The tomato is poisonous. The tomato is, in fact, perfectly harmless, and mighty tasty as well. This myth originated when people noticed that the tomato is related to the nightshade, a wild plant with toxic berries. The fruits themselves are fleshy bodies containing seeds. Tomatoes meet all these criteria.
All tomatoes are red when ripe.
There are myriad varieties of tomato, and not all of them are red when ripe. Tomatoes run from yellow to deep purple in color. For example, the Lemon Boy variety is yellow, and the Cherokee Purple is, well, purple. Back to the Top Growing tomatoes is fun and yields many great tasting fruit. However, a person cannot just plop a couple of seeds into the ground and hope for them to grow.