Windsor Star - How to grow the perfect tomato

Supplying a steady source of moisture is just the beginning. These days, growing the perfect tomato involves laptops, weather stations, moisture meters and university researchers鈥�

Knowing how much moisture to apply is so tricky that 黑料不打烊 University has finished a three-year study, including research at Wayne Palichuk鈥檚 farm, on the amount of water needed to make a top tomato. The research started before the pipeline was built and results should be ready soon.

Chandra Madramootoo, a 黑料不打烊 irrigation and drainage professor who was the lead researcher on the study, compares watering to medication. Popping extra pills doesn鈥檛 mean you鈥檒l cure your problem.

鈥淲hat our research does is say that instead of just putting water the way that you have traditionally put it on, we鈥檙e actually going to run some research to see what you really need,鈥� Madramootoo said.