Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes

It's harvest time for tomatoes, whether they be determinate or indeterminate. These orbs of delight are the quintessential summer fruit and we're picking them daily. We planted early this year…

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07-25-13 Growing Through Summer

In this issue: July in the Garden Recipes for Summer Harvest Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Re-purposed Container Garden Gardenerd Product of the Month: Gardenerd Infant Creeper   1. July…

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Planting Tomatoes

Tomato plant sales are gearing up all across the country. Whether you visit a TomatoMania event, or a local nursery, it’s clear that tomato fever is running rampant.
In most warm climates, it’s time to put them in the ground (while coastal and cool climate folks try to restrain themselves a little longer). Here are some helpful hints for planting tomatoes
whenever you get around to doing it.

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Upside-Down Tomatoes

Recently some students in the Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series asked about growing tomatoes upside-down.  I can happily say that I’ve done that without any special equipment –
and it works! 

One year, on the patio of our apartment, my husband and I decided to take a regular hanging planter and plant a tomato in it.  Instead of staking it up, we let the vines hang
down.  It flowered, it set fruit, the fruit ripened and we ate well.  There are a couple of caveats, however, to be aware of when using a regular hanging planter:

1) The branches do bend or crease at the …

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07-09-20 Gardening Is Freedom

In this issue: July in the GardenProtecting & Harvesting Corn - YouTubeGardenerd Tip of the Month: Answers to Your QuestionsGardenerd Product of the Month: Gardening for Geeks 2020 July in…

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TomatoMania Classes Start Friday!

This year, Gardenerd is partnering with TomatoMania to present the Gardenerd Education Series. We’ve lined up great speakers who are ready to share their tomato-growing expertise.

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