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Are stakes or cages best? To prune or not to prune? These are the questions answered in this week's Master Gardener column.
Martha Stewart's vegetable garden features kale, tomatoes, soybeans, broccoli, and more – and it's so easy to follow her ...
Tomato plants have a naturally sprawling growth habit that need support if you want to get better harvests and healthier plants. There are lots of tomato cages and staking options on the market ...
For small, container tomatoes, traditional cages purchased ... a trellising system known as ‘basketweave’ or ‘stake and weave.’ With plants in a row, place a t-post in the ground between ...
Knowing how to support garden plants will help them flourish rather than flop. Here's everything you need to know ...
cages can be good for shorter varieties of tomato, while a trellis or stake are well-suited for taller plants. Whichever support structure is used, be sure to tie the vine to the support using ...
Growing tomatoes is difficult in the Carolinas, especially once you enter the month of June. To start seeds in February… watch them sprout and grow while it is still cold outside… finally plant ...
With UK temperatures set to top 30C, protect your tomatoes now to stop the fruit drying out or dropping before they ripen.
We spoke with two garden experts, who urge you to avoid these common tomato growing mistakes. Here's what they had to say.
A tomato plant with only one top will experience significantly ... fruit to ripen two weeks earlier as the entire root system supports that single top. The plant can then concentrate all its ...