Do you have healthy tomato plants but lack tomatoes on the vines? You may have heard advice from neighbors telling you to prune back the vines or to stop watering to solve the problem. Do not be ...

Is your tomato plant dropping flowers? If you’re wondering what on earth could be wrong, the good news is that tomato blossom drop is usually easy to fix. Most likely, your healthy tomato plant isn’t ...

Years ago, when my wife and I were living in our first little starter bungalow, we had just enough room by the back steps for one tomato plant. Torture for any gardener and especially one that loves ...

Question. Our tomato plants have a good crop of fruits and they are still flowering. Why aren’t more fruits forming? Answer.You probably don’t appreciate the really hot summer temperatures and neither ...

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

For this gardener, the physical act of gardening, within moments relinquishes burden of daily life and its challenges: A hectic schedule, pursuing a career, managing a farm and juggling cumbersome ...

Pennsylvania’s No. 1 home-garden vegetable crop‚ tomatoes, should be hitting peak form this week and churning out trusses full of juicy, ripe fruits. However, this long-time summer pleasure is being ...

Q. My tomato plant still has a lot of tomatoes on it, even though most of the vines were killed by frost. Would these be safe to can? Once tomatoes have been exposed to frost, their acid content drops ...

Question: Temperatures are becoming quite hot. Is it too hot for my tomatoes to set fruit? Answer: Most large-fruited tomato varieties stop setting fruits when temperatures are consistently above 85 ...

Black spots on tomato leaves are usually caused by fungal diseases like Septoria leaf spot or early blight, which thrive in warm, humid weather and can reduce yields or kill plants if untreated. Treat ...