Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Ellen Huber Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Alamy amana images inc Daniel Dempster Photography Pegaz Star Pix Corbis Jerome Wexler Visuals Unlimited Dreamstime Amineimo Dusan Kostic Lianem Sgoodwin4813 Wellford Tiller Getty Images Taylor S Kennedy iStockphoto Liudmila Chernova Kitty Ellis emmgunn Tobias Helbig Jim Jurica Viktor Kitaykin Le Do MorePixels Don Nichols rphotos Science Photo Library ZEISS Shutterstock Smit Veer Calek dobdesign jabiru Mirage3 Alexey Stiop tuja66 Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Riggs Kate Tomato Kate Riggs p cm Grow with me Includes bibliographical references and index Summary An exploration of the life cycle and life span of tomatoes using up-close photographs and step-by step text to follow a tomato’s growth process from seed to seedling to mature plant ISBN 978-1-60818-219-0 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-161-0 eBook 1 Tomatoes Life cycles Juvenile literature 2 Tomatoes Seeds Juvenile literature I Title SB349 R54 2012 641 3’5642 dc23 2011040502 First Edition 987654321
TA B L E O F CO N T E N TS Tomatoes 4 Seeds and Fruit 7 Planting a Seed 8 A Seedling Grows 11 Sprouting Leaves 13 Transplanted in Soil 14 Flowering Plant 17 Pollinated Fruit 18 Picking Time 21 Eating Tomatoes 22 Tomato History 25 Places to Plant 26 Death of a Tomato Plant 28 Life Cycle 30 Glossary 31 Web Sites 32 Read More 32 Index 32
TOMATOES Tomatoes are annual plants Annuals are plants that live for a year or less They grow from seeds Tomatoes grow best in fertile soil that gets plenty of water They need a lot of sunlight too Tomatoes are native to South America There they are perennial plants This means that they can live and grow year round Tomato plants have vines that can be 3 to 10 feet 0 9 3 m long 4
Tomatoes are fruits but sometimes people think of them as vegetables 5
