Growing tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) indoors may sound easy, but many gardeners find it to be a difficult undertaking because of the different growing conditions and extra maintenance. Soil ...

Even if you love the shifting colors of autumn and frosty winter mornings, you have to admit that the abundance of fresh, ripe produce in summer is one of the best parts of the season. When the cold ...

Recommended varieties: Early-season tomatoes such as ‘Bush Beefsteak’, ‘Celebrity’, and ‘Early Girl’ are ready for harvest 70 ...

Most home cooks think that the only way to get two tomatoes for the price of one is through a "buy one, get one free" sale. However, if you have some soil, plastic wrap, and a tray with drainage holes ...

Have you ever bit into a store-bought tomato and tasted…nothing? Some remedies: buy tomatoes at the farmer’s market (which can get expensive) or grow your own. Sure, there are a lot of excuses people ...

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Tomatoes are finicky plants that want the temperature to hover around 85 degrees, which doesn’t happen much in Central Oregon. Nights can bring frost even in August, while summer temperatures ...

Starting seeds too early indoors results in leggy, stunted, rootbound, or otherwise stressed seedlings. If you started seedlings too early indoors, do not plant them outdoors before the recommended ...

The summer is nearly over, and I still haven’t picked any of the large tomatoes that I painstakingly started indoors and nurtured in the early spring. Meanwhile, the “wild” cherry tomatoes that reseed ...