Latest Blog Posts for The Tomato Gardener

• Growing the Tomato Plant
  on Nov 8, 2012 in Characteristics
  Growing the Tomato PlantTo manage a crop, one must needs know the plant. To know the various characters of the tomato helps one to master its culture.The tomato belongs to the night shade family, the Solanaceae of the botanist, along with...
• Using Tomato Beds With a Hairy Vetch
  on Oct 17, 2012 in Gardening
  Excerpted from the USDAThe first step toward high tomato yields is taken in early September when you prepare permanent raised tomato beds. If you're trying this method for the first time, use an inoculum to establish the proper soil bacteria.Seed the...
• Best Soil for Home Gardening
  on Jan 28, 2010 in Soil Gardening
  Of the 10 largest yields of which I have personal knowledge and which ran from 1,000 to 1,200 bushels of fruit (acceptable for canning and at least two-thirds of it of prime market quality) an acre, four were grown on soils classed as clay loam, two...
• The Lifetime of a Tomato
  on Dec 4, 2009 in Characteristics
  The tomato could be described as a short-lived perennial, but its span of life is somewhat variable. Under favorable conditions it will develop from starting seed to first ripe fruit in from 85 to 120 days of full sunshine with a constant day tempera...
• Damping Off
  on Nov 20, 2009 in Diseases
  Young plants in seed-beds often perish suddenly from a rot of the stem at the surface of the ground. This occurs as a rule in dull, cloudy weather among plants kept at too high a temperature, crowded too closely in the beds or not sufficiently ventil...
• Fruit at the Least Expenditure of Labor
  on Sep 9, 2009 in Commercial Gardening
  When this is the desire, many growers omit the hotbed and even the pricking out, sowing the seed as early as they judge the plants will be safe from frost, and broadcast, either in cold-frames or in uncovered beds, at the rate of 50 to 150 to the squ...
• Point Rot
  on Aug 28, 2009 in Diseases
  This trouble, called also "blossom-end rot," and "black-rot," occurs on the green fruit at various stages of development, as shown above. It begins at the blossom end as a sunken brown spot,which gradually enlarges until the fruit is rendered worthle...
• Tomato Plants from Cuttings
  on Aug 24, 2009 in Gardening
  Tomato plants from cuttings may be easily grown, but such plants, when planted in the open ground, do not yield as much fruit as seedlings nor is this apt to be of so good quality; so that, in practice, seedlings only are used for outside crops. Unde...
• Downy mildew
  on Aug 20, 2009 in Diseases
  Downy mildew (Phytopthora infestans DeBy.), the cause of the late blight of potatoes, will attack tomatoes during cool and very moist weather, which greatly favors its development. Such outbreaks sometimes occur to a limited extent in New England and...
• Tomato Fruit Worm
  on Jul 17, 2009 in Insects
  The tomato fruit worm known as the bollworm of cotton and the ear worm of corn, is frequently the cause of serious trouble to tomato growers, especially in the southern states, due to its pernicious habit of eating into and destroying the green and...

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