PLANT GUIDES
How to Grow Your Own Herbs at Home in 2026
Learning how to grow your own herbs at home in 2026 takes about 30 days...
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Pruning Tomato Plants: Sucker Removal and Topping Guide
Pruning is the highest-leverage maintenance task on indeterminate tomato plants — and the single most...
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Tomato Heirloom Seeds: Best Varieties and Where to Buy
An heirloom tomato is, by accepted definition, an open-pollinated variety at least 50 years old....
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Sun Gold Tomato Plants: Growing the Sweetest Cherry Tomato
Sun Gold is the cherry tomato that converts people who think they don't like tomatoes....
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Companion Planting for Tomatoes: 12 Best and Worst Pairings
Companion planting around tomatoes is one of the few garden traditions where the folklore mostly...
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Fertilizing Tomatoes: NPK Schedule by Growth Stage
The single most common tomato fertilization mistake is treating tomatoes like a houseplant — a...
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Staking Tomatoes: The Single-Stake Method Step by Step
Single-stake staking is the highest-yield-per-square-foot tomato support method that exists. A properly staked indeterminate vine...
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Trellis for Tomatoes: Cages, A-Frames, and Florida Weave
The flimsy 3-ring cone cages from big-box garden centers will collapse under a healthy tomato...
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Tomato Seedlings: Hardening Off and Transplanting Guide
The week between "I have nice-looking tomato seedlings" and "they're in the garden" kills more...
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Growing Tomatoes from Seeds: Direct Sow Outdoors Guide
If you garden in USDA zones 9 to 11, or have a guaranteed 110+ frost-free...