Stake your tomatoes right when they're in their final position so they can settle in and spread their root system to grow taller. Choose metal or plastic stakes since they're non-slip and durable ...

Pull up cool-season annual weeds: It is very important to pull up henbit, bedstraw and chickweed now. These weeds are currently setting thousands of seeds that will plague you next winter if not ...

Late May and early June are an important period for one of home gardener’s favorite crops – tomatoes. Kansas State University horticultural expert Cynthia Domenghini said tomatoes need support to ...

Before you buy any tomato plants or seeds, you should decide whether you want to grow determinate or indeterminate tomatoes. Here's what sets them apart.

GROWING UP: Apprentices at Wild Abundance stake tomato plants to direct them up, not out. Photo courtesy of Wild Abundance Summer is here, but it barely feels like spring in many ways. We’ve had ...

A month from now, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Tomato seedlings that were planted neatly near garden stakes are already beginning to take matters into their own hands, and if allowed to grow willy ...

Have you harvested your first ripe tomato yet? Mine are still green and hard, but that hasn’t stopped me from dreaming of how delectable they’ll be when the time comes. For many gardeners, the most ...

Nothing rattles a gardener faster than spotting the first signs of blight on a tomato. The brown spots creep in, leaves start to yellow, and before you know it, the plant looks like it's waving a ...