You can start tomatoes from seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before the last frost date in your area. Use seed-starting trays ...

You’ll want to look at determinate versus indeterminate varieties. Determinate tomatoes grow quickly but stop their vertical growth at a specific height, generally around four feet tall. They tend to ...

University of Illinois entomology professor Esther Ngumbi is purposely flooding tomatoes to see how they might respond to ...

It's almost impossible to get a great tomato in the dead of winter—unless, that is, you grow your own indoors. This year I'm ...

Tomato season is upon us with a tantalizing variety of easy to grow heirloom tomatoes in a range of colours, flavour, and ...

Growing plants in containers is great if you have limited space and/or crummy soil, but the downside is that you have to be ...

“It’s a continuous race against the evolution of new pathogens. We as humans want to eat a lot, but so do insects, birds, ...

Tomatoes are one of the most popular food plants in the world, and as such, have undergone massive amounts of selective ...

Growing tomatoes is fairly simple, and as there is such a range of tomato varieties available to grow there will be a type suited to any size of garden. Fertilizing tomato plants plays an important ...

The best results in preserving come when fruits, herbs and vegetables are harvested at their peak. Toss or compost any that ...

On harvest days at Three Creeks Farm and Forest in the Missouri River valley, farm owner Emily Wright and her staff collect ...

Not all plant and seed sellers are the same, and knowing the background of such companies can help you grow the best fruits ...