Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

A classic A-frame wooden trellis is a simple and attractive way to support vining vegetables. To give small tendrils ...

1. Trellis your row of tomato plants while they are still small. Hammer 8-foot stakes two feet into the ground, one on each end of the row and 10 feet apart within the row. Install hardware cloth ...

Conventional gardening wisdom says you should pinch off the suckers that grow between the main tomato stem and the leaves of indeterminate (vining) tomato plants to encourage bigger fruit and more ...

I was out recently pruning my roma tomatoes, which you may recall were the only tomatoes to survive the tree squashing the garden. They are growing on a trellis that was on the end of the garden that ...

Tomatoes don’t need to cost a small fortune to grow. Garden catalogs may tempt gardeners with glossy photos, pricey seedlings ...

Nothing screams summer like a perfectly ripe, juicy, and tangy heirloom tomato. Every year I plant at least eight tomato plants in our teeny tiny backyard. Because of factors beyond our control—rain, ...