Tomato plants can be found growing in almost every garden. Nothing tastes better than homegrown fresh tomatoes. Tomatoes are one of the easiest plants to grow and care for in the garden. People use tomatoes to make sauces, ketchup, salsa, or juice. They can be sliced and put on a sandwich, tossed into a salad, ...
Everyone wants to get his or her tomatoes in the ground as early as possible. Unfortunately, Mother Nature isn’t always cooperative. With your own home made wall-o-water protectors, you can set tomato plants out weeks before the last frost. I’ve tired commercial products for this and didn’t like them for a variety of reasons. I ...
I’d heard that growing tomato from seeds was difficult and that I’d be better off purchasing small tomato plants, but I found it to be very easy. My first time growing tomatoes from seed, I started them indoors long before the last frost thinking if they didn’t work out, I had plenty of time to ...
When choosing tomatoes to grow in your home garden, fruit size, flavor and days to maturity are obvious considerations, but they shouldn’t be the only consideration. Tomatoes are classified according their growing habits. Determinate tomatoes grow to a predetermined height (typically 1 ½ to 2 feet) and cease growing while indeterminate tomatoes continue to grow ...
