Smaller tomato plants are easier to move indoors, so pick up your pruners and clip away excess foliage or damaged leaves. When you’re done, you should be left with about 1 to 2 feet of the plant ...

Tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) are beloved by gardeners, with over 10,000 possible types to grow. These leafy annuals grow juicy, flavorful fruits in shades of red, yellow, orange ...

some cheap imported tomatoes are grown under polytunnels, picked under-ripe, then artificially ripened with ethylene gas, a plant hormone. Sun-warmed tomatoes picked straight from the vine are ...

There are two types of tomatoes — plants that grow in a bush and plants that cascade (which need staking). The bush varieties are self-supporting (no staking needed), produce early in the ...

ANGELIQUE DONNELLAN: Over 43 hectares north of Adelaide, Perfection Fresh is growing more than a million tomato plants. But the huge glasshouse operation is under indefinite lockdown because of ...

Grow French marigolds among tomatoes. Marigolds emit a strong odour that will repel greenfly and blackfly. Grow sage with carrots or plants in the cabbage family to ward off pests. Both have ...