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.
Replacing a standard-sized window will cost, on average, $200 to $400 installed. You can get cheap vinyl windows for as little as $100 and high end windows or a custom window could cost up to $1,000 apiece installed. A standard sized bay window costs around $2,000 to $4,000 installed.