A light-skinned hand touches a tomato plant sucker. - KieferPix/Shutterstock If you've savored a garden tomato that's warm from the sun, pause to recall its taste and texture. Your teeth pop through ...

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 ...

When you're growing your tomato plants during the summer, you might notice some with curling leaves. Here's why that happens and how to stop it.

IT’S MID-JUNE and many vegetable gardeners have already moved on to pruning their tomato plants, instead of transplanting them. It’s far too late in the year to plant more tomato seedlings. Or is it?

Q: Can you tell me how to prune my tomato plants? I’m new to gardening. This is only my second year, and I keep reading that I need to prune my tomato plants for better tasting fruit. Is it too late ...

Are your tomatoes splitting and cracking before you can harvest them? It's frustrating to see, but there are ways you can support your plants as they grow.

Jul. 25—The best way make a tomato plant thrive, whether beef steak or cherry, is to have consistency. "Tomatoes do like the summer months," said Elephant Rock Garden Supply Co. CFO and Product ...

Continue to remove the suckers in the leaf joints of tomato plants to keep vines upright and from sprawling. Young suckers can be pinched with the fingers, but use a sharp knife to remove suckers ...