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Video: Early Pruning of Tomato Plants
2 commentsTomatoes are surprisingly easy to maintain. Once your young tomato plants start to grow, they will need some initial pruning. Here's how to ensure that your plants remain healthy and produce delicious fruit.
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Video: How to Prune Tomatoes
2 commentsLee Reich, author of "The Pruning Book," shows you how to prune a tomato plant to keep it healthy and producing better fruit.
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Video: How to Plant Tomatoes
Tomatoes like to be planted very deeply. Deep planting helps to ensure that your plants will grow to be healthy and robust.If your plant came in a peat pot, make sure you remove all of the pot before...
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Tomato Trivia, Your Health, And George Clooney
It just so happens, by happy coincidence, all three of these topics actually intersect; at least in this post.
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Tomato hornworm with braconid wasp larvae
Here's a photo I took of a tomato hornworm acting as a host for braconid wasp larvae. Fun running into this guy first thing in the morning, without even a cup of coffee!
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La Tomatina: A Food Fight with a Cast of Thousands
At La Tomatina in the Spanish town of Buñol, festival-goers pelt each other with tomatoes in the greatest food fight of them all.
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When Blight Wipes Out Your Tomatoes, Eat Beans
Like investors, gardeners should diversify their portfolios. So when the tomato "market" crashes, you will still have something fresh to eat.
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Growing Tomatoes in Containers: Dangerously Delicious
Tomatoes are so delicious and so easy to work into just about every meal. I love them so much that I planted a few too many plants...and their location close to the kitchen makes it a little too easy to snap them off before they are fully ripe. But who can wait for fresh bruschetta!
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The Tomato Sandwich: Summer's Ultimate Food
13 commentsWhat's better than garden-fresh tomatoes on sandwich bread slathered in mayonnaise?
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Veggies in July
1 commentIt's nearly the end of July and the vegetable garden is only just starting to bear fruit.
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Gardening Tip: Old Bedsheets Make Great Tomato Ties
2 commentsPut your tattered sheets to good use in the garden.
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Plano Victory Garden
2 commentsMy "Victory Garden" in Plano, Texas. Mostly vegies, but a few herbs and flowers are growing as well.
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Brooklyn Rooftop Container Garden
1 commentThis is my rooftop container garden in Brooklyn, NY. Right now I'm growing broccoli, eggplant, peppers and tomatoes.
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Tomato Plants - Determinate, Indeterminate and VFFNTA
Choosing tomato plants isn’t necessarily tricky. Still, most people only think of two things when they consider purchasing tomato plants for their home garden. They ask themselves what size (regular or cherry)? Next, they decide how many plants to buy and that’s it. There are a couple of other factors that may guide you in how to decide what tomato plant varieties to choose.
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The (Tomato) Stakes Are High
2 commentsSearch statistics tell us thata lot of people visit VegetableGardener.com to find plans and ideas for tomato trellises, and with good reason. Staking tomatoes is worthwhile.
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The Ultimate Tomato Trellis
Last year I watched an eye-opening video about pruning tomatoes--getting them to grow high not wide. This encourages air circulation to avoid disease. It also keeps the fruit off the ground. My...
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Video: It's Tomatomania! So Why Do You Grow Tomatoes?
3 commentsWe took a trip to the annual Tomatomania festival this weekend for a look at what's hot in heirloom tomatoes, from Matt's Wild Cherry Tomatoes (my favorite) to the Green Zebra variety. Plus, tell us why YOU grow tomatoes.
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Beyond Beefsteak Tomatoes: In Search of the Unusual
2 commentsEveryone loves beefsteaks, but they don't do all that well for me, so I usually opt for small and midsize offerings.
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