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GOOD NUTRITION
- In the casting never wet the leaves
Tomatoes need lots of nutrients. Manuring the plants from the beginning of flowering every 14 days with a potassium-rich tomato fertilizer (stores) or put some home-made nettle or Beinwelljauche into irrigation water.
When water is: Never wait until the soil dried out completely. Not only the thin-fruit varieties such as’ Yellow Pearshaped ‘or’ Berner Rosen burst “or else easily.
Pour especially the tomatoes covered regularly in hot periods daily. It’s best to water early in the morning. While the earth is still cool, you should use water temperate.
Tips for a bountiful tomato harvest
When growing tomatoes sorrow are close together and Freud: A warm, dry summer guarantees a rich harvest, a rainy season makes thwarted any effort. With a little know-how, the chances are good tomatoes from the garden to enjoy year of each.
- Up to 250 g of melon tomato juice barely loses in cutting
As with any other vegetables in tomato-use determine the variety of personal taste and choice. Equally important is the resistance to the most important tomato diseases.
As a fruity-sweet Naschtomaten suitable round or plum tomatoes like ‘Sweet one million’ or ‘Dasher’. ‘Philovita’ is one of the few varieties that cabbage and brown rot an entire summer defy, and ‘Orangutan’ provides countless bright orange fruit with a distinctive aroma.
Especially in the Italian kitchen are solid plum tomatoes, juice and low-core meat-and-such ‘Morty’, ‘Argo’ and ‘Corrianne’ very popular. Among the specialties are also rediscovering old varieties like the ‘Andean squirrel’ or the bright yellow pineapple tomato.
TOMATOES IN STOCK
TOMATOES IN STOCK
- Dried tomatoes are a delicacy
Tomatoes can be frozen well, or dry or preserved sauce make tomato paste as. Fresh tomatoes should not be kept in the refrigerator because they will lose flavor. Instead of storing an airy, shady place. Tomatoes exude – like apples – ethylene, the other fruit ripen faster, but can also spoil more rapidly.
WHAT FITS IN TOMATOES?
Tomatoes can be prepared on a wide variety: whether raw, cooked or dried, depending on the preparation method, they develop their taste in very different ways. The best dish with handle forever because there most of the vitamins in it put the. Puree in sauces and soups with just the shell. Remove the stalk, but always, as it contains small amounts of toxic solarium.
TOMATOES FOR THE HEALTH
The tasty fruits contain not only vitamins A (good for the eyes), C (strengthens the immune system), E (cancer prevention) and K (improves blood clotting), but also potassium, folate, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, sodium and selenium. Even to put the tomato full of carotenoids, free radicals to prevent premature skin aging and capture. And at just 20 calories per 100 grams!
Tomatoes – treat with cancer screening
DST, tomato time: Who gets the thought of sun-ripened tomatoes with fresh herbs not to rave? Not for nothing, they were also used to love apple or tomato (Austrian for “paradise apple”) and called the Italian name “pomodoro” means translated “golden apple”.
- Originally from South America was originally classified as toxic nightshade family and began his career in this country as an ornamental plant. The German name “tomato” is derived from the Aztec word “Tomatl off,” which like “Schwellfrucht” means so much.
Vegetables with anti-wrinkle effect
It does not always expensive anti-wrinkle cream to be: One of the best natural resources for a firm skin are red plant pigments, called carotenoids. They relate primarily to red, orange or yellow fruits and vegetables.
Carotenoids bind free radicals and slow down so the skin aging. Peppers, tomatoes and carrots are particularly effective, but also squash, watermelon and grapefruit are rich red, orange or yellow carotenoids.
Paprika contains bind in addition to vitamins especially many carotenoids, the free radicals
The biggest anti-wrinkle is the potential of alpha-and beta-carotene and lycopene. This was a comprehensive study with participants between 40 and 50 years identified as. Those who are high concentrations of all three carotenoids were found in the skin, had significantly fewer wrinkles.
He who eats pounds of carrots and tomatoes, is not necessarily an advantage: How much is actually taken from the material, depends on several factors. Because carotenoids are fat soluble, they are utilized better when vegetables with a little olive oil, butter or cream prepared it. Important: Not all fat has this effect. Safflower oil or margarine contain polyunsaturated fatty acids, which do not fulfill this purpose.
Chicory drive and prepare
If it is really cold outside, it is time for delicious chicory leaves. We explain how the chicory roots in the fall of drives and provide ideas for clever recipes.
In the late fall and winter chicory roots are driven in dark crates to get the tasty shoots. In Germany and the U.S. (called the chicory "endives eat") is more than raw chicory salad, in the Benelux countries, he likes to eat steamed and fried
In late autumn it is: in the spring sown chicory seeds are designed so thick roots, that they now can drive in dark boxes or buckets. There they will form from her tender, tasty leaves.
Typical regional vegetable varieties
Mobile market stall: in the lagoon city is the boat transportation and Stall at the same time
What is particularly exciting for fans of vegetables: In the Italian markets you can discover typical regional varieties that are little known in Germany, while the number of which are suitable for our gardens. Often has the name of the variety already out on their respective origin: The red-white elongated radicchio ‘Rosso di Treviso’ comes originally from the province of Treviso, north of Venice, while the green cauliflower (Cavolfiore) ‘Verde di Macerata’ in his homeland , the Province of Macerata in the Marche.
The sunny south is home to many tomato varieties. In Germany, the elongated species ‘San Marzano’ long been an enthusiastic following. The tomato from the Campanian town of San Marzano sul Sarno (Salerno) is particularly aromatic. Even preserved in the can, it retains its intense flavor and is perfect for a delicious spaghetti sauce.
Italy: This is an experience Vegetables
Italy: The country south of the Alps is full of surprises. For garden lovers there is the bustling markets discover too.
On tour in Italy: in the winding alleyways of old town of Palermo you will find many vegetable markets, such as the famous Vucciria
Laden with bulging shopping bags housewives pushing through the narrow streets of Palermo, past numerous market stands with the finest fruits and vegetables. One of the dealers loudly praises his goods to – green pencil asparagus, bright red tomatoes and crisp fresh lettuce. Besides presenting a farmer’s freshly picked purple cauliflower. Artistically, he has piled up the cabbages in the back of his rickety three-wheel van.
