A few years ago, I spent a summer working on an organic vegetable farm. There were long days and early wakeups, but what made up for all that to me was harvesting tomatoes off the vine at the peak of ...

If you don't have a lot of outdoor space for a garden, or you just don't feel like staking, weeding, and otherwise spending a lot of time in the dirt, you can grow tomatoes upside down with just a few ...

For several summers, John Erman has harvested bushels of ruby red tomatoes – all grown in buckets done in a special design he first created about a decade ago. Voles and moles can’t get to the plants, ...

If there were a prize for gardening ingenuity, Gerret Marchello of Sea Cliff would win for inventing these upside-down tomato planters. “First, I paint the bucket black, which helps warm the roots and ...

Recent recalls of tomatoes in California and Florida reminded us of how good it is to grow your own. We just got the results of our tomato grow-off in which we pitted the Topsy Turvy Upside Down ...

In 2007 my New Years resolution was to help a few seniors get back to gardening. I resolved to help each grow a single tomato plant and, for once, I managed to keep my resolution. Some planted their ...