Before you buy any tomato plants or seeds, you should decide whether you want to grow determinate or indeterminate tomatoes.

Get the scoop on whether determinate or indeterminate tomato varieties are best for your garden. Determinate tomato plants tend to be smaller and more compact, and they produce their entire tomato ...

Determinate tomatoes grow to a fixed size, produce fruit all at once, and are ideal for canning and compact spaces like containers. Indeterminate tomatoes grow continuously, need strong support, and ...

Many people swear by how flavorful garden-grown tomatoes are in comparison to store-bought ones. This alone can be motivation enough to start your own tomato garden. However, with more than 10,000 ...

A:Determinate or bush tomatoes, are shorter than the sprawling interdeterminate vines. Determinates have a repeating pattern of two leaves followed by a flower or fruiting cluster. Indeterminate ...

Every gardener has likely had a fail of some sort when growing tomatoes. These abundant growing vegetables (or fruit?) produce at such rapid speeds that planting them too close together is asking for ...

The arrival of Mother’s Day and the forecast calling for upcoming nights to stay reliably in the 50s means that we have the opportunity for an early and safe tomato planting date! (And yes, that means ...

Q: Can you tell me how to prune my tomato plants? I’m new to gardening. This is only my second year, and I keep reading that I need to prune my tomato plants for better tasting fruit. Is it too late ...