Question: My Cherokee Purple tomato variety is flowering but not setting fruit. Is fruiting time over due to the heat? Answer: Yes, heat has put a damper on the fruiting of most tomato varieties.

Consumers have seed savers and amateur breeders to thank for discovering and sharing heirloom varieties of some vegetables and tomatoes like the... Fortunately for those of us who are suckers for ...

Determinate tomatoes grow to a fixed size, produce fruit all at once, and are ideal for canning and compact spaces like containers. Indeterminate tomatoes grow continuously, need strong support, and ...

Dear Roger: This may seem trivial. I grew a new type of tomato this year and it tastes totally bland on a tomato sandwich. I lust for my tomato sandwiches each year and ate my first ones last week.

Without question, Madeline — a graduate student at Portland State’s School of Architecture in her real life — is into tomatoes more than anyone I know. What began as a wise way to generate food during ...