Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

When your tomato plants aren't flowering, here's how to solve the problem so you can get fruit before summer's end. Both cold and hot temperature extremes can cause a lack of tomato flowers. Pruning, ...

Tomato plants are hard enough to grow successfully, without sneaky competitors getting in the way. It may seem these two ...

PORT ANGELES — Jenny Glass will present “Tips for Diagnosing Tomato Plant Problems” at noon Thursday. The free lecture is part of the Green Thumb Garden Tips series streaming on Zoom. Glass has been a ...

Grocery store tomatoes can’t hold a candle to a sun-warmed, freshly-picked, homegrown ripe tomato, but growing your own tomatoes isn’t always as easy as we might like. Many diseases can affect ...

Most everyone who gardens grows tomatoes of one kind and color. Some like them red and some yellow, while others like them black and others like them orange. But one thing about growing tomatoes: most ...

Pulling out your tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) by the roots at the end of the season might feel like a proper cleanup. But it could be the number one mistake you can make in your garden. This ...

Is there ever a “normal” year for growing tomatoes here in North Central Texas? One spring it’s a late freeze. Another year it turns hot really early. And then there’s been this year, when the ...

Tomato plants are sensitive to broadleaf weed killers, too, which can warp and thicken skin. Consistent watering, prevention of foliar diseases and other good practices can help. Chemically damaged ...

Plant a tomato from your refrigerator, and you might grow dinner for months…or you might grow a lesson in disappointment. The grocery store seed hack promises cheap abundance, and sometimes it ...

Tomato farming has become a high-stakes, high-input business where success depends on getting many moving parts right at once ...