Solanum
Solanum is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance, the potato, the tomato and the eggplant. It also contains the nightshades and horse nettles, as well as numerous plants cultivated for their ornamental flowers and fruit.
lycopersicum) appear in the garden approximately 45 to more than 100 days after you transplant the seedlings outside. The appearance of the tomato’s yellow flowers indicate that the plant has begun the process of producing fruit.
In respect to this,When to start tomato seeds in your garden?
My vegetable-seed calculator tool can tell you when to start your tomatoes and other crops. All sound like too much trouble? You can direct-sow tomato seed right in the garden if your season is 4 months or longer between frosts…and if you are vigilant about weeding, watering and all the other steps in tomato TLC.
Similarly, it is asked,Is a tomato a flowering plant?
Botanically, a tomato is a fruit—a berry, consisting of the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant.
Also question is,When do Tomatoes set fruit?
A tomato plant produces fruit in 49 to 98 days (7 to 14 weeks) when grown from a transplant. A tomato plant grown directly from seed takes 25 days longer (74 to 123 days) to produce fruit. Indeterminate tomato varieties will continue to grow and produce fruit until they are stopped or killed by cold or frost.
Can you grow tomatoes in a vegetable garden?
Growing tomatoes is often the impetus for starting a vegetable garden, and every tomato lover dreams of growing the ultimate tomato: firm but juicy, sweet but tangy, aromatic, and blemish free. Perfection. Unfortunately, there are few vegetables that are prone to more problems than tomatoes.