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How to Save Tomato Seeds for Next Year

You have successfully grown and harvested your best crop of tomatoes ever. So it would stand to reason that you would like to duplicate your efforts next year. The problem is that by next year, you may forget what seeds you bought or your local garden center may change brands or varieties making it all [...]

Growing the Organic Tomato Garden

So what is an organic garden? Well, this simply means that you grow everything completely natural with no pesticides and no synthetic fertilizers. But I like to say that organic gardening is more about what you do rather than what you do not do. It is the way you interact with nature and use the [...]

How to Plant Tomato Crops With Great Success

Tomato growers are a very proud group but despite our best efforts, we don’t always get the results we were striving for. Much of our tomato growing success depends on the weather and as you well know, we have no control there whatsoever. If we plant too early and a frost hits, it will doom [...]

Pruning a Tomato Plant

You have successfully grown your tomato plants from seeds or seedlings into healthy growing tomato plants. Now it is time to assist the plant by getting it to grow the biggest and best fruit possible. One way we do this is by pruning. Pruning is the process gardeners use to rid the plant of leaves [...]

Growing Hydroponic Tomatoes

Before we dig in, let’s find out what that big word “Hydroponic” means. Technically speaking, hydroponic (from the Greek words hydro, water and ponos, labor) is a method of growing different plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without any soil at all. Early researchers determined that soil simply provided the necessary nutrients to the [...]

Growing Hanging Tomato Plants

Growing hanging tomato plants is the method of choice for many tomato gardeners these days. I’m sure the reasons are numerous but mine is simple.  I have a bad back and by growing hanging tomatoes, I can basically do everything I need to do to maintain the plant standing straight up and my back loves [...]

Growing a Tomato Garden

There are numerous horror stories I’ve run across about people experiencing less than stellar tomato crops but it doesn’t have to be that way. If you scour the internet, you can quickly be intimidated, if you allow yourself, because of the numerous articles, books and internet posts available for growing tomatoes today. Well I’m here [...]

Growing Winter Tomatoes

Growing winter tomatoes is becoming a popular past-time for many gardeners.  This is probably because the tomato is without a doubt the most popular home-grown vegetable. Even if you don’t live in Florida or Texas, you can set up your indoor garden and be growing winter tomatoes before you know it. Wouldn’t you love to [...]

Growing Tomatoes Indoors

When we think of growing tomatoes we typically think of a big, beautiful outdoor garden, specifically laid out to house a myriad of different vegetables. The problem is that not everyone is blessed with enough outdoor space to be able to accommodate an outdoor garden. Do not fear because growing tomatoes indoors can be just [...]