10 Tomato Growing Tips For a Huge Crop
I share ten tips for growing tomatoes organically that serve me well each season. They’ll help you grow big tomatoes and lots of them.
Tomatoes
Everything you need to know about growing tomatoes, for the best harvests you’ve ever had. Includes articles for beginners on everything from seed starting to harvest.
Prune Those Tomato Suckers!
Tomato suckers are the growths that appear in the “crotch” between the leaves and the main stem. They should be pruned to encourage more fruit.
Early Blight and Late Blight Control in Tomatoes and Potatoes
Early Blight and Late Blight, although caused by two distinctly different fungi, have the same effect on your tomatoes or potatoes – either one may end your garden season prematurely.
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How To Grow Tomatoes And Other Vegetables In Containers
No space for a garden? You can enjoy fresh tomatoes and other veggies by growing them in containers on your patio, apartment balcony, porch, deck, or even in containers placed around your yard.
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Black Spots on Tomatoes Could Be Blossom-End Rot (BER)
Blossom-end rot in tomatoes frequently appears after a drought. Roots are unable to take up sufficient water to move calcium to the growing fruit.
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How to Water Tomatoes and Other July Gardening Tips
Guest authors Charlie Nardozzi and Dr. Leonard Perry offer gardening tips for July on avoiding blossom end rot in tomatoes, deterring slugs and snails, refreshing annuals, weeding, and more.
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Growing Tomatoes Part 2: Watering, Harvesting, and Saving Seed
Best practices for growing tomatoes, including pruning, watering and saving tomato seeds.
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How to Grow Tomatoes Part 1: Starting Seeds to Transplanting
Tomatoes are the most popular garden vegetable in the world. These tips will get you on your way to growing the best you’ve ever had.
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Review: Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook
Tomatoland explores the true cost of the American tomato: the science, the breeding, and believe it or not, the modern day slavery.
How To Prune Tomato Plants for More Fruit
Prune tomato plant to direct more of the plant’s energy into fruit production and less into creating new foliage.