The best time to start planting tomato seeds is late spring, when the frost has gone and the soil is starting to warm up. So, by summer, you'll be enjoying the fruits of your labor as your first crop ...

Avoid overwatering or underwatering your tomato plants with these tomato watering tips. Tomatoes are relatively easy to grow, but they need just the right amount of water to thrive. They generally ...

Have you ever bit into a store-bought tomato and tasted…nothing? Some remedies: buy tomatoes at the farmer’s market (which can get expensive) or grow your own. Sure, there are a lot of excuses people ...

SEATTLE — Ciscoe says there are some tricks to growing tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest, and the main one is to avoid this common pitfall: "Sometimes people make a few mistakes - and the biggest one ...

Since April, readers have been asking why their tomato plants looked so funky. Seriously, people! Tomatoes are heat-loving tropical plants. If you haven’t planted tomatoes yet, it’s not too late; they ...

Most gardeners who grow robust tomato plants with abundant, healthy fruit know the importance of mulching. Applying a layer of mulch around plants can keep the soil cool in summer and warmer in spring ...

As April showers give way to sunnier May days, we Oregon gardeners eagerly awaiting the right conditions for spring planting can’t help but ask: Are we there yet? The answer is never so simple as ...