Tomato gardeners are always on the lookout for ways to improve tomato plant yield. Actually invented here in the US, it's still a great way to create an intensive tomato garden. Here's a look at this classic technique to increase tomato plant yields.

When you start to grow tomatoes in your garden or even grow tomatoes in pots, you may want to try something a little different. Growing heirloom tomatoes will typically not only give you a variety of tomatoes that you don't see in the store every day, but you can harvest not only the tomatoes but the seeds as well, so you have invested in something that will produce for years. With that in mind, here are some tips on how to grow heirloom tomatoes.

One of the first things to do when starting a new garden, and probably every spring is to do a soil check. One of the most important things to check after nutrient levels is the soil pH. Here's a good article that discusses exactly what soil pH is, and more importantly, how to correct the soil pH in your yard. For those interested in growing tomatoes, the soil pH you'd like to get to is around 6.0 to 6.5.

When you have good luck with starting your tomato seedlings indoors, they may get too big for the starter tray before it gets warm enough to put them out. The best solution to this is to transplant your tomato plants into peat pots. Here's a simple procedure to safely transplant your tomatoes.

We are all looking for ways to extend the growing season for our tomatoes. We can never seem to get them out early enough, and at the end of the season we always want to get just a few more weeks out of the tomatoes before we give up and pick the remaining crop for our green tomato recipes. Here's a look at some things to look for in the pots or containers we use for growing tomatoes in containers.

There are a mind numbing variety of tomato breeds out there. Which tomato varieties will work the best for your garden? Here's a quick overview of what the different classes of tomatoes are, and a few suggestions for your garden.  And it's not just the old standby varieties.

In our zeal to get those early spring tomatoes out, one of the best things we can do is start our own tomato seedlings at home.  Once we've gotten them to start, we may want to move them to something larger to keep them growing well and to help harden them off.  This article gives some pointers on successfully transplanting tomatoes to peat pots to give them room to grow.

One job in the garden that sometimes seems like a lot of work is pruning and staking the tomatoes. But it's generally accepted that these practices will increase yield more fruit that if the tomato plants are left to sprawl around the garden. Here's a look at the advantages of pruning and staking tomatoes.