The #1 Key to Growing Tomatoes

This comprehensive tomatoes guide provides essential information and practical insights. When you're growing tomatoes, achieving Pinterest-perfect specimens isn't easy—but this key makes it possible. 3 Expert Tomato Growers Share Their Best Tips. Homesteading Basics: How to Keep Tomatoes Fresh The stems rot, spots appear on the leaves, insects carve out chunks from the plants—and then, if they get through all that, horrifying horned beasts manifest themselves during the weekend the in-laws are visiting and you're not looking. When asked about their favorite garden vegetable, gardeners consistently name one that is a total pain in the neck. And technically speaking, it isn't even a vegetable. How we struggle to grow these, oh most savory of edibles. Blossom End Rot and Leaf Spots and Hornworms … Oh My. I had the honor of working with tomato expert Craig LeHoullier, author of Epic Tomatoes and namer of the much-loved Cherokee Purple variety. During our interview, he likened tomatoes to roses because, similarly to the queen of the flower garden, everything attacks them.