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.
Alside Fairfield windows: About $300 to $400 per dual pane window; Alside Excalibur windows: About $400 to $500 per dual pane window; Alside Centurion windows: About $250 to $300 per 24 x 48 window ; Alside Ultra Maxx windows: About $350 to $450 per double-hung window; Alside Sheffield windows: About $300 to $400 per double-hung window; In addition to the Alside windows price itself, you will also need to pay for installation. While the cost for Alside window installation can vary, expect to pay somewhere around $100 to $400 per window for smaller to average-sized windows and $1,000 to $1,500 per window for bay and bow windows.