From containers to expansive garden plots, growing tomatoes is a popular and relatively easy way to harvest at least some of your own produce. In fact, tasty and easy-to-grow tomatoes are the most ...

Grocery store tomatoes can’t hold a candle to a sun-warmed, freshly-picked, homegrown ripe tomato, but growing your own tomatoes isn’t always as easy as we might like. Many diseases can affect ...

Follow this guide when buying tomato plants to ensure you get the healthiest, disease-free pick that will keep producing ...

Tomatoes are often the staple of any home vegetable garden and there are ample reasons why. The fruit (often mistakenly considered a vegetable) is tasty, relatively easy to grow and is a versatile ...

When your tomato plants aren't flowering, here's how to solve the problem so you can get fruit before summer's end. Both cold and hot temperature extremes can cause a lack of tomato flowers. Pruning, ...

Tomato plants can be susceptible to foliar leaf diseases. The key to preventing the disease is to help the plant stay as dry as possible. K-State Extension Ample rainfall this year has been a blessing ...

This news comes to us from Thomas A. Zitter, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University. Late blight is a serious disease affecting mainly tomato and potato throughout the world. It is a common ...

Warm, wet weather encourages the growth of most tomato diseases. They spread slowly in spring and early summer, and often go undetected at first. Then suddenly, by mid-July, your tomato plants look ...

I have several tomato plants in my home garden. They were all doing great, but then two of them just turned brown and died. I know it’s not a watering issue because they all get the same amount of ...

Q: When I buy a tomato plant, how can I tell if it is disease resistant? A: Capital letters listed with the name of a tomato variety indicate its resistance to a disease or pest. The letter “V” is for ...

A week ago we looked at some of the common diseases and problems which tomato growers face every year. If it isn't one of them it's another. Usually my problems start or appear about the time my ...

Q. I am having problems with some of my tomato plants. I planted them in early spring and had large, healthy plants and a good crop of tomatoes. Then, the plants started wilting back, and now they ...