Sweet 100 Tomato
Quick grow facts
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What it is
Tomatoes are an edible, annual or herbaceous perennial warm-season vegetable in the nightshade family (Solanaceae). (Species-level info; not specific to this variety.)
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Cautions
Tomatoes are susceptible to many pests, including stink bugs, cutworms, tomato hornworms, tobacco hornworms, aphids, cabbage looper, whiteflies, tomato fruit worms, flea beetles, red spider mites, slugs and Colorado potato beetle. Diseases include blights, blossom end-rot, verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt, tobacco mosaic virus, and bacterial and viral diseases; please refer to this useful resource for tomato diseases and their management . Leaves and stems cause headaches, abdominal pain, dilated pupils, vomiting, diarrhea, hypersalivation, severe gastrointestinal upset, circulatory and respiratory depression, and loss of sensation if eaten in large quantities.
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