Choosing the Right Tomato Plants

Selecting Tomatoes As far as tomato variety goes, your choices are endless. Your local nursery will stock tomato transplants that suit your climate. Choose dark green stocky plants with no blooms and no holes in the leaves. The ideal plant should be as wide as it is tall. Avoid the tall spindly plants. They are available in a myriad of sizes, shapes and colors. The key to a triumphant tomato garden is choosing the right type of plant. Determinate (bush) vs. Indeterminate (vine) D

Choosing the Right Tomato Plants

Selecting Tomatoes As far as tomato variety goes, your choices are endless. Your local nursery will stock tomato transplants that suit your climate. Choose dark green stocky plants with no blooms and no holes in the leaves. The ideal plant should be as wide as it is tall. Avoid the tall spindly plants. They are available in a myriad of sizes, shapes and colors. The key to a triumphant tomato garden is choosing the right type of plant. Determinate (bush) vs. Indeterminate (vine) D

Choosing the Right Tomato Plants

Tomato Selection Tomato varieties are as vast and many as there are stars in the sky. Your nursery should sell those plants which perform best in your area. Be sure to select the dark green plants which are shorter with the thickest stems, with no holes in the leaves. Stay away from plants that are tall and thin. Tomato plants come in a vast array of sizes, shapes and colors. Selecting the best plants to grow is vital to a healthy tomato garden. Indeterminate vs. Determinate Indetermina

Choosing the Best Tomato Plants

Tomato Selection Tomato varieties are as vast and many as there are stars in the sky. Your nursery should sell those plants which perform best in your area. Be sure to select the dark green plants which are shorter with the thickest stems, with no holes in the leaves. Stay away from plants that are tall and thin. Tomato plants come in a vast array of sizes, shapes and colors. Selecting the best plants to grow is vital to a healthy tomato garden. Determinate (bush) vs. Indeterminate (vine

Epsom Salts and Dry Milk in the Garden

My friend Edna shared with me her secret for growing tomatoes: Epsom salts and dry milk. The mixture is blended together and applied by the teaspoonful to newly transplanted tomato plants, and can be sprinkled on the soil at the base of the plants later in the season.Hm, thought I. Maybe I should give this a try.So last year I got out my carton of Epsom salts and my packets of dry milk and

A Brief Thought About Home

From Marilynne Robinson’s beautiful book, Home : And here is the world, she thought, just as we left it. A hot white sky and a soft wind, a murmur among the trees, the treble rasp of a few cicadas. There were acorns in the road, some of them broken by passing cars. Chrysanthemums were coming into bloom. Yellowing squash vines swamped the vegetable gardens and tomato plants hung from their stakes, depleted with bearing. Another summer in Gilead. Gilead, dreaming out its curse of sameness, som

Growing Tomatoes. Finding Joy in the Journey.

2009 is officially the Year of the Garden (2010 is the Year of the Laying Hen, but that’s for another day). Of all the plants we set to nurture and grow, the ones I looked forward to the most were the tomato plants. Had I known that I would start the Tomato Journey the weekend after Mother’s Day, and only a few weeks ago actually enjoy the fruit (or vegetable? it’s debated often) of my labors…I may have never started in the first place. It is inevitably harder to do something where the frui

Raised Bed Tomato Garden

Raised Bed Gardens This spring I built several wooden raised bed vegetable gardens so we could finally start growing some of our own vegetables. Raised bed vegetable gardens offer several benefits including better drainage and better access for weeding and harvesting the vegetables. Tomatoes In Raised Bed Gardens Our tomato plants are growing very well in the raised bed vegetable gardens. As you can see in the photo we planted six tomato plants and they are over 3 feet tall. There are

Never Pay For Pesticde Infested Tomatoes Again!

Never Pay For Pesticde Infested Tomatoes Again!Think about all the tomatoes you use in a year. Tomatoes are used in just about every dish it seems. Salads, casseroles, spaghetti! You can make a ton of things with tomatoes. Now think about never having to pay for another pesticide infested tomato or processed tomato paste again! Fresh tomatoes could be as close as your living room! Get some tips on growing your own tomatoes from these great lenses: How Much Sun Do Tomato Plants Need?How Often Sh

10 Tips For Growing Great Tomatoes

One of the true joys of Summer gardening (and Summer farmers markets, for that matter) are just-picked, juicy tomatoes. Luckily, you can grow tomatoes in containers, so even the smallest patio garden can benefit from a delicious tomato plant. There are some important things to consider, though. So whether you're getting a late start on a seedling or looking for some advice on tomatoes that are in your garden already, I've got some ideas to keep your tomato plants healthy and productive throughou

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