The holy grail of home horticulture is learning how to grow the perfect tomato crop just steps from your kitchen counter. It gives you the ability to act on a fleeting inspiration for a fresh caprese ...

Growing vegetable plants can be challenging in containers. But, if you live in a place without a garden, it might be your only option. The tomato is one plant that struggles to thrive in a container ...

You don’t need a yard or garden space to enjoy delicious homegrown tomatoes. Tomatoes are not only one of the most popular ...

Hands picking tomatoes from container-grown plants - Dmitrii Marchenko/Getty Images Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are said to be among some of the easiest types of plants you can grow in a home ...

March is when we begin to plant our spring vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, snap beans, squash and cucumbers. These vegetables like warm temperatures and cannot tolerate freezes. Although one or ...

You can enjoy homegrown tomatoes even if you have room for only one container. One great advantage of container growing is that you move the containers to keep them in the sun. A container that is at ...

Spring is imminent, so it is time to be planning your summer garden. Napa County Master Gardeners will be offering a large variety of organic tomato seedlings for ...

While building a sandwich, have you ever thought to yourself, "Wouldn't it be nice if I could just pluck my own tomatoes off the vine to slice up and pile on this, Ina Garten-style?" Well, the process ...

The tomato is the No. 1 vegetable in our gardens. It’s the highest yielded and consumed in snacking, salads, canning, salsa, drying and bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwiches. I relish that first tomato ...

If you crave the taste of luscious, homegrown tomatoes but don’t have the space to manage a full-sized garden, then container gardening might be just the thing for you. Tomatoes are the home ...