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 …

Garlic is probably one of my favorite things that I grow in my container garden. I LOVE garlic, and love all of its healthy benefits. People would be amazed at how very simple it is to grow your own garlic at home. You can even give yourself a head start and plant a sprouted garlic bulb in a container, instead of planting seeds. Sprouted garlic bulb? Yup. You know those heads of garlic that you forget about, and by the time you find them, some of the bulbs are forcing …

I live in South Texas, and the summers are almost always ALWAYS ridiculously hot.  Every summer, my kids joke that they’re going to try to fry an egg on the sidewalk. And every summer, they “forget” about their plan because it’s just too hot to go out to see if it would actually work.
It’s that very same heat that is putting a lot of stress on my container garden.  I water the plants at least three times per day.  Still, they’re wilting from the heat.  I think that if we …

The first thing that you need to know about pruning tomato plants is this: determinate and indeterminate tomato plants have different pruning needs. To find out what kind of plant you have, check your seed packet, or the small plastic stake that came with your tomato seedling. Before you move on to the tomato pruning guide, learn more about determinate and indeterminate tomato plants.
Once you’ve determined (no pun intended) that you need to prune your tomato plant, here are some basic pointers:

Remove all of the suckers from your tomato plant …

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 …