Apr
12

Tomatoes: Question & Answer

By Polly

I’m going to ask you to guess what the answer is to this question: “What makes tomatoes have thick skin? What do you think it is?

What do you think that most gardeners don’t think about until their tomatoes have thick skins that detract from the succulent texture of the tomato.

Of course… it’s “What do I Do to make the skins on the tomato a little less tough?

Gardeners want to know the “magic cures” that will allow them to avoid tough tomato skins.

Well, I’ve always got some BAD NEWS for gardeners who want the immediate cure for their thick skin tomatoes.

The bad news is that there are typically three things that can cause tomatoes with tough skins. And,These things are:

*   Variety

*   Watering

*   Temperature

And I want YOU to understand these three things that can cause thick skin in a tomato plant.

*   The most common reason for thick tomato skins is simply variety. Some varieties of tomatoes just have thicker skins, and mostly for good reason.

Roma tomatoes, plum tomatoes and crack resistant tomato varieties will naturally have thick tomato skins. Roma and plum tomatoes have thick skin partially because they have been bred that way.

Roma tomatoes and plum tomatoes are often used for canning and drying. Thick or tough tomato skins help with these preserving processes. Thick tomato skins are easier to remove when canning and thick, tough tomato skins also hold together better when dried.

*   When tomato plants have too little water, they can develop tomato fruit with thick skins. This is a survival reaction on the tomato plant’s part.

When the tomato plant has continually too little water, it will take steps to conserve the water it does get.

One of the ways a tomato plant conserves water is by growing tomatoes with thicker skins. The thick skin on the tomatoes, holds water in better.

*   High heat can also cause a tomato plant to have thick skins. In high heat, tomato fruit can be scalded by the sun.

In order to prevent sunscald on the tomato fruit, the tomato plants will start to produce tomatoes with tougher skins.

The tough tomato skins are less likely to burn in the intense sunlight.

Right now, as you’re reading these words, there are gardeners learning how to to avoid your tomato plants growing tomatoes with thick skin.

And they’re doing it in the easiest, lowest-hassle, most complete way that’s ever been created… by reading my “Breakthrough Growing Organic Tomatoes”ebook.

Shouldn’t YOU be reading this book right now and learning these secrets?

I thought so.

Go here to get a copy to try yourself:

Gardens To Dig – Grow Big Juicy Tomatoes

And send me your success stories after you get it. I want to hear them!

Your Friend,

Polly


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