One of the special joys of home vegetable gardening is harvesting vine-ripened tomatoes. Many gardeners have planted their ...

To determine your last frost date, consult a local gardening center or your state’s agricultural extension service. It’s ...

Tomato hornworms can be extremely destructive to tomatoes, eggplants, and pepper plants, especially when the plants are young ...

Tomato plants can be hugely rewarding to grow. If you choose the right variety, you can get plants that will grow tall and provide a consistent harvest throughout the summer months. When you get ...

Selecting disease-resistant varieties, spacing tomato plants properly, using mulch, and watering at least 1 inch per week are some of the most important actions to keep your tomato plants disease-free ...

Tomato leaves curling signal stressors that could impact your harvest – and kill plants. Find out which cause is behind your ...

Tomatoes are the quintessential summer garden crop, but they’re not always simple to grow. In fact, by this point in the growing season, even the most experienced gardener may be having problems.

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how to grow better tomatoes by avoiding common mistakes, choosing the right containers, and watering consistently.

As lettuce plants fade, tomatoes can be planted between the rows. The lettuce serves as living mulch, helping to retain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gardener pruning the water shoots that grow between the stems and twigs of the tomato plant - johan kusuma/Shutterstock You've ...