Tomatoes are America’s favorite garden “vegetable” to grow. Botanically a fruit, the tomato was classified as a vegetable by the U.S. tariff law of 1887 because it’s served with dinner, not as dessert ...

If you haven't checked on our tomato plants for a couple of days and are amazed how much they grew, you won't need much convincing that pruning is an important part of tomato-care routine. It is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gardener pruning the water shoots that grow between the stems and twigs of the tomato plant - johan kusuma/Shutterstock You've ...

When your tomato plants aren't flowering, here's how to solve the problem so you can get fruit before summer's end. Both cold and hot temperature extremes can cause a lack of tomato flowers. Pruning, ...

I almost conceded this year that pruning tomatoes might be a useful thing at times. But then I got real. I’ve long fought the battle against spending time pruning tomatoes. Commercial growers -- who ...

Tomato plants naturally tend to produce lots of leaves and relatively fewer fruits. However, balancing leaf and fruit production by pruning tomato plants is easy. Not only will trimming off excess ...

Gardeners have a variety of options, some easier than others, to keep their tomato plants from sprawling over the ground.

Tomato plants can develop yellow leaves, curling foliage and damaged fruit from nutrient deficiencies, pests, diseases or ...

In addition to watering, fertilizing, and weeding, pruning your tomato plants is key to a bountiful harvest. Fact checked by Jillian Dara Knowing the difference between determinate or indeterminate ...