Keep garden-fresh tomatoes close at hand this season. Grow one or more in containers on your patio, balcony, or front steps. Any tomato can be grown in a pot, but determinate varieties are smaller and ...

Marigolds are the best flowers to plant with your tomatoes. Not only are marigolds bright and bountiful, but they also offer multiple benefits to tomato plants. Let me explain why you should grow ...

Most tomato plants are grown for a single year, making fall or winter the end of the road. But before you put your tomato ...

March is when we begin to plant our spring vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, snap beans, squash and cucumbers. These vegetables like warm temperatures and cannot tolerate freezes. Although one or ...

This weekend brings us threateningly close to the Harrisburg area’s generally accepted “safe planting time.” This is the point in the growing season where it would take a record-setting late frost to ...

If you are like me, you are scrambling to obtain the right tomato selections to plant in the garden or in containers to ride out this heat and produce fruit before cold weather arrives. If the cold ...

Every gardener has likely had a fail of some sort when growing tomatoes. These abundant growing vegetables (or fruit?) produce at such rapid speeds that planting them too close together is asking for ...

There's perhaps no better flavor on earth than a homegrown tomato picked at its peak (hello, tomato sandwich season). From little Sungolds to giant Beefsteaks, it's pretty easy to grow tomatoes in ...