Person sprinkling granulated fertilizer around small tomato plant - encierro/Shutterstock Successfully cultivating homegrown tomato plants requires healthy servings of good soil, sufficient water, ...

Tomato plants require a lot of nutrients to grow and produce healthy fruit. To ensure your tomato plants get the nutrients they need, it is important to provide them with fertile soil, and that often ...

Sweet, juicy, homegrown tomatoes are the epitome of backyard gardening produce, and they don’t happen by accident. It takes a combination of diligence, patience, sunshine, and soil fertility to grow ...

Give tomatoes planted in the ground a deep watering once or twice a week in the morning. This will give the roots enough time ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bob Zeni, the Chicago Tomato Man, joins ...

Bob Zeni, the Chicago Tomato Man, joins Wendy Snyder, in for Bob Sirott, to inform listeners on how often they should fertilize their tomatoes, the recommended distance to keep between plants, and the ...

We are in the heart of our short Michigan growing season. All things green and growing can use fertilizer now. We have to remember that plants eat too. Right now most plants are as hungry as they will ...