Thinking about growing your own tomatoes?  Join the crowd!   Tomatoes are probably the most common veggie (fruit) grown in home gardens.  (That’s not based on any real data, just an educated guess based on the home gardeners that I know on and offline.)   Growing tomatoes is pretty darn easy, extremely rewarding, and it saves you scads of money versus buying tomatoes at a market.
I think that the economy has also created a boom in home gardening, because people are wanting to save money any way they can.
When I first started …

Last week, I talked about heirloom tomatoes, what they are, and how they differ from other tomatoes. Today, since we’re all about container gardening, I will talk about how to grow heirloom tomatoes in pots or other containers.
The secret to growing heirloom tomatoes in containers is this: There is no secret. Heirloom tomatoes are grown in containers just the way hybridized tomatoes are grown. You need the same basic supplies: large container, quality potting soil, fertilizer (I prefer organic), and some quality heirloom tomato seeds.  As always, the container must …

Carrots are my youngest child’s favorite thing to grow and eat.    It’s fun to watch him excitedly pull the carrots out of the ground when they are ready to harvest.  The first time he helped me with the garden, he was two years old.  When he harvested his first carrot, he ran to my husband and said, “Daddy! Look what I made!”   Container gardening is such a rewarding experience for me.  Not only is it fun to actually make food, from seed to dinner, it’s such a delight to see …

A healthy tomato plant has bright green leaves.   Every once in a while, though, a tomato plant’s leaves will change colors.   Yellow tomato plant leaves can be caused by a number of things.  Tomato plant leaves can go yellow for a number of reasons, ranging from easily-fixed benign problems to problems that will require treatment.
Yellow Tomato Plant Leaves Caused by Normal Growth
Sometimes the leaves at the bottom of a tomato plant will turn yellow and become wilted.  This is perfectly normal, and you shouldn’t worry about it at all.   If …

Juliet tomatoes are considered grape tomatoes. They are smallish (sort of like cherry tomatoes), but are more oblong in shape. They look like someone used a shrink ray on a Roma tomato.
Juliet tomatoes are known to be prolific growers and fruit bearers, so I used the biggest container I could find. I am using a large 30 gallon plastic tote, to give her all the room she needs for roots. I put several 6′ stakes around the seedling, and wrapped twine around them. (Why didn’t I go with …