The tomato has many claims to fame. A fruit used as a vegetable, it’s the first ingredient in cans of Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli and the reason soggy school cafeteria pizza slathered in sauce is ...

The backyard garden revolution is underway, and it’s sprouting in the most unexpected place: your seed packet. Gardeners ...

If you peruse a seed catalog, especially one geared toward heirloom vegetables, you’ll quickly realize that the selection of tomato transplants in nurseries pales in comparison to the variety of seed ...

For gardeners who start their own tomato plants, March is time to get busy. There are several good reasons for starting tomatoes from seed: Economy: You can grow a lot more tomatoes from seed for the ...

When the gardening season is in full swing, there is nothing we enjoy more than planting a new crop of cherry tomatoes. The easiest of all tomatoes to grow, cherry tomatoes come in a rainbow of colors ...

Sybil Gorby first planted a handful of heirloom tomato seeds in 1965. Every spring since, Gorby, 92, has planted seeds from that same lineage in her garden in Tyler County, W.Va. By late June, they ...

Since tomatoes are plants that need warmth to germinate and a long warm growing season to fruit they need to be started indoors. New Jersey summers are too short for them to successfully set fruit ...

You’ll want to avoid hybrids, which won’t reproduce true from saved seeds. To ensure purity, choose an heirloom variety that’s planted at least 10 feet away from other varieties. Ideally, you’d choose ...

Seeds from the UC82B tomato have been found to contain a commercially approved biotech trait. The University of California, Davis, is recalling about 30 tomato seed samples, distributed during the ...

UConn Home and Garden Education Center alum Carol Quish wrote a short blog post about vivipary in 2014 that, over a decade later, is still one of our most-read pieces. Why are folks still interested ...