If you're growing your own tomatoes this season, it's time to get creative with some smart tomato trellis ideas. While tomato cages are a familiar choice, there's a whole range of alternative ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Conventional gardening wisdom says you should pinch off the suckers that grow between the main tomato stem and the leaves of indeterminate (vining) tomato plants to encourage bigger fruit and more ...

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Sometimes plants do a little too well for their own good and that’s especially true with tomatoes. You do everything right early in the summer to get them to bloom and fruit, only to watch them topple ...

Tom Miner harvests green beans in the rooftop garden at the Hammond Street Senior Center in Bangor in August 2015. Credit: Gabor Degre / BDN This story was originally published in June 2021. For ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

A large tomato plant that's outgrown its traditional cage and is sprawling everywhere - Emer1940/Getty Images If you've ever grown tomatoes in your garden, you'll know that their growth can get ...