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One hundred years ago, almost every American family grew some of their own products at home. In rural America, farm families who grow almost all vegetables and raise livestock for meat and dairy needs.

Today, with the advent of mass transportation and the growth of suburban America, there is less and less self-supporting family farms. Many Americans living in urban or suburban areas do most of their grocery shopping in large grocery stores. However, home gardening has reemerged as a popular pastime for families.

Of all vegetables, tomato is considered the most popular crop. Many plant families at least one tomato plant every year, either in your yard or somewhere in the garden around her home. What is the reason for the tomato plant of popularity? It is a very easy plant to grow, thriving in almost every U.S. climatic conditions and soil types. Tomatoes will grow in almost any location that receives at least four hours of sunlight per day. We require regular irrigation to optimize fruit production, but there are some fruits, even in dry conditions.

Tomatoes are fairly disease resistant crops, as well, only occasionally suffering from wilt and leaf blight. Good planting techniques, and pruning can usually prevent these problems. Tomato bugs, whiteflies, cutworms, and can also pose a threat to tomatoes, but these pests can be kept at bay with soap spray, cutworm collars placed at the bottom of the plant, or other commercially available pesticide aerosol.

Because tomatoes are so popular gardeners plant for the home, are usually readily available for purchase as young plants from local garden centers and discount stores during the early spring months of the year. Plants found in stores is probably the most common varieties and hybrids as the best Boy, Steak, Sweet 100 (a type of cherry tomato) and Early Girl. Less common varieties can be bought as seeds and grown “from scratch” by the gardener. Growing plants from seed is certainly a cheaper option that buying plants already established and can be useful, especially when large-scale planting.

Growing plants from seed is not difficult, and many packets of vegetable seeds and herbs usually begin appearing in stores in January or February. Starting from seed inside is a good way to get an advantage over the cycles of growth, and can often translate into large plants and larger harvests. All you really need are the pots filled with soil and a warm, sunny day for them. For optimum from the seeds, you can also use a grow light or heat lamp.

Greenhouses can also be very useful in starting plants from seed, and to create increasingly warm climate for the plants that the surrounding air outside. For the gardener with space restrictions, the table covered green houses can be a good option since it does not take up more space than a small table or work. For the serious gardener with plenty of outdoor space, an outdoor greenhouse largest may be the best option. Greenhouse kits to help you build your own greenhouse are available through specialized catalogs and online shops.

Although home gardening is not what it used to be a century ago, has been adapted with the family and growing and changing our way of life. Most families now get most of their food from grocery stores, however, the small suburban garden continues to thrive as a source of good food and a pleasant pastime for millions of American families today.

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