Growing your own tomatoes at home makes a big difference when it comes to flavor. There’s nothing quite like pulling a fresh tomato off the vine when it’s fully ripe, juicy and warmed by the sun.

Tomato plants need three main nutrients from fertilizer—nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium—as well as some other trace elements. Most fertilizers are a combination of those three components; the ...

The best fertilizer for tomato plants contains a mix of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, or what’s known as NPK. These macronutrients are listed on every fertilizer container, usually in ...

Potassium is a common need for plants, and if you enjoy eating bananas, you already have a great source of this nutrient that ...

The tomato plant is an annual plant and like many other annuals needs a lot of nutrients to grow healthy fruits and produce a ...

Tomatoes are the top greenhouse vegetable crop in Canada, with a value of nearly $372 million in 2008. The size of the market makes tomatoes an attractive choice for organic producers. Yet there are ...