tomato tips
One of the ways to get a early start on tomatoes is to use a cold frame. This traditional standby is a variation on a raised bed garden, where there is a cover to add protection from the cold temperatures for tender plants like tomatoes. Here's a look at how you can use a cold frame for starting your tomatoes.
There is a a lot of attention these days by tomato gardeners on heirloom tomatoes. Many consider them to have superior taste to some of the more recent hybrids, and one of the most popular heirloom
Title: The Biggest Tomato Fight in the World
Author: Alan Liptrot
Article: If throwing squashed tomatoes turns you on, I know just the place for you. Bunyol, near Valencia hosts its annual 'La Tomatina' festival, and it has to be the biggest Tomato fight in the world. The festivities begin early in the week, but the main event occurs on the last Wednesday of August around 12 O'clock. High noon in a Valencian village; I can just imagine Gary Cooper walking through the town square with his tomatoes cocked.
Once you've put in all the effort to grow your tomatoes, most gardeners don't want to let the plants just sprawl all over the garden. Growing tomatoes need support, and you can either buy tomato cages, or you can invest in making tomato cages. Here's a few tips on how to make your own tomato cages and supports.
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.
At some point we all run into problems with our tomatoes. The key to dealing with them is often taking a proactive stance and making sure we don't encourage the conditions that bring on disease and tomato pests. But if we do get tomato problems, if we aren't careful to diagnose them properly, we may find the solution we prefer is ineffective until we come up with the proper diagnosis. This article goes into more detail on the diagnosis of tomato problems and pests like fungus and spider mites.