Why Grow Your Own Tomatoes Do you like to eat salads in summer What are your favorite ingredients in a salad Could it be peppers lettuce or perhaps tomatoes (cid:83) Most tomatoes are juicy and delicious in a sandwich or salad Size and Color Did you know that there are thousands of varieties of tomato They vary in size from enormous beef tomatoes to tiny cherry tomatoes and in color from yellow to red Flavors vary too The small cherry tomatoes can be sweet tasting some of the bigger varieties have a fruity taste (cid:83) Not all tomatoes are red you can get yellow orange white and even brownish-colored ones 6
Grow Your Own Have you ever thought about growing tomatoes It really is a great journey to go on one of flavor color shape and size and smell too Truss (cid:83) When you water a tomato plant it gives off an amazing smell (cid:87) (cid:84) These are the main parts of a tomato plant Stem Leaf Flower Fruit Root Root hair Fruit or Vegetable A tomato is actually a fruit not a vegetable because it has seeds see page 10 However we think of it as a vegetable and eat it in salads Seed 7
