Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image credits: Unsplash Growing tomatoes for the first time carries a particular kind of anticipation. You water, you wait, you ...

You waited all year for summer to come so you could plant tomatoes. Then, you waited all summer for your tomatoes to start coming in. And now that they finally have, something's wrong: There are yucky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Tomatoes are one of the most versatile and popular plants for backyard gardens, but they can be affected by a variety ...

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There you are, enjoying a lovely stroll through your vegetable garden when something out of the ordinary catches your eye. You head over to the tomato plants that you’ve been anxiously waiting to ...

Your tomatoes are coming along beautifully — good-sized plants, nice foliage, blossoms and burgeoning fruit. Then, you see something disturbing. The developing fruit is showing brown spots on the ...

A close-up photo of a tomato with blossom-end rot showing the dark sunken patch on the fruit’s bottom. The image highlights how inconsistent watering and nutrient movement can affect otherwise healthy ...

Other than the pandemic, it seems that the main topic of discussion among the local populace has been about the persistent wet weather through July. It’s a topic that has been discussed ad nauseam, ...

With the lazy, hazy days of summer in full swing, your vegetable garden is likely in full production mode. Tomatoes should be producing lots of blossoms by now with the earlier varieties offering ...

My tomatoes are getting a large dark spot on the bottom as they ripen. What causes this, and what can I do? It makes them worthless. Your tomatoes are suffering from blossom end rot, a metabolic ...