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Growing the big one – 6 tips for your own prize-winning tomatoes

  • Written by Richard G. Snyder, Professor of Horticulture & Extension Vegetable Specialist, Mississippi State University
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When I answer my office phone as an extension vegetable specialist, from time to time it’s someone asking how they can get recognition for growing a huge tomato, possibly the biggest one ever. When I ask how big a tomato we’re talking about, and the caller says 2 or 2.5 pounds, I...

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