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.
Mid-Grade Windows. If you live in Philadelphia, for example, the total cost to install mid-grade windows on average is between $346 and $470 per window. Included in this cost would be between $848 and $1,669 for the labor to install 10 windows -- the average number of windows in a home.Additional tools and supplies run from $168 to a high of $182 per window at the time of publication. This represents an overall cost of $3,465 to $4,679 for 10 windows.esides the size of the window, the type of window frame and the number of panes drive the cost of the window itself. If you lived in Los Angeles, for instance, and hired a licensed, bonded contractor to install 10 windows in your home, expect to pay an average of between $1,157 and $1,552 per window.