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.
Window Installation Prices. I have just started looking at windows this past weekend and visited a store that carried Marvin, Anderson, and Loewen products. I asked what the average cost per hole was and they quoted about $2000. I have 13 average sized windows so a $26,000 price tag seemed somewhat crazy to me.