Tomato plants can be hugely rewarding to grow. If you choose the right variety, you can get plants that will grow tall and provide a consistent harvest throughout the summer months. When you get ...

Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding—and sometimes most frustrating—plants to grow in the garden. Just as the fruit begins to ripen, gardeners often face problems like cracked skins, blackened ...

Tomatoes are the quintessential summer garden crop, but they’re not always simple to grow. In fact, by this point in the growing season, even the most experienced gardener may be having problems.

Nothing says “summer” to your taste buds more sweetly and juicily than a ripe, red tomato picked fresh from your garden. More than 85 percent of home gardeners grow them each season, reports the ...

As we move into the summer, and with all of these wonderful afternoon thunderstorms, our tomatoes begin to show signs of a few different problems. Below are a few common ones that we see here in Logan ...

One of the most versatile and rewarding plants in a summer edible garden is the tomato. According to a 2014 study by the National Gardening Association, 86 percent of homes with vegetable gardens grow ...

Nothing gets a gardener's juices going quicker than discovering a big fat caterpillar munching on tomato leaves. Truth be told, however, caterpillars -- worms, as we like to call them -- bother ...

If your tomato plants aren't looking as vibrant as your neighbor's, you're not alone or out of luck. Kathy Hensley with the Macon-Bibb County UGA Extension office is offering insight into some of the ...

Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. Here are 4 common problems with tomatoes during the ...

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Two tomato problems: little hard scars or rings of slasher-like cracks on the top of the tomatoes and/or roundish black rotten spots on the sides. The side spots grow big and may collapse in the ...

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