Patti Moreno shows you how she grows her night shade plants, heirloom tomatoes and heirloom potatoes.  Both tomatoes and potatoes belong to the night shade families. To hold the potatoes with ground, we have to use either soil or mulch. The tuber grows above the seed potato. Once the flowers come out of the tubers, you can start harvesting them in proper temperature. Tomato seeds are need to be grown indoors. Then they are grown outside in open environment in the proper temperature. A varieties of methods are used to grow tomatoes. Some important facts about tomatoes: Tomatoes get the red color due to lycopin. Lycopin is an anti-oxidant which helps in fight varieties of cancer. For more information please visit: