Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Honey Brook, PA Zone 6b
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First, I apologize for the weediness of my garden. I usually mulch to suppress weeds, but as my garden tractor is down for an undetermined amount of time, that is not going to happen. I'm back to hoeing, but haven't gotten properly to it.
At times I've seen a few people confused between the potato leave (PL), regular leaf (RL), and regular leafed variant "Wispy". I accidently have a serendipitous planting of an example of each that demonstrates the difference. These should only be used as a guide for in each category the individual genetics of a variety can make differences in the 'look' I the first photo is the row of 3 tomatoes with the Wispy on the left, the RL in center and the PL on the right. (The varieties are Opalka, Submarine Blush, and Indian Striped Potato Leafed) WispyRLPL.jpg WispyRLPL.jpg The next photos are individual closeups of individual leaves: The PL Indian Stripe Potato Leaf: PotatoLeaf.jpg PotatoLeaf.jpg The RL Submarine Blush: RegularLeaf.jpg RegularLeaf.jpg The Wispy Opalka: WispyLeaf.jpg WispyLeaf.jpg |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
Posts: 5,931
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great examples and illustration of each
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a
Posts: 21,169
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http://faq.gardenweb.com/discussions...-tomato-leaves Some of the pictures are missing since Houzz bought Garden Web, but examples, by name, are given for each category. In that other thread I also referred to the 5 kinds of PL leaves that a German site illustrated, the link is no longer available and the only one I remember was one called mitten shaped. Unfortunately due to software problems I can't view pictures from attachments, only if complete pictures are shown. Just noting that the correct name is Indian Stripe, not Striped, which was a typo at Sandhill Preservation. http://t.tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Indian_Stripe Carolyn
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