The unseasonably warm temperatures of February and early March ignited the gardening fervor in a lot of people, if social media is any indication. Everyone gets excited and ...
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Kitchen Minis: Tomatoes, peppers on the kitchen counter
Talk about garden to table No Garden? No Problem. Buy. Eat. Repeat. Those are the taglines for some of the cutest plants I’ve seen in a while. Last summer at Ball Horticulture’s ...
Catching up to the season: Tomatoes, peppers planted
Gardeners are nothing if not optimistic. Optimism was the driving factor to my spending the last few days of June and first few days of July planting tomatoes and ...
Trial tomatoes provide tasty treats from the garden
I only grew trial tomato plants this year and the results were fantastic. This was probably one of the best tomato years I’ve had. By far, the top performer was Gladiator, a ...
An epic guide to growing tomatoes
For the last few week, gardener have been thinking about the upcoming planting season. And when it comes to growing our own, tomatoes top the list. To help us succeed comes Craig ...
Chef’s Choice Green for fried green tomatoes
The thing about fried green tomatoes is that we either eat unripened ones at the end of the season, when it’s starting to get cold and we know they won’t turn red. Or, we eat ...
Freeze tomatoes and peppers, but leave the stinkbugs outdoors
The last gasps of the growing season yield an onslaught of tomatoes and peppers and these are vegetables that don’t keep very well without some type of preservation. After ...
Two plants become one in grafted tomatoes, other plants
Last year, grafted vegetables, especially tomatoes, showed up on garden center tables. It’s not the term grafted that attracted people’s attention as much as the cost, frequently ...
Potatoes, tomatoes and lettuce, oh my!
Since this is the best time to think about what edibles we will grow this year, I reached out to area gardeners about what they are planning. Last week, we talked to gardeners who ...
Purdue detects late blight disease on tomatoes
Late blight disease was confirmed this week on several tomato samples from Tippecanoe County in west-central Indiana, leading the Purdue University Plant and Pest Diagnostic ...