There are a number of ways to grow tomatoes indoors. You can start just a few for seedlings in peat pellets or pots for transplanting later, or grow a few in a mini indoor greenhouse, or just set a few by the windowsill and hope for the best. But tomatoes do have a few needs that help them grow a little better indoors. Here are a few tips for getting those tomatoes growing indoors.

After all the hard work you put into your tomato garden, the last thing you want to do is either pick tomatoes too soon or to leave them on the vine too long. Here are some tips on how to know when to pick tomatoes in your garden.

Like any crop in the vegetable garden, the never ending question is when to water tomatoes, or how much to water your tomato plants. Here's another quick overview of how to tell when tomatoes need water, and a couple of ideas on how to water them easily.

If you want to get the jump on spring and get going on early spring tomatoes, then the best time to start is in the winter months. Even before the snow melts there are things you can do to start getting ready for the last frost and getting those tomato plants out. Here's a few items to start working on ahead of spring.

Many gardeners these days are interested in using organic techniques in their garden. Many see organically grown vegetables as better overall for both your health and the health of the ecosystem. But it's not necessarily as simple as to no longer use chemicals and pesticides in your garden. Growing tomatoes organically still demands fertilization and pest control. Here's a a look at some tips to get the best organically grow tomatoes.

Here's a quick list of five tips for growing great tomatoes. Almost anyone can grow tomatoes in their garden, which helps explain why it's the most popular crop in most gardens today. Anyone who has sliced a fresh tomato for a sandwich, or sneaked a Sweet 100 tomato from the garden knows that fresh garden tomatoes are the best. Here's a list of tips for getting the best tomatoes you can from your garden.

There are a number of ways to support the growth of your tomato plants.  While cages are a popular option, another great way to keep your tomatoes off the ground and looking good is to use a trellis.  Of course with that comes the need to occasionally prune the tomatoes to make the best use of the trellis.

We want to make sure we do a proper job of fertilizing our tomatoes. Like most things in the garden, you can overdo it. Too much of the wrong types of fertilizer can either burn the plant or end up giving us all sorts of leafy growth but no fruit. Not enough and our tomato yields can suffer. Of course it's best to test the soil first and see what is actually needed. This article gives a quick overview of what's in fertilizers, and what combination can work the best in your tomato garden.

Depending on how we are growing our tomatoes, we may find that keeping them properly pruned is a key to maximizing the yield of these tomatoes.  It's often useful when growing them on tomato stakes or supports, along with in cages on on trellises if you want to keep them under control but still yielding the most in total tomatoes for your harvest.

One question that comes up in most gardens is when to water the garden.  While the answer will differ when you are watering container grown tomatoes, especially those growing in hanging tomato planters, or upside down in something like the upside down tomato garden, but there are some tips to be had.  Here's an article we found that gives a good overview of when to water your tomatoes.

One of the easiest things to do to build up your garden is to add compost to it on a regular basis.  While most gardens will have a compost bin in place somewhere, one of the easiest ways to get a large amount of compost is to simply set aside a pile for composting leaves.  The following article gives a few tips on how to easily take advantage of leaf compost to build up the soil in your garden.

There are a variety of hanging planters you can used for your tomato planting.  There are the simple bags that hang a single plant upside down like the Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter, and you can also find stands that hold more than one plant, or even a tomato garden that holds more than one tomato plant and a variety of herbs and/ or flowers as well.  Most of these can be put on a patio or balcony so that almost anyone can use these to house your garden.

It's not uncommon to hear references to heirloom tomatoes.  It's easy to see that they are prized by many gardeners, but for the novice gardener the term may be confusing.  Here's a look at what makes a particular variety an heirloom tomato, and some varieties that you may want to try in your tomato garden, or even on the patio in a hanging tomato planter.