Conventional gardening wisdom says you should pinch off the suckers that grow between the main tomato stem and the leaves of indeterminate (vining) tomato plants to encourage bigger fruit and more ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Jun. 5—For plants that crawl, climb and vine, a trellis is an indispensable tool for your home garden. Whether you are growing squash, peas or tomatoes, these simple structures help gardeners to save ...

Whether a tomato seedling was raised from seed or bought from a nursery, it’s as cute as the Obama family’s new puppy. If the plants stayed as darling until their fruit ripens in June and July, ...

Whether raised from seed or bought from a nursery, if tomato seedlings stayed as darling until their fruit ripens in June and July, everyone would grow them. But tomatoes are vines. The capability of ...

You’ve sowed your tomato seeds, and now the seedlings stand like little green soldiers in your window, patiently waiting to be liberated from their pots and plunked into a warm bed of earth. What they ...

TIRUPATI: Several farmers in Tirupati district are showing interest in cultivating tomato using Trellis method. Farmers have cultivated the crop in Trellis method in 150 acres of Pellakuru mandal of ...

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