Tips for Growing the Best Tomatoes

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.

There are always green tomatoes left on the vine in the fall. Deciding whether to pick green tomatoes is a tough call. And then there’s the problem of how to get green tomatoes to ripen. Here are some tips to keep your tomato plants healthy into the fall season and for getting those green tomatoes to ripen on the vine or how to salvage the obstinate green tomatoes you actually have to pick while still green.

There are so many tomatoes varieties that can be grown from seed. If you're looking for a tomato to suit your taste, experiment with a few of these and find your favorites.

Our readers, experienced home gardeners, offer their best tips for growing great tomatoes and avoiding tomato problems.

Most of the tomato varieties grown in home gardeners are considered indeterminate varieties, or vining tomatoes. They continue growing until they are killed by frost and keep setting fruit throughout the growing season.

Determinate tomato varieties tend to reach a fixed height and ripen all their fruit in a short period of time.