If you’ve ever grown plants from seed, you might’ve wondered what would happen if you stored your seeds in the refrigerator. Would the seeds remain inert and lifeless? Would they eventually germinate? What happens if you put seeds in the fridge? Refrigerated seeds cannot germinate because they lack two necessary ingredients for germination: warmth and…
I love growing my tomatoes from seed, but when I was a novice gardener, I didn’t really know what to do. Should I buy seeds from my local garden center? Or purchase seeds from an online seed supplier? One day, after a trip to the local farm market, I was prepping some fresh tomatoes for…
Have you ever opened a can of whole tomatoes, taken a tomato out, and wondered, ”Can I plant these seeds?” If you’ve ever wondered about planting canned tomato seeds, there’s no need to do any more googling since I conducted an experiment recently to see, once and for all, if I could germinate a single…
Have you ever wondered if you could just take a whole tomato and plant it in the ground instead of scooping out the seeds and planting them individually. Would this actually work, or would the tomato simply rot beneath the soil? Planting whole tomatoes will produce new tomato plants, which is how tomatoes have naturally…
If you’ve ever grown tomatoes from seed, you’ve likely experienced some of the frustrations I’ve experienced over the years. You plant your seeds, you make sure the planting soil stays moist, and you wait for tomato seedlings to pop out of the ground. Then a week or so goes by and…it’s not what you expected….
I love growing tomatoes, especially tomato varieties that you can’t find in stores. Sometimes I’ll purchase heirloom seeds. Other times I’ll buy hybrid seeds. But many years ago, when I was still a novice gardener, I wondered what would happen if I harvested seeds from a hybrid tomato plant, then planted them the following season….
Have you ever found a package of seeds in your seed stash and couldn’t remember what seeds they were? Or noticed a volunteer plant sprout up in your garden and couldn’t readily identify it? If any of this sounds familiar, then this is the article for you since I’m going to lay out, as simply…
I love growing tomato plants and harvesting all kinds of tomatoes. But over the years, a wide variety of destructive pests–from aphids and leaf-footed bugs to hornworms and spider mites–have done their best to undo all of my hard work. I’m averse to chemical insecticides, so I’ve recently turned to neem oil–which contains the naturally…
I began gardening in 2009 back when I lived in New Jersey, and one of the things that I enjoyed most about the Garden State was growing tomatoes. The growing season was relatively short compared to North Texas (where I live now), but the climate was ideal for growing the plants I love most. But…
Like me, you’ve probably seen tomato seeds in your local home improvement store and noticed that the selection is pretty limited. They might only have a few different varieties, including cherry, roma, beefsteak, and possibly a few you haven’t heard of or tried. Years ago, I remember holding four of five packets in my hand…