Containers are better for deterring pests, while plants in the ground will need less frequent watering. Tomatoes are a staple in nearly every vegetable garden: they’re easy to grow, provide bountiful ...

Tomatoes are a staple in many vegetable gardens, but they often require quite a bit of space to grow. So for those with limited square footage, it can often be difficult to know which variety to plant ...

Heirloom tomatoes are open-pollinated varieties which were either introduced commercially before 1940, or grown from seeds that have been passed down at least 50 years through several generations of a ...

These August afternoons, you'll find Amy Goldman out in the fields of her Hudson Valley farm, reveling in the harvest of her heirloom tomatoes. Goldman's love of the crop is no casual fling. For the ...

If you’ve ever eaten an heirloom tomato, you know there’s no going back to the assembly-line tomatoes from the grocery store. These beauties are colorful, sweet and like nothing you’ve ever seen.

You’ve probably seen gnarled, colorful tomatoes in the supermarket produce section, perhaps off-season, labeled “heirloom.” They may look enough like the real thing, but you won’t get the full story ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. The interior of Ellsworth’s shipping container Ellsworth began refining his tomato-growing technique by ...

Sybil Gorby first planted a handful of heirloom tomato seeds in 1965. Every spring since, Gorby, 92, has planted seeds from that same lineage in her garden in Tyler County, W.Va. By late June, they ...

Even when you know a thing or two about tomatoes, the wide world of the much-loved fruit is enormous — there are at least 10,000 varieties out in the world. That might seem hard to believe when you ...

It’s garden season, the best time of year. Wow your gardening friends with a wealth of knowledge about tomatoes after attending the 2019 Heirloom Tomato Festival, sponsored by the Carroll County ...