If you love garden fresh tomatoes, then you hate store bought. One of the hardest parts about growing your own tomatoes is that you learn what good quality tomatoes should taste like. And it’s ...
When To Start Indoor Tomato Plants for Winter Growing
Growing tomatoes indoors is a great way to overcome the winter tomato blues. What are the winter tomato blues? The blues you get because you love fresh tomatoes and you grow your own in the ...
The EASIEST Roasted Tomato Sauce You Can Make
Homemade tomato sauce is one of the most rewarding things you can do with your homegrown tomatoes. (That’s saying a lot because there are so many wonderful things to do with the tomatoes you ...
All About Tomato Hornworms + 10 Tips For Dealing With Them
Tomato hornworms are one of the more common pests that attack tomato plants. They can be a serious problem in the home tomato garden that damages plants and sometimes the fruit, too. If you grow ...
9+ Organic Solutions for Tomato Hornworms
Imagine a caterpillar so big you can literally hear it eating your tomato plants. That is the tomato hornworm by the time it reaches its pupating phase. A common and almost guaranteed tomato ...
9 Tips To Prevent Blight in Tomato Plants
Blight –both early and late blight – are common diseases of tomatoes. Blight is extremely frustrating, because it is a disease that affects your plants later in their lives. As in, just when you ...
6 Good Ways to Support Tomato Plants (Stakes, Trellises and More)
With the exception of dwarf plants, most tomato plants need to be supported. Where there used to be only a couple of options for doing this, we now have several good ways to support tomatoes. The ...
How To Plant Tomatoes: A Quick Start Guide
Tomatoes are easy to plant and not too difficult to grow (though there are some pests and diseases you may need to deal with – a topic for another day later in the season!). If you’re new to ...
How To Harden Off Tomato Plants Before Planting (+ Why!)
It’s important to harden off your tomato plants before you plant them outside. You do not want to skip this step, or your tomato plants might suffer. What is Hardening Off? Hardening off is ...
12 Best Green Tomato Varieties (Green When Ripe!)
When we think about green tomatoes, most of us think about picking unripe tomatoes early, while they are still green. Unripe green tomatoes are used in several ways. The most popular is in making ...
20 Best-Looking Colored Tomato Varieties (Other Than Red)
When it comes to the top colored tomato varieties, heirlooms are the way to go. These are tried and true favorites that offer much more than beauty that only runs skin deep. The tomato varieties ...
12 Largest Tomato Varieties (Giant Tomatoes)
Do you love growing big tomatoes? Or maybe the bragging rights that go along with them? This is the list for you! We’ve picked 12 of the biggest and best of the large tomato varieties. ...
2 Simple Methods to Start Tomatoes from Seed
In all but the warmest of locations, tomatoes should be started indoors from seed. Even in warm and tropical locations, growers often opt to start tomato plants indoors because they have better ...
11+ Best Tomato Varieties for Dehydrating and Sun-Drying
The best types of tomatoes for dehydrating and sun drying are elongated, paste-type tomatoes. Plum tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, oval-shaped, and pear-shaped Italian tomatoes are the best for drying and ...
20 Tomato Varieties for the Best Salsa
What is the best type of tomato for making salsa? Overall, for a salsa tomato, you are looking for something with enough meaty firmness to hold up well and not turn your salsa into puddles of juice ...
14 Dual and Multi-Purpose Tomatoes
We tend to focus a lot on tomatoes for slicing and fresh eating and on tomatoes for canning and saucing. But the fact of the matter is that there are many tomato varieties that can do double duty – or ...
16 Tomato Varieties for Canning
When it comes to the best tomatoes for canning, several varieties fit the bill well. A lot depends on what kinds of canned products you’re planning to make: Some of the other tomatoes on this ...
20 Best Tomatoes for Making Sauce
Tomato sauce is, arguably, one of the best reasons to grow your own tomatoes. When it comes to making tomato sauce, not all tomatoes are alike. In fact, there is a very specific set of traits you want ...
14 Heat Tolerant Tomato Varieties (Sun Loving Tomato Plants)
High heat can be a real issue when growing tomatoes. When temperatures get too high, many tomato varieties will suffer. Most will stop producing fruit in an effort of self-preservation. Pollen can be ...
20 Of The Highest Yielding Tomato Varieties
Picking the perfect tomato can be a bit of a challenge. There are, after all, over 10,000 different varieties of tomatoes! There are many criteria that you might use to choose the best tomato for ...
15 Of The Earliest Ripening Tomato Varieties (Fast Growers)
Early-ripening tomatoes, those that are the fastest-growing tomatoes, can give you tomatoes in just a little over two months. The average for fast-growing tomatoes is maturity around or under 70 days, ...