Dorling Kindersley/Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images. One of the more frustrating things about growing tomatoes is watching a tomato ripen on the vine, slowly growing and changing from green, to pink, to red.... and then looking one morning and seeing that that tomato you've been waiting for has split. Provide your plants with a good two to three inch layer of organic mulch such as straw, pine needles, or shredded bark. 2  This will maintain more regular soil moisture levels, and you'll deal with less splitting. 3  Look for Resistant Varieties. 4  In general, the thicker the skin, the less prone a tomato is to splitting.
The average cost of window installation is $125 per opening for a standard sized casement, double hung or slider. The biggest factor that determines price is the overall condition of your sills and jambs. See prices and descriptions for the different install methods.
Actual Installed Cost: Our estimated installed cost on the Andersen 400 wood clad window is $700 to $900. This is 2x to 3x as much as the $310 big box price. Installation is going to add, on average, $100 per opening.here are a ton of upgrades that will quickly rasie the per window cost from the $310 in our example to as much as $700 for the exact same model window. The big box window price of $310 doesn't include any of the following upgrades-it's what's often referred to as ala carte pricing. Low-e Glass: $25 to $75.