There are so many things to consider when growing your tomatoes. From diseases like early blight and Septoria leaf spot to a plethora of pests, including dreaded aphids - the potential concerns may ...
8 Bugs You Want To See On Your Tomato Plants
Gardeners often focus on the damaging pests that attack and kill tomatoes. Understandably so, as they can destroy not just tomatoes, but your entire garden. However, not all bugs are bad. ...
3 Things Aspirin Does For Tomato Plants (& 3 Things It Won’t Do)
Problems with your tomato plants giving you a headache? Aspirin may be the cure for your headache problems, and your tomato plant problems too. This may be one of the lesser-known common gardening ...
How To Get Rid of Aphids on Tomato Plants
Ah, aphids. We all know them, and we all dread them. These tiny bugs can cause massive damage to many garden plants – especially tomatoes. Tomato blooms attract aphids to your garden, and they even ...
How & When To Pick Tomatoes (Probably Not When You Think)
You’ve overcome several obstacles facing your tomato plant. Warded off pests, controlled diseases, ensured a steady supply of water, pruned correctly, fertilized, supported and much more. Now, ...
7 Secrets To Get More Tomatoes From Every Single Plant
You know that veggie gardener who is overwhelmed with massive quantities of tomatoes throughout the summer? Their hands are slightly stained. Not only do they smell delicious, like an old favorite ...
Tomato Plant Not Flowering? 5 Causes & How To Fix It
Your tomatoes are planted. You have cared for them for weeks, months on end. Now, you can’t wait to pick the delicious red fruits from your masterpiece. But, the flowers you were waiting so ...
Black Spots On Tomato Leaves – Dealing With Septoria Leaf Spot
One of the most common (and destructive) fungal diseases that affect tomatoes is the dreaded Septoria leaf spot. Beginning on leaves closest to the ground, the first sign – evident in the name – ...
4 Ways To Get More Of Your Tomato Flowers To Set Fruit
Peeking out of the leaves of your bushy tomato plant, you notice a tiny yellow flower. The excitement sets in. So you wait for your first fruit. And keep waiting. But those tiny yellow blossoms ...
4 Reasons Your Tomatoes Aren’t Ripening & What To Do About It
The effort you put into tomato growing over the season – planting, feeding, mulching, watering – all lead up to one moment: picking your first tomato. When you see the first green fruits form ...
5 Common Tomato Stem Problems & How To Fix Them
The unfortunate fact of tomato growing is that most gardeners will face a tomato plant problem at some point in the season. Problems are normally identified by the look of the plant – wilting ...
Green Shoulders – Why Won’t The Tops Of My Tomatoes Ripen?
There is nothing more frustrating than waiting in anticipation for your tomato harvest, only to be faced with a daunting green or yellow crown that stubbornly refuses to ripen. This greenish or ...
10 Tomato Pests That Will Destroy Your Tomato Plants
Pests and diseases are tough challenges every home gardener faces. Unfortunately for tomato growers, tomatoes are susceptible to a large variety of both. When it comes to pests, matters are only ...
Tomato Suckers: What Should You Really Do With Them?
To prune, or not to prune? That is the question. Like many gardening tips on the internet, there is a heated debate around tomato suckers. Should you keep them? Should you get rid of them? What ...
How To Fertilize Tomato Plants For Your Best Harvest Ever
Ask any gardener what their secret to great tomatoes is, and many will say fertilizing. Not just any old fertilizing routine. A routine that gives the plants exactly what they need at the right ...
Plant Tomatoes Deep – The Secret To Your Best Harvest Ever
You’ve probably come across the common gardening advice arguing that planting tomatoes deeply is an absolute must. It seems to go against all gardening instincts – especially when proponents recommend ...
5 Things To Put In Your Tomato Planting Hole (& 5 Things You Shouldn’t)
The internet is full of too-good-to-be-true gardening myths. Nowhere is that more evident than in the wild and completely unbelievable answers to the common question, what should I put in my tomato ...
Why Are My Tomato Leaves Curling? 7 Causes & How To Fix Them
Of the several problems that may present themselves in tomato plants, leaf curl is one of the most common. This condition, also called leaf roll, worries many new tomato gardeners. But fear not – ...
8 Steps To Transplant Tomato Plants The Right Way
Green side up! Okay, there is a little more to it than that. Luckily, tomatoes are incredibly forgiving and resilient plants that tolerate many growing conditions. You may get large plants and a ...
9 Reasons For Wilting Tomato Plants & How To Fix It
You walk out into your garden in the morning, ready to water your tomato plants, only to find them hunched over, limp, and lifeless. The leaves drooped, the stalks lost all their vigor. Your tomato ...
How To Grow Tomatoes In Small Spaces & 5 Best Varieties To Try
Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables grown by experienced gardeners and newbies alike. Unfortunately, they also tend to take up a lot of space – space that many gardeners just don’t have. ...
Are Coffee Grounds Good For Tomato Plants? Err, Probably Not!
Coffee grounds are recommended by gardeners worldwide for a range of gardening ills. From fertilizing, to mulch, to pest control – it seems there’s nothing a spoon of used coffee grounds can’t do. ...
7 Reasons Your Tomato Leaves Are Turning Yellow & How To Fix It
Yellowing leaves tend to induce panic in tomato gardeners. A plant previously in good health turning from green to yellow causes alarm and results in frantic fixes that may do more harm than ...
Watering Tomato Plants – How To, How Often & How Much
To grow successful tomato plants, watering correctly is essential. Unfortunately, it is also one of the practices many gardeners get wrong. Best case scenario, underwater and you deprive the ...