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Learn how to grow better tomatoes by avoiding common mistakes, choosing the right containers, and watering consistently.

Growing tomatoes in containers can be incredibly rewarding or flat-out disastrous. Sometimes epic failures can happen for reasons beyond your control like tomato blight or a ridiculously wet or cold ...

Whether you’re trying to make the most of a balcony or patio, or you’re hoping to grow a small kitchen garden right outside ...

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Colleen Vanderlinden is a writer and gardening expert from Detroit, MI. She is the author of two books, including “Edible Gardening for the Midwest.” These bright orange cherry tomatoes have an ...

If any vegetable is worth growing at home, it is the tomato. Most store-bought varieties are selected for traits like durability, productivity, disease-resistance, uniformity, and roundness, but not ...

Homegrown tomatoes warm the hearts of folks with land or without. Those of us with limited real estate for cultivating often plant in pots and may believe we are limited in the varieties that take to ...

A. While there are many benefits to growing in containers, the biggest drawback is water retention. A tomato planted in the ground, or even in a raised bed, has the luxury of spreading its roots far ...

When it comes to weather, this has been a really tough growing season. Growing tomatoes in a container in 90-plus degree weather is not easy. I’ve had to water my pot of tomats twice a day to keep ...