You want to grow big, healthy tomatoes but don’t know how to get started. The tomatoes are erratic, and most gardeners struggle to get them to grow big and healthy. One minute they’re doing great and the next, they’re wilting and producing no fruit. Using fertilizer is one of the best ways to ensure your…
Pruning tomato plants involve removing stems and leaves from a tomato plant in order to focus the plant’s energy on growing fruit. Pruning also helps to prevent diseases by removing infected or damaged leaves and stems. When pruning, it is essential to remove only the leaves and extra stems that are necessary. Removing too many…
To grow the healthiest and flavour-rich tomatoes, you must take into consideration the tomato plant spacing at the very beginning. It is very tempting to plant your tomato plants very close to each other but this may lead to serious problems. Even though there’s no consensus on how far apart to plant tomatoes (due to…
A not so commonly known fact about tomato ripening is that they ripen from the inside out. What this means is that if your tomato is ripe on the outside, it’s pretty much guaranteed to ripen on the inside as well. But how to when to pick tomatoes? You’d be forgiven to think that once…
We all love homegrown tomatoes. Store-bought tomatoes don’t even come close to what a homegrown one tastes like. However, not everyone lives in a house with a big yard or a garden to grow them in. So, growing tomatoes in pots, buckets, or containers to the rescue. That’s right, you can quickly learn how to…
If you’re growing tomatoes regardless if it’s in pots, a garden, or raised beds, one of the most common problems you’d encounter is tomato leaves curling. It’s one of the tomato diseases that you might experience. In some cases, the leaf curl is nothing to be concerned about, however, there are a few cases that…