A light-skinned hand touches a tomato plant sucker. - KieferPix/Shutterstock If you've savored a garden tomato that's warm from the sun, pause to recall its taste and texture. Your teeth pop through ...

Tomatoes are America’s favorite garden “vegetable” to grow. Botanically a fruit, the tomato was classified as a vegetable by the U.S. tariff law of 1887 because it’s served with dinner, not as dessert ...

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Pruning your tomato plants might sound like an extra gardening chore, but it’s actually the secret to bigger, tastier harvests. A little snip here and there keeps your vines healthy and focused on ...

A popular ingredient to many dinnertime favorites, there’s nothing quite like a ripe, juicy tomato that’s been freshly plucked off the vine. Growing tomatoes at home can be a fun and exciting ...

It’s that time of year again … time to plant your tomatoes and peppers and get your summer garden going. This year have the best harvest yet by learning how to prune tomatoes and peppers. You can ...

Master Gardeners spent last winter and spring growing an array of annual flowers, perennials, herbs and vegetables for their annual plant sale. On opening day, a line of early birds snaked around the ...

IT’S MID-JUNE and many vegetable gardeners have already moved on to pruning their tomato plants, instead of transplanting them. It’s far too late in the year to plant more tomato seedlings. Or is it?

Q: Can you tell me how to prune my tomato plants? I’m new to gardening. This is only my second year, and I keep reading that I need to prune my tomato plants for better tasting fruit. Is it too late ...

Tomato suckers is a term that is often thrown around by experienced gardeners but can leave a relatively new gardener scratching their head. Maybe someone told you to get rid of them ASAP. Or maybe ...

There are two ways to grow tomatoes, upright with support or sprawled on the ground. For gardens, I always recommend growing them upright. It saves space, reduces disease, and gives you more usable ...