Tomato 411

OK, It’s that time of year to start thinking about growing tomatoes from seed….seed from the store if you didn’t save any seeds last year. We want to start thinking about ordering our seeds now so we can get them in time to start them and get them well under way before we have to [...]

Good ol’ Boxcar Willie and Kellogg’s Breakfast took it right on the chin with those damned Tomato Hornworms! I think I killed a total of 22 of the dastardly little beast…I would have said I killed 22 of the bastards, but this is a Family Tomato Blog…..so I didn’t! Anyway you can click on the [...]

Remember these guys?, two weeks ago? No? Well that probably because they are growing like they’re on “Steroids” or something! Naturally, they aren’t on steroids…I mean that would be illegal and next thing you know I’d be in front of some Congressional Committee trying to explain why needles were found in my garden shed and [...]

Is this an Organic Tomato or a Conventionally Grown Tomato? ….I’m gonna wager you can’t tell me. And when I say conventionally grown I mean a tomato that has non-animal fertilizers used on it as well as anything else the purist don’t like, like DNA alteration….although I’m sure none of you home gardening experts do [...]

Well here we are. Right at the start of the Tomato growing season. Naturally we’re not going to plant anything right now, but we can sure start planning a few items. Items like, what kind of tomatoes are we going to put in this year? I’ve had a bunch of questions about the tradition heirloom [...]

Often times we get stuck in a rut when we are selecting tomato plants we want to grow in our garden. One of the things I like to do is select an organic heirloom seed from one of my suppliers that suits my fancy for the current year. There are an almost endless supply of [...]