growing tomatoes

  • staked tomatoes
    How-To

    Tips for Growing Tomatoes in the Southeast

    If you do any vegetable gardening at all in the Southeast, you likely grow tomatoes. Even people who don’t particularly care for tomatoes often can’t resist planting a few every…

  • cherry tomatoes
    Kitchen Gardening

    Tips to Grow Better Cherry Tomatoes in Northern California

    Though technically a fruit, the tomato is the most popular homegrown vegetable, with thousands of tasty varieties available for the kitchen gardener to choose from. Tomatoes can range from big…

  • Early blight symptoms
    How-To

    How to Identify and Combat Tomato Blights

    Each year as spring warms into summer, verdant vegetables hold the attention of many an eager gardener. As growers monitor their tomato plants, they may ­notice scattered yellow spotting, a…

  • red and yellow tomatoes
    How-To

    Tips for Growing Tomatoes in the Mid-Atlantic

    As many gardeners know, growing tomatoes in the Mid-Atlantic can be difficult. Diseases and pests can afflict any vegetable, but it seems to be most frustrating when that happens to…

  • tomato harvest
    Collection

    Fine Gardening’s Guide to Growing Great Tomatoes

    Is there anything more magical than the first perfectly ripe tomato of summer? If you have harvested this iconic summer fruit from your own plants, you know it is one…

  • Celebrity tomato
    How-To

    The Best Tomatoes for the Southeast

    Many people’s first foray into gardening begins with a tomato. But not everyone is successful on their first go-around. The southeastern United States brings with it its own unique challenges…

  • Design

    Eva’s Vegetable Garden Beauty

    Today we’re visiting with Eva in southern New Hampshire. (See more on her Instagram.) I’m a 28-year-old mother of two. I’ve been gardening for the last four years. I started…

  • DIY garden structures
    Design

    Three Garden Structures You Can Build

    Lashed poles, hoops,l and sticks give vining beans and tomatoes handsome support. These structures, from the gardens of historic Old Salem, a Moravian village in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, are a…

  • Article

    5 Terrific Tomatoes for Northern California

    There’s nothing like the psychological boost obtained when planting the first tomato of the year out in the garden - the touch of fragrant foliage, the joy of watching your…

  • How-To

    A Review of Tomato Gadgets

    When it comes to growing tomatoes, everyone wants to grow the first, the biggest, and the most. And while growing tomatoes isn’t that hard, numerous pitfalls and setbacks can beset…