Hiya all! Joe here with The Farming Report. Being that it is winter and we All know that plants cant grow in the winter (specially when there is a foot of snow on the ground) I have decided that we will folks on a different fruit or veggie every week. If that's OK with ya. :) So this week our fruit is Tomatoes.Oh yah tomatoes ARE a Fruit.
How to say it:
English: tomato
French: tomate
Dutch: tomaat
German: Tomate
Danish: tomat
Spanish: tomate
Italian: pomodoro
Fun Facts:
*Americans eat between 22- 24 pounds of tomatoes per person, per year. (More than half of those munchies are ketchup and tomato sauce.)
*Florida is the number one producer of fresh market tomatoes
*Fresh-market tomatoes are grown in all 50 states.
*The Tomato is a cousin of the eggplant, red pepper, ground cherry, and potato.
How many kinds? The U.S. Department of Agriculture says there are 25,000 tomato varieties.
Do you have a fruit or veggetable you would like to learn more about? Comment below or on The Farming Report page.
Interesting!
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