Harvesting and drying your backyard pot plants doesn't need to be complicated. Here are four easy pointers to help you ...

However, there's a way out: Simply grow your tomato plants upside down in hanging containers. This means you sow the seedlings in the pot but then invert its position. So, the plant's roots are at the ...

When tomatoes are starved of nutrition, the fruits just won't grow well enough ... to tell if your plant needs water...? Just kick the pot. If it doesn't move, it doesn't need water.

Tomato season is coming to an end and it's almost time to harvest, but the erratic summer weather we've experienced has ...

When roots come through the drainage holes put into a 12.5cm (5in) pot. Unless you're growing a bush tomato, the aim is to create a single-stemmed plant. To do this, snap out shoots that grow in ...

If you grow your own tomatoes ... Pour this into the pot with the tomatoes and turn the heat to medium. Stir often until it boils, then reduce the heat to low. Don’t cover as you want the ...

We are in full fall swing with back-to-school rhythms for our little one, and we’re getting into a routine. I’ve been trying ...

Fruit fly and wet humid weather (which causes disease) makes growing tomatoes more difficult in ... warm spot until their roots have filled the pot. Don’t overwater them – they’re very ...

Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin gives advice about gardening in Florida including dollarweed, tomatoes, basketgrass, avocado trees ...

Whether you’re growing your own ... to produce about 4 cups medium-thick sauce. Remove pot from heat and add the reserved 1 cup tomato purée and remaining 2 tablespoons butter.

Dump the remaining contents in a pot and cook away. Does it make me a bad person if upon doing the above, I smile a little all-knowing smile to myself, that I’m enjoying great midwinter tomato ...

Pot them into their final container - a 5-litre pot will do. As the plants grow, swap the small stakes ... a liquid feed high in potash, such as tomato fertiliser. Fruits can be harvested with ...