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Growing Tomatoes
Seed starting, spacing, companions and pests — everything the most-grown crop in the vegetable garden asks of you.
10 posts
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The Tomato Plants You Pull This Week Decide How Next July Goes
Some of what you clear out of the garden this month carries next summer's disease back into the bed. Most of it does not. How to tell which is which.
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Green Tomatoes on the Vine? The Frost Timeline You're Ignoring
Tomatoes stop ripening once nights drop below 50°F, weeks before your actual frost date. What to pick now, how to ripen it indoors, and what to do with the rest.
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Your Tomato Plant Is Still Setting Flowers, and Every One Is a Lie
A tomato flower opening in late August will not become a tomato. Here is the math, and what pinching the tops off does for the green fruit already on the vine.
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Your Tomato Leaves Have Greasy Gray Patches. Pull the Plant Today.
Late blight is not the spotting you have been ignoring all summer. It kills a tomato plant in under a week and blows to your neighbors. How to tell, and what to do.
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The One Tomato Trick That Means You Never Buy That Seed Packet Again
How to save tomato seeds from this year's best fruit, right now, so next spring's seed order is one line shorter. A jar, some water, and four days.
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Those Brown Spots Climbing Your Tomato Plant Aren't From Watering
Yellow, spotted lower tomato leaves in late summer usually get blamed on watering. It's almost always early blight, and it climbs fast once it starts.
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This Common Watering Mistake Is Splitting Your Tomatoes
A dry spell followed by a heavy rain is the classic setup for cracked tomatoes. The fix isn't about the storm, it's about the week before it.
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How to Get Rid of Tomato Hornworms Naturally
I've never spotted a hornworm before I spotted its droppings. The trick that finds them in ten seconds, and why you should check one's back first.
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Companion Planting for Tomatoes: What to Plant (and Avoid)
Most companion planting advice is folklore. What holds up, what doesn't, and the pairings that genuinely shouldn't share a bed with your tomatoes.
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When to Start Tomato Seeds Indoors (by Frost Date)
Start tomato seeds 6 to 8 weeks before your last frost, and not a day earlier. Starting too soon is the most common way to ruin a tomato season.
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