These tomatoes from the All-America Selections trials crushed the competition with their outstanding flavor. Each year, scores of new tomato varieties appear on the scene to tempt gardeners. But which ...

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 ...

For the last few week, gardeners have been thinking about the upcoming planting season. And when it comes to growing our own, tomatoes top the list. To help us succeed comes Craig LeHoullier’s “Epic ...

Just because the days are getting shorter does not mean that it's time to retire your tomato-growing dreams. While tomatoes are often associated with the warm and sunny summer months, fall can be a ...

A Wayne Twp. couple found themselves in a “Jack and the Beanstalk” situation with their beefsteak tomato plants and sunflowers this growing season. Kathy and John Konkus purchased the tomato plants as ...

Kathy Cyriacks could not tell what the hubbub was about at the Ely Northland Market last week. First she thought folks were weighing a big fish. Then she saw the giant tomato. “It’s huge,” said ...

The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season's Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a sliced ...

On a frigid day in February, William Bouziotis sowed hundreds of seeds indoors and embarked on a complicated enterprise that involved growing and splicing two types of tomato seedlings together to ...