Should I cut dead leaves off my tomato plant?

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asked Jul 9, 2022 in Gardening by yelpiRD (840 points)
Should I cut dead leaves off my tomato plant?

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answered Jul 10, 2022 by Micolucci (9,560 points)
You can and should cut dead leaves off your tomato plant and doing so can help your tomato plant thrive without the dead leaves.

Removing leaves is a great way to speed up the growth of new tomatoes.

Removing some of the leaves will help the sun reach the tomatoes, and they will ripen faster.

The plant will focus more energy on growing the tomatoes if you remove some of the leaves too.

Tomato plant leaves can sometimes naturally and normally turn yellow because they are providing nitrogen to the younger leaves of the tomato plant to survive.

In some cases it may because of an iron deficiency that the tomato plant leaves turn yellow or they are being over watered.

The most popular tomato plant is the Beefsteak Tomato Plant.

The second most popular tomato plant is the Cherokee Purple Tomato Plant.

Ants don't usually eat or bother tomato plants but instead the ants are more interested in the presence of aphids or whiteflies, sap-feeding pests that produce copious amounts of honeydew, a substance that ants use for food.

When Epsom salt is used on tomatoes and tomato plants the Epsom salt helps to increase the yield of the tomatoes and helps keep the tomato plant green and bushy.

Make up a solution of about a teaspoon of Epsom salts per liter (quarter gallon) of water in a spray bottle.

Simply wet the foliage on your tomato plants every two weeks using a fine spray setting.

It will quickly be absorbed by the leaves.

Avoid spraying on hot, sunny days or when rain is imminent.

Rosada Tomatoes are the sweetest tomatoes to grow.

Lycopersicon esculentum 'Rosada' bears large crops of delicious cherry plum tomatoes on indeterminate (cordon) plants.

Suitable for growing in a greenhouse or on a sunny patio, grow 'Rosada' in full sun for the sweetest flavor.

The best and healthiest tomato to eat is the Heirloom Tomato.

Heirloom tomatoes are typically the healthiest tomatoes, because they're not genetically modified and tend to retain the highest level of antioxidants of all the tomato varieties.

Other healthiest tomatoes to eat are.

Aunt Ruby's German Green Tomato.
Black Krim Tomato.
Brandywine Tomato.
Cherokee Purple Tomato.
Ferris Wheel Tomato.
Paul Robeson Tomato.
German Red Strawberry Tomato.
Georgia Streak Tomato.

You can eat a tomato with seeds sprouting inside.

As long as the tomato is not actually rotten it's safe to eat a tomato even with the seeds are sprouting inside.

It would take a large quantity of tomato sprouts, leaves and stems to give a human a toxic dose; eating one or two is not likely to cause any kind of health issues.

Still, if there are any doubts or if there are any allergy issues, it might be advisable to avoid eating sprouted tomatoes.

But for the most part the tomatoes with sprouts inside are safe to eat.

A tomato is, biologically, a fruit, since its seeds are on on the inside, and those seeds had germinated.

When this happens, it's called Vivipary, which is Latin for “live birth” My tomato, meant for salad, was experiencing live birth.

Seeds germinating inside a tomato is called vivipary.

It occurs in overripe fruit when seeds have reached maturity and the natural hormone, abscisic acid (ABA), is reduced.

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.

The species originated in western South America, Mexico, and Central America.

The Mexican Nahuatl word tomatl gave rise to the Spanish word tomate, from which the English word tomato derived.

To a botanist, a fruit is an entity that develops from the fertilized ovary of a flower.

This means that tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, corn kernels, and bean and pea pods are all fruits; so are apples, pears, peaches, apricots, melons and mangos.

Tomatoes are botanically defined as fruits because they form from a flower and contain seeds.

Still, they're most often utilized like a vegetable in cooking.

In fact, the US Supreme Court ruled in 1893 that the tomato should be classified as a vegetable on the basis of its culinary applications.

Tomatoes are the major dietary source of the antioxidant lycopene, which has been linked to many health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and cancer.

They are also a great source of vitamin C, potassium, folate, and vitamin K.

Eating tomatoes daily will provide you with many vitamins and minerals, but you'll still receive the benefits if you eat them less often.

There is no recommended number of tomatoes to eat per day.

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