HORT 2043 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Beneficial Insects, Genetically Modified Tomato, Verticillium
6 Oct 2018
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The difference is in the taste: fresh (true) vine ripe, grow yourself or buy local, most are picked mature green, ethylene gas. Tomato history: originated in south america, taken to italy, thomas jefferson (horticulturist, originally called a love apple . Tomato nutrition value: loaded with nutrients and antioxidants, lycopene (red, believed to benefit the heart, vitamin c, vitamin a, variety dependent. Irrigate: crop rotation (very important, nightshade family (solanaceae potatoes, eggplant, peppers, rotate with non-nightshade crop every 3+ years, growth habit, determinate (bush, indeterminate (vining, staking/caging. Individual stake per plant: multiple per plant, novel, florida weave (most popular, wood, t-posts (used, staking florida weave, one stake per two plants plus one on each end, weaving vine around poles, topsy turvy. Tomato horn worm: pests, large worms, can devastate tomato plants, control, beneficial insects that can control them, bt naturally occurring, pyrethrum insecticide, physical removal.
