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Complete planting guide for Tomatoes including state specific varieties, planting dates, nutrition facts, planting, watering, fertilizing, insect and disease control information...

Are heirlooms really as good and tasty as good old hybrids like Better Boy or BeefMaster? I am growing Old German, Cherokee Purple, Boxcar Willie and several yellows... I've dedicated the majority of my small garden to heirlooms. Hope they are all they are cracked up to be.

Call it a case of mistaken plant identity. A 15-year-old boy climbed into Angela Cartwright's kitchen window thinking to make off with a marijuana plant, but instead the young thief was actually stealing a potted tomato plant, a sheriff's arrest report shows. As he was running from Cartwright's house on Carmen Avenue near Holly Hill on Feb. 10 just after 7 a.m., the teen even yelled at Cartwright, "See, I have one of your pot plants!" the arrest report states. Cartwright had arrived at her residence that morning after leaving her 6-year-old son off at the school bus stop. When...

Tomato farmer complains about the role of the Mafia in southern Italy's fruit and vegetable trade. Last May police broke up "an unusual alliance of Italy's three main crime syndicates controlling wholesale produce markets, including price fixing" as reported by The Associated Press. The 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia, the Camorra or Neapolitan Mafia and Cosa Nostra or Silican Mafia "dropped traditional rivalries to join forces in running fruit and vegetable wholesale markets in central and southern Italy," and "authorities said the mobsters fixed high prices, at the expense of consumers, and decided which trucking companies transported the produce." Police seized...