Tomato blossoms turn brown and drop instead of setting fruit.
Ask Gardenerd: Tomato Blossoms Not Fruiting
A question came in from Paula about tomato blossoms not fruiting. We tackle the question with our favorite TomatoManiac, Scott Daigre.
Yvonne Savio has been gardening her entire life and she shares her best tips on today's Podcast.
Podcast: Tomato Tips with Yvonne Savio
We had to cancel all the classes at TomatoMania this year, including Yvonne Savio's talk on tomato transplanting. But we recorded an podcast with her this week over the phone to bring you some great tomato tips in time for spring planting
Find Cool Tomatoes in our latest YouTube video.
YouTube: Cool Tomatoes to Grow in 2020
We take a tour of TomatoMania at Tapia Brothers Farm Stand in Encino, CA this week for a look at the most beautiful, coolest tomatoes to grow in 2020. It's like choosing a favorite child, but you know you have one. Maybe these will enter your good graces in the coming season.
Prune dead and diseased tomato foliage
Ask Gardenerd: Lumpy Tomato Roots, Root Nematodes
A timely question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week from Catherine: "My garden went gangbusters this year but I noticed...the roots of all plants (4 tomatoes and 2 cucumber…
Pomodorino del Piennolo del Vesuvio (hanging bundles of southern Italian tomatoes) on display.
Throw a Tomato Tasting Party!
I recently attended the Ocean View Farms tomato tasting celebration 2019 and ate my way through more than 70 varieties of tomatoes to help determine the best of the best.
Ms. Tomato poses with Christy at TomatoMania 2019 at Descanso Gardens.
YouTube: Choose the Right Tomato – TomatoMania Walk-Through
Our latest YouTube video was shot at a TomatoMania event at Descanso Gardens. Christy browses more than 200 varieties of tomato plants to suggests some of her favorites for this year's garden.
A bounty of tomatoes including Michael Pollen (green pear), Roman Candle (yellow roma), Sunrise Bumble Bee (striped cherry), and Green Cherokee (green beefsteak).
Things to Do with Tomatoes
If we're lucky as gardeners, we arrive at mid-summer with a burden of "too many" tomatoes. There is no such thing, really, but there is an urgency about what to…
Beige-white patches on tomatoes means sun scald.
Ask Gardenerd: Tomatoes with Heat Damage
Temperatures hit 116° F in some Southern California gardens this week, causing heat damage to many crops. This question from Mary is timely: "My tomatoes are getting heat stroke! I'm…
Kellogg's Breakfast Tomato
I Want Those “Heirloom” Tomatoes
When I ask clients "What type of tomatoes do you want to grow?" the answer I expect to hear is "cherry", "plum", "paste", "slicing" or "beefsteak". Instead, most often the…
Green and partly green tomatoes can be ripened easily.
Ripening Green Tomatoes
When a client mentioned that she still has a ton of green tomatoes on her plants, but needs to pull them to make room for fall crops, it occurred to…