Tomato Tips

Tips for growing great tomatoes and trouble shooting tomato growing problems.

Tomatoes are a little unique, when it comes time to plant them. Unlike most plants, tomatoes can be buried deeply. Here's how to do it right.

Fresh tomatoes mean summer - sunshine, easy living and delectable food. For gardeners, tomatoes are an eternal quest. They're easy enough to grow, but a real trophy to grow well. Who hasn't sought out one more tip for growing the perfect, aromatic, unblemished, sun-ripened tomato? We're here to share our tomato growing tips with you. Getting the...

Tomato plants know what they like and they grow well when you give it to them. Growing the best tasting or the earliest tomato is a great source of pride for the home gardener and here are 10 tips for growing terrific tomatoes.

Companion planting for tomatoes can improve the tomatoes growth and flavor and repel insects and diseases. Choosing companion plants for your tomatoes should be easy because companion plants for tomatoes include many of these popular garden vegetables.

You have the most control over a garden when it’s in a container.

Tomatoes are subject to many common problems. Many tomato problems does show themselves until the fruit starts to ripen? With blossom end rot, green shoulders and tomato cracking, what can be done to save the ripening tomatoes? How can these problems be reduced with future tomatoes?

There are many diseases that affect tomatoes. Tomato diseases are often weather dependent and can spread rapidly. Here are some common tomato diseases, their symptoms and what to do if tomato diseases threaten your home vegetable garden.

Tomato and potato plants with late blight will die quickly, but you can still use the fruits and tubers. Are they safe to eat? Can you still store them? Should you risk replanting next year? Here are some answers.

Tomato suckers, or side shoots, are the growth that appears in the crotch between the stem and a branch. If left to grow, tomato suckers will become another main stem with branches, flowers, fruit and more suckers of their own. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes not so good. Here are some guidelines for when to prune your tomatoes and how much.

Seed saving is the only way to make sure you have seeds of your favorite plants to grow each year. Tomato seeds need special handling to ensure good germination. Here's how to begin saving tomato seeds.

Too many green tomatoes on the vine and the cold weather is looming? Here's a quick tip to get those last beautiful tomatoes to vine ripen in time for picking.

If you’re a die-hard tomato grower, you’ve probably heard about using red plastic mulch to improve your tomato yield and get your tomatoes to ripen earlier. Early testing did show a considerable benefit from mulching tomatoes with a specific shade of red plastic. But like all things in the garden, there are a lot of variables that prevent the...

Tomatoes are responsible for the initial interest in heirloom vegetables and the book 100 Heirloom Tomatoes is written by an expert who has tried them all. If you lament tomatoes not tasting as good as you remember, this book will help you choose varieties to grow that will have everyone discovering new faorites.

Tomatoes have a unique place in the cooking world. They're as acceptable sliced on a plate as they are roasted in a cassoulet. The only requirement for a wonderful tomato dish is a great tasting tomato and a tomato recipe that allows all its flavors to come through. So whether your idea of the best tomato dish is fresh tomatoes with mozzarella or your grandmother's tomato sauce, you're right.