (no frost in Hawaii so this does not apply) Before transplanting, be sure to harden off seedlings by keeping them outdoors for increasingly longer periods of time. Start with an hour or two, and gradually move up to a full day. Avoid direct sunlight at first.

15. Dont Forget to add Herbs to your Tomato Meal