It's no surprise that tomatoes are a popular edible plant— so popular, in fact, that they're the one of the most consumed vegetables in the world, second only to potatoes. Growing them yourself comes ...

The roots of your tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants need plenty of room to grow, but compacted soil can limit their ability to produce healthy fruit and also promote pathogens. When tomato plants ...

Q: We had some blossom end rot on our tomatoes last year, which I thought was due to calcium deficiency and uneven soil moisture. But I just read that soil acidity can be a problem. I'm guessing we ...

RECENT observations on the brown root rot complex of tomatoes caused Last and Ebben 1 to support the view of Termohlen 2 that a fungus which produces a grey sterile mycelium in culture is responsible ...

Q: Some of my tomatoes are rotting. I keep them off the ground, but they still have rot. What should I do? T. S., Tulsa A: Tomato fruit splits, rots or develops blemishes for several reasons. Usually ...

A dark leathery lesion on the underside of tomatoes indicates blossom end rot. It’s not a fungal condition alone, but a location of calcium deficiency that allows rot to develop. Typically, BER occurs ...

Plant tomatoes in your backyard for a tasty slice of summer.

Healthy potted tomatoes need steady, balanced feeding, even moisture and restraint, not random feeds that trigger a stall and ...

For nearly 11 months out of the year we buy tomatoes, squeezing them for ripeness, cringing at the cost and with the first bite telling ourselves "these definitely aren't homegrown." Finally, it's ...

Root and foliar spray abscisic acid applications were studied to determine how ABA affects the incidence of blossom-end rot in distal tissue of tomato fruit. A combination of spray and root ABA ...