Growing your own tomatoes at home can be very rewarding. You can use the fruits — and, yes, tomatoes are fruits — to make everything from sauce, salsa, soup, salads, and more. Tomatoes are often ...

It can be difficult to determine what disease is affecting the veggies in your garden, but if you look closely, you can tell ...

Q: When can I plant winter vegetables? I would also like to plant some cool-weather flowers (pansies).

DENVER — After a rainy period, higher temperatures cause hot weather vegetables and annuals into growth spurts. Even though I'm late in planting tomatoes (due to soggy ground), they'll catch up fast ...

Cherry tomatoes will reach maturity and be ready to harvest about 50 to 65 days after they've been planted. Larger tomatoes will take slightly longer—about 75 days before they're fully mature. Full, ...

Just when I thought my volunteer cherry tomato plant would continue to thrive into its second year, it became infested with spider mites and had to be removed. Last September, it had sprouted in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With more time available for gardening in retirement, a New Brighton woman has found herself with an 8-foot-tall cherry tomato plant staking its claim in her yard, much like a ...