This week’s quiz (week six) may have a few difficult questions – if you get 70% or above you’ve done really well!
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Question 1
Which of these three varieties is a beefsteak?
Gardener's Delight
Black Cherry
Mortgage Lifter
Question 2
Which of these three varieties is a plum tomato?
Roma
Marmande
Brandywine
Question 3
Which of these three varieties is a cocktail tomato?
Currant Goldrush
Oregon Spring
Black Cherry
Question 4
Which of these three varieties is open pollinated?
Sungold
Moneymaker
Shirley
Question 5
Which of these three varieties is a hybrid?
Ferline
Legend
Caspian Pink
Question 6
Which of these three varieties is indeterminate?
Oregon Spring
Alicante
Tumbling Tom
Question 7
Which of these three varieties is red?
Moneymaker
Sungold
Black Russian
Question 8
Which of these three varieties is yellow?
Gardener's Delight
Golden Sunrise
Alicante
Question 9
Which of these three varieties is yellow with red streaks?
Mortgage Lifter
Marmande
Hill Billy Potato Leaf
Question 10
Which of these three varieties is an Heirloom?
Sungold
Ferline
Amish Gold
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Tomato Growing Quiz - Week Four
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Question 1
Which type of variety is the odd one out?
Cordon
Indeterminate
Determinate
Question 1 Explanation:
A determinate is a bush variety - cordon and indeterminate are tall varieties.
Question 2
Which of the following produces orange fruit?
Gardener's Delight
Sungold
Tumbling Tom
Question 2 Explanation:
Sungold is one of the sweetest toms available.
Question 3
Some tomato varieties have leaves the same shape as potato plants - True or False?
True
False
Question 4
Indeterminate varieties are grown in hanging baskets - True or False?
True
False
Question 4 Explanation:
If they were, you would need a ladder to pick the tomatoes!
Question 5
Heirloom varieties are also called heritage varieties - True or False?
True
False
Question 6
Hybrid varieties are also called F1's - True or False?
True
False
Question 7
Hybrid varieties are also called open pollinated - True or False?
True
False
Question 8
Trailing varieties are best grown in hanging baskets - True or False?
True
False
Question 8 Explanation:
Trailing varieties will also do well in large/high pots so they can trail over the sides without touching the ground.
Question 9
Are some varieties blight tolerant or blight resistant?
Blight Tolerant
Blight Resistant
Question 9 Explanation:
No variety can resist blight completely - but some varieties can hold-out and tolerate damp condiditons for a bit longer!
Legend, Ferline F1 and Losetto F1 are blight tolerant.
Question 10
Seedlings of seeds that have just germinated need lots of tomato food - True or False?
True
False
Question 10 Explanation:
Seedlings of seeds that have just germinated don't need feeding - they come with their own packed lunch!
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The answers to the quiz below are in this weeks newsletter – week 3
Tomato Growing Quiz - Week Three
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Question 1
Moneymaker is a good choice if you live in Kent - True or False?
True
False
Question 2
Sowing seeds too early can make your plants become ...
Leggy
Too bushy
Flower too early
Question 2 Explanation:
They become leggy as they grow too tall in search of more light.
Question 3
Tomato Plants ...
Love rain
Hate rain if it's cold
Like getting wet
Question 3 Explanation:
Rain + cold temperatures = blight
Question 4
Which of the following is not a fungal disease?
Vericillium Wilt
Fusarium Wilt
Nematodes
Question 4 Explanation:
Nematodes are microscopic worms that destroy a tomato plant's roots. There are some friendly nematodes that help kill bugs!
Question 5
Which of the following varieties is "blight tolerant"?
Moneymaker
Gardener's Delight
Ferline
Question 5 Explanation:
Ferline is tolerant to blight but no variety is totally immune in really wet conditions.
Question 6
Grafting takes the roots of a disease resistant variety and grafts it to another tomato plant with less resistance - True or False?
True
False
Question 6 Explanation:
A technique that has been used by professionals for many years and now becoming popular for the home gardener too.
Question 7
Choosing a vigorous variety reduces the chance of disease -True or False?
True
False
Question 7 Explanation:
The quicker a plant grows the fewer diseases it is exposed to - in theory anyway!
Question 8
A grafted tomato plant can be planted directly into soil used in a previous season - True or False?
True
False
Question 8 Explanation:
Because it is highly disease resistant.
Question 9
Wilt diseases often clog-up a plant's plumbing making it difficult to absorb...
Water and Nutrients
Sunlight
Carbon Dioxide
Question 10
Heirlooms are usually more vulnerable to disease than hybrid varieties - True or False?
True
False
Question 10 Explanation:
Heirlooms are usually grown for their taste.
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This week’s quiz – week 2 is based on the “Talking Tomatoes Two” text, so you may like to read that first.
Tomato Growing Quiz - Week Two
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Question 1
Cherry varieties of the cascading/tumbling type are best grown in...
Grow bags
Hanging baskets and large pots
Question 1 Explanation:
If they are grown in grow bags they are more exposed to damage from ground and slugs etc.
Question 2
Which variety is the odd one out?
Moneymaker
Alicante
Tumbling Tom
Question 2 Explanation:
Tumbling Tom is a bush variety, the others are tall/cordon varieties.
Question 3
Which varieties are usually the first to mature?
Beefsteak
Cherry
Question 3 Explanation:
Cherry size toms have less growing to do!
Question 4
Which tomato size is the largest?
Cherry size
Cocktail size
Question 5
The total weight of tomatoes from a cherry plant can often out-weigh that of a beefsteak variety - True or False?
True
False
Question 6
A Red Alert tomato is about...
The size of a golf ball
The size of a cherry
Question 6 Explanation:
Most cherry varieties are bigger than cherries if grown in good size containers.
If last season you had a lot of very small tomatoes it was probably because the hanging baskets were too small - plants often respond to the area they are grown in.
Question 7
Brandywine and Caspian Pink are considered to be two of the best tasting tomatoes available - True or False?
True
False
Question 7 Explanation:
Superb taste, but their yields are very modest in short season areas like the UK.
Question 8
Which of these varieties is not an heirloom?
Hill Billy Potato Leaf
Eve Purple Ball
Sungold
Question 9
Moneymaker, Alicante and Gardener's Delight are all bush varieties - True or False?
True
False
Question 10
Growing a variety of varieties is a good way to increase chances of a good harvest - True or False?
True
False
Question 10 Explanation:
Try a cherry, like Tumbling Tom, a medium/salad such as Alicante and a large beefsteak like Marmande.
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Here’s the first quiz of the season and it’s based on the video which is quite short and informative.
Tomato Growing Quiz - Week One
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Question 1
Tomatoes were once considered poisonous and grown only for decoration -
True or False?
True
False
Question 2
It was also thought that if you ate one it would...
Give you hallucinations
Turn your blood into acid
Turn you into a vampire!
Question 3
The use of pewter silverware combined with acidic tomatoes, sometimes caused lead poisoning in 16th century England - True or False?
True
False
Question 4
The widespread use of wooden utensils by the Italians, meant that they weren't poisoned like the English! True or False?
True
False
Question 4 Explanation:
According to the video of course!
Question 5
Joseph Campbell made a tomato soup which he called...
Cup'a'Soup
Heinz Soup
Cambell's Soup
Question 6
Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
Fruit
Vegetable
Question 7
In America the tomato is classified as a vegetable for tax purposes -
True or False?
True
False
Question 8
Tomatoes were known as...
Love Melons
Love Cherries
Love Apples
Question 9
Italians are famous for their...
Yorkshire Puddings
Spanish Tortillas
Sauces and Pizzas
Question 9 Explanation:
That was a tricky one!
Question 10
There are over 2000 varieties of tomato plants -
True or False?
True
False
Question 10 Explanation:
I read somewhere there are over 2500!
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Red Alert
Tumbling Tom
Tumbler
Sungold F1
Black Cherry
Gardener's Delight
Alicante
Losetto F1
Golden Cherry F1
Oregon Spring
Beam's Yellow Pear
Legend
Chocolate Cherry
Brandywine
Moneymaker