I always look forward to gardening in the spring because I know I will no longer have to rely on supermarkets for a tasteless, mushy tomato on my sandwich. The tomato plant is one of the most popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) are beloved by gardeners, with over 10,000 possible types to grow. These leafy annuals grow ...

September, with its beautiful clear skies and almost sweater weather, signals the beginning of the end to some summer plants. However, tomatoes still have a few good weeks left. Often the green ones ...

Vegetable plants can be either heirloom or hybrid. During the gardening season, we often hear about heirloom vegetables, and many of the tomatoes and peppers we personally buy are heirloom varieties.

The tomato might just be the quintessential summer produce. It’s the first thing many new gardeners want to plant, and some growers spend decades trying to perfect it. It’s a staple in cuisines around ...

Of all the vegetables, tomatoes are certainly one of the most popular, so if you enjoy growing them, this article is for you. Growing vegetables here in central Florida is quite different than how ...

Some farmers market agriculture vendors grow a variety of plants, while other focus on one thing in particular. For Diane and Thomas Osso’s business Coltivare, that one thing is heirloom tomatoes.

When the Heirloom Tomato Festival in Carroll County was first organized by Master Gardeners in 2003, only 12 people attended. This year, the group expects more than 650 participants to swing by the ...

From seed catalogs and roadside stands to menus, we often see the phrase “heirloom tomato.” Let’s look at what the term heirloom means, and the differences between heirloom and hybrid tomatoes.

Springing from carefully planted and cultivated seeds, heirloom tomatoes are all born from the bloom in nearly the same shade, a typical light green. They grow into many colors, shapes and sizes as ...

Growing season is upon us, and there's nothing that says summer like biting into a ripe, succulent home-grown tomato. This year, I've decided to explore what it's like to grow heirloom tomatoes, so I ...

If you've got some spare grocery store tomatoes lying around at home, you could turn them into a tasty marinara sauce — but one less obvious idea is that you can actually plant them and grow more ...