It's about showing up, season after season, and learning as you go.There's something deeply satisfying about growing your own ...

One of my favorite summer memories growing up in the Midwest is eating delicious vine-ripened tomatoes. Absolutely delightful ...

We are hoping this will be an abundant and productive summer with swarms of these amazing insects. Verbenas produce cascading ...

Some types of tomatoes come with common problems like splitting or high susceptibility to blossom-end rot, including these varieties.

Determinate tomato plants should not be pruned, because they tend to form a compact and bushy plant. Pruning may continue weekly during the early part of the season, every two weeks later on.

Watch how you plant Many growers start tomato crops with just seeds, dirt, a feed bucket and a short cylinder of chicken wire. "I grew up like that," Peeler said. The experts recommend raised beds, ...

Nothing beats picking a fully sun-ripened tomato from a vine in your garden and biting into that juicy flesh to get a huge flavor explosion in your mouth. But, when it comes to choosing how you're ...

Here's a great tomato trick tip to growing more tomatoes by making more plants from one that has snapped off or broken. Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in se ...