http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com Mmmmm - Delicious! Sat, 14 May 2011 18:45:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/container-growing/can-i-grow-cherry-tomatoes-in-a-container/ http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/container-growing/can-i-grow-cherry-tomatoes-in-a-container/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:03:46 +0000 Gail http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/?p=528 If you’re asking, “Can I grow cherry tomatoes in a container – successfully?” then the answer is yes – with a few small qualifications. Here’s what you need to know about growing your cherry tomato plant in a pot/container. Growing Cherry Tomato Plants – Soil First off, growing cherry tomato plants really isn’t any different from growing [...]]]> http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/container-growing/can-i-grow-cherry-tomatoes-in-a-container/feed/ 2 http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/great-tomato-experiment/gt-experiment-report-1/ http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/great-tomato-experiment/gt-experiment-report-1/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:00:08 +0000 Gail http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/?p=493 The Great Tomato Experiment is underway!  This is the first report of the series, and the race is just beginning. While you can read the full story behind The Great Tomato Experiment, a summary is as follows: There are three plants, grown from seed from the same packet (plant variety is the heirloom tomato Pineapple).  One plant is [...]]]> http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/great-tomato-experiment/gt-experiment-report-1/feed/ 0 http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/growing-tomatoes/tomatoes-farmers-markets/ http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/growing-tomatoes/tomatoes-farmers-markets/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:03 +0000 Gail http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/?p=50 You might be asking, “why grow my own tomatoes when I can buy them fresh at the farmer’s markets?”.  And it is a good question.  Here’s a little story about my latest venture to a farmer’s market. I was looking for tomatoes (since I planted late don’t have anything ripe), cucumbers, strawberries — foods of that [...]]]> http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/growing-tomatoes/tomatoes-farmers-markets/feed/ 0 http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/tomato-insects/tomato-insects/ http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/tomato-insects/tomato-insects/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:10:24 +0000 Gail http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/?p=20 Tomatoes are pretty “user friendly”, but that doesn’t mean you won’t have to check your plants.  A hungry tomato hornworm can decimate a tomato patch if left to itself, and a horde of grasshoppers, can, well, plague you! So what’s a tomato-loving gardener to do?  You can fight back!  The most common insects and their suggested [...]]]> http://www.homegrown-tomatoes.com/tomato-insects/tomato-insects/feed/ 1