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Originally Posted by tomatoguy
After reading Thawley's post about PL and RL, I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a glossary for the folks who are new to our abbreviated language. I will get the ball rolling. Feel free to add some tomato and gardening terms that appear here on the forum.
DTM - days to maturity - This is the number that you see on seed packs indicating how long (on average) it takes from the time you transplant into the garden until you have ripe fruit. I suppose it is one way of comparing the earliness or lateness of varieties but I have found it pretty much meaningless. I have had tomatoes with a DTM of 85 days come in at 50 and vice versa.
mater
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Excellent idea.....I've only just gotten here and I'm mostly lost. IMNSHO there should be a variety picture index also in the event I visit a garden and the gardener has no idea what varieties they have and I'd be inclined to take a cutting or 2.....I intend to mostly lurk here and thanks to all the experts way in advance......