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Strange Foods by aaron rhodes
June 11th, 2006 9:41 PM
Tomatoes are one of my favorite foods. They are said to be one of the most healthy foods for you too. ( I heard this on Oprah, and Oprah does not lie!
Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species: S. lycopersicum
Tomatoes are said to be easy to grow and are grown in %80 of American gardens. I would like to grow some soon. They have the pigment lycopene in them which is said to be real good for you.
Tomatoes should be started indoors from seedlings 4-8 weeks before the last frost date. For outdoors, one must setup trellils or cages before hand to help hold up the tomato for a more productive plant because the cage supports the plant. Tomatoes are better suited for deep soil. Steady water is best for the plants during their growth in summer. It should be fun to plant these little fruits because they are said to be easy growing.(1)
Tomatoes are originally from the Americas and were brought to the rest of the world by the Spaniards in the 1500's. From there is moved to Asia and the rest of Europe. Strangely enough most people in europe though the Tomato was poisionous because of its being similar to nightshade congeners and were grown as decorative plants.
Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables? Arkansas would say it is both for it is their state fruit and their state veggie. The U.S. supreme court said it was a vegetable, not a fruit in the 1890's, at least for trade purposes. Seemingly, the reason why there is so much confusion about whether it is a fruit or a veggie is because a vegetable is purely a culinary construct and not botanical. So, botanically, it is a fruit, but by culinary standards it is a vegetable. (2)
Well, for me, it is my personal state vegetable and fruit.
(1) http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Wikimanual_of_Gardening_Volume_4/Tomato
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Solanum
Species: S. lycopersicum
Tomatoes are said to be easy to grow and are grown in %80 of American gardens. I would like to grow some soon. They have the pigment lycopene in them which is said to be real good for you.
Tomatoes should be started indoors from seedlings 4-8 weeks before the last frost date. For outdoors, one must setup trellils or cages before hand to help hold up the tomato for a more productive plant because the cage supports the plant. Tomatoes are better suited for deep soil. Steady water is best for the plants during their growth in summer. It should be fun to plant these little fruits because they are said to be easy growing.(1)
Tomatoes are originally from the Americas and were brought to the rest of the world by the Spaniards in the 1500's. From there is moved to Asia and the rest of Europe. Strangely enough most people in europe though the Tomato was poisionous because of its being similar to nightshade congeners and were grown as decorative plants.
Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables? Arkansas would say it is both for it is their state fruit and their state veggie. The U.S. supreme court said it was a vegetable, not a fruit in the 1890's, at least for trade purposes. Seemingly, the reason why there is so much confusion about whether it is a fruit or a veggie is because a vegetable is purely a culinary construct and not botanical. So, botanically, it is a fruit, but by culinary standards it is a vegetable. (2)
Well, for me, it is my personal state vegetable and fruit.
(1) http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Wikimanual_of_Gardening_Volume_4/Tomato
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
