Vegetables

It may have been the year I stood over chili sauce for hours, boiling it down to the proper consistency. Or maybe the year I tried to make tomato juice

When plant nutrients are in great excess or extreme deficiency, the symptoms on the foliage or in some other plant part generally reveal themselves to the naked eye. Such plants

You may be an “old hand” at raising tomatoes or an “eager beaver” who has set out his first plants this year. In either case, however, you will likely discover

When the tomato was first introduced into cultivation from South America, it was grown only as an ornamental in European and North American gardens under the name love apple. Belonging

Would you like to pick the first tomatoes from your plants 1 to 3 weeks earlier than your neighbor? Red, ripe tomatoes are meatier, firmer, larger, better colored, and better

I wonder if most of us would consider tomatoes such good eating if they ripened white instead of red? There’s something about color in vegetables and fruits that attract appetite:

The tomato stands high among those vegetables that furnish abundant food from limited space with small effort and little failure hazard. A single plant may often yield as much as

Most people familiar with growing tomato plants know about tomato cages. They come in different looks and styles and are usually made from wire. However, homemade tomato cages – “Are