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Initially tomatoes would have been more available to city dwellers, as market gardens with greenhouses developed on the fringes of large urban conurbations. The expansion of the railways, increased supplies from the Channel Islands, and the developing greenhouse industry on the south coast of England steadily widened availability. In America, where the tomato had become very popular from the mid-1800s, the growers had a lucky break: in 1893, flying in the face of botanical facts, the US supreme court classed the tomato as a vegetable rather than a fruit, and as all imported vegetables were taxed at the time (whereas fruits were not), supplies from Cuba and Mexico dried up, leaving the way clear for domestic growers to fill the supply gap.
In the UK and northern Europe, and to some extent in North America, the structure used for commercial tomato production is usually a large glass greenhouse equipped with a full heating system; this is because summers are short and the conditions for outdoor cropping unreliable, and being able to protect and heat the crop gives a number of options to extend the length of the cropping season. In southern Europe and the Mediterranean region, Africa and Asia, sheet or film plastic-clad structures (often known as polytunnels) are used, the main function of these being to conserve water and provide some protection from the extremes of temperatures often encountered (very hot days followed by cold nights), or other weather extremes such as heavy rain.
The red fruit is olive-sized and shaped, and the plant crops well into the late season. Indeterminate or Cordon Types Cherry-Fruited Types A favourite of the gardener long before they became commercially available, cherry-fruited types are usually very prolific in fruiting and easy to grow. For outdoor crops they have the advantage of being slightly earlier to ripen than the larger-fruited types, and also suffer less from fruit disorders such as cracking and blossom end rot. Cherry-fruited tomatoes tend to be more popular with children as they are usually sweeter than other types; the first three places in the British Tomato Growers Association’s tastiest tomato competition of 2007 were taken by cherry-fruited cultivars.