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 …

I’m a big believer in using what you have, and doing things as frugally as possible. I buy flower pots at garage sales, and use dollar store dish pans to grow vegetables in. So what of course, since I always have container gardening on the brain, a little light bulb went off in my head when I saw a bunch of 10″  and 12″ PVC pipe at a garage sale recently. I bought it all up for less than $5 and brought it home to make homemade PVC planters.
I used …

When Topsy Turvy started airing their commercials nation-wide, people went bonkers for the product.  It’s basically a fabric bag with a coiled wire support, in which gardeners are supposedly growing massive, delicious tomatoes.   If you’d like to grow tomatoes upside, down, though, I suggest you make your own upside down container instead of investing in a Topsy Turvy bag system.  (Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the TT works wonderfully, I just prefer to do things with minimal expense. )
What You’ll Need to Grow a Tomato Plant Upside …

Container gardens have so many benefits over traditional “in the ground” gardens. They need less water. I can control the soil quality. I can–with some dragging action–control the weather. But there are a few things that traditional and container gardens have to contend with. One of them is stinkin’ plant lice.
What are Plant Lice?
Some people call them aphids. Some people call them plant lice. Whatever you want to call them is fine, but you do NOT want them in your garden. These little buggers come in variety of colors (pink, …

Just because I garden in containers doesn’t mean I escape the drudgery of weeds and weed control. Ergh. In some of my pots, I still get occasional weeds. I figure the seeds are carried by the wind or birds, and dropped in my pots. The great thing is, weed control is sooooo much easier in a container garden that it would be if I had a conventional in-ground garden. In my little containers, I just pinch up the little offenders and go about my day. My larger containers, however, were …