For those wishing to give their tomato plants a fighting chance, there are measures that can be taken to provide them with a strong start. Cultivating disease-resistant tomato varieties ...

Recently, I was visiting my sister at Wrightsville Beach and we were invited to a tomato ... citrus plants. This method of grafting annuals was something that intrigued and fascinated me.

Tomato plants are nearing the end of their growing season and there will be lots of ripe fruit ready to be harvested, but there is one simple job which can result in bigger crop yields.

A quarter of a million plants were put inside the ‘tomato kingdom’ between Great Blakenham and Bramford, near Ipswich, back in December. Now the first ever baby tomatoes to be grown at ...

Tomatoes are a hit with home gardeners for their ease of growing, but the trick to harvesting plumper and more succulent tomatoes lies in using the right fertiliser. Potassium is the magic ...

This timeline allows them to "grow strong, provide near-endless fruit and ripen properly." But, he warns, gardeners need to be thoughtful about where they plant their tomatoes. Some neighbouring ...

Growing tomatoes is the ultimate act of garden long term love. The amount of time it takes to choose the variety, germinate it, nurture it through the seedling process, plant it correctly ...

I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the tomatoes don't look good.

some cheap imported tomatoes are grown under polytunnels, picked under-ripe, then artificially ripened with ethylene gas, a plant hormone. Sun-warmed tomatoes picked straight from the vine are ...

skills to investigate when it all goes wrong. I realized early on that the tomato plants were simply not growing the way they usually did. I asked around and others seemed to have similar issues.

Italian tomato purée is the most acclaimed variety. For the best flavour, buy tomato purée in jars rather than cans or tubes. There is also a ‘double concentrated’ version of purée ...