Harvest salad, paste, slicing, and heirloom tomatoes at the perfect time with these simple tips. The first ripe tomato—no matter how small—is the official sign of summer for many gardeners. Whether it ...

It’s time — or getting to be time — for us gardeners to reap what we’ve sown. Although it’s fairly evident when some edibles, like tomatoes, are ripe for the picking (uniform red, yellow or orange ...

As soon as the last container of Christmas decorations is tucked away, I'm ready to start my tomato seeds. Then come the days of watching sets of leaflets form and slowly moving the seedlings to ...

DON’T REFRIGERATE The way tomatoes look — round and taut or amoebic and ridged — doesn’t correlate with their flavor. “They’re one of the trickiest crops because it’s hard to tell which are good,” ...

So, how did your garden grow? It was quite a year weatherwise, complete with plenty of heat and rain with a pleasantly surprising cool spell here and there. If you are rolling in tomatoes right now, I ...