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What's best? A determinate or an indeterminate variety?

Tomato plants are broadly divided into two types: indeterminate and determinate. This refers to their way of growing.

“A plant that grows and produces flowers and fruit until killed by frost or some other external factor is called indeterminate,” explains Hortgro's Antonius Lecuona.

The term, he adds, is applied to tomato varieties that grow “in a

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