Picking tomatoes is a gardener’s delight: ripe tomatoes smell amazing and can be so inviting that you won’t be able to resist taking a bite from one straight off the vine. If you live in a warm ...

This cat might just be the world’s best garden assistant—watch him join his mom for tomato-picking duty and steal the show.

Knowing when to pick tomatoes is simple. All you have to do is wait until the fruits are fully red (or purple, or yellow, or whatever color tomatoes you’re growing). Right? Well, maybe not. Here’s ...

Many green thumbs have been nurturing summer-fruiting plants like tomatoes throughout the spring, and now it's time to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Tomatoes typically start to ripen and bear fruit ...

Tomatoes are one of the most common plants in the home garden. Learn how to tell if your tomatoes are done for the season and how to prepare for next year's crop.

A tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum) can be an attractive addition to any home garden. Both container and ground plants produce interesting green foliage of varying shapes, as well as pretty yellow ...

This time every year gardeners rush to the garden centers to pick vegetables for their spring and summer gardens. Perhaps no other vegetable receives more attention from eager gardeners than the ...

After a lovely winter break, I returned to the office with a stack of seed catalogs begging me to order more seeds. Despite having hundreds of seed packets, I find it hard to throw them away. Indeed, ...

Tomatoes need to be harvested in September as if left too long on the vine once the weather gets cold then the fruit will be damaged and unusable but there is a method to make sure they still ripen ...