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Please help me guys.. We have been fighting with some rats and raccoons to protect our tomatoes and carrots . Despite catching 2 of them in rat traps I was losing 2 tomatoes out of every three. They have burrowed into all of the soil. I lost interest and thinking about throwing away all the...

Veggie gardeners everywhere appreciate a well grown tomato. When you produce a healthy, delicious tomato, it truly does seem like the sky is the limit. There is so much you can do with that tomato but first you have to grow it. When it comes to growing tomatoes, we are constantly striving to...

For many of us, garden space is at a premium. This sometimes makes it so that we must choose between what we really want to plant and what we have room to plant. Although such decisions may riddle some of us with despair, this is when we should stop looking sadly into the dirt and instead look...

Commonly seen in the veggie garden is the tomato. In addition to being delicious and having a place alongside or inside of many meals, tomato plants and seeds are widely available. Most everyone can appreciate a crisp tomato on their burger, in their salad, or as part of a pasta dish, and as a...

There is frustration aplenty to be had when you set out into the garden in search of that perfect tomato only to instead find one with blossom end rot. Though it is a common issue with which veggie gardeners are faced, it is no less disheartening when it rears its ugly head. Rather than letting...

Watching as beautiful tomatoes come to fruition thanks to your gardening efforts is quite rewarding. As they appear, small and green, transitioning soon to become large, red, and delicious, we wait eagerly for the day they are ready to be plucked from the vine and moved inside to the dinner...

As we talked about in our last post, it's tomato season! So, in order to provide you with some inspiration for using your produce, I decided it was time to turn to some of my favorite recipe sites. Here is a list of some of the best ways to incorporate tomatoes into you summer meals. Homemade...

Tomatoes are one of the most varied plants you can put in your vegetable garden. Available in a wide range of shapes, colors, and tastes, there really is something for everyone. But how do you choose what to plant? Here's a quick breakdown of some of the most popular tomatoes gardeners tend to...

For most of us, deciding on a tomato to grow can be a daunting task. The best way to narrow down what ones you want in your garden is to consider a few main factors. Determinate or Indeterminate Tomatoes generally have two different growing habits. Determinate tomatoes are of the bush variety...

This is part two of the garden troubleshooting questions. Depending on the response I may continue to do this every month. Even those of us who have gardened for years seem to find ourselves stumped every now and then. I've always believed one can never have too much gardening knowledge. My...

Troubleshooting isn't just for computers. Sometimes questions crop up because of a new problem or situation in our garden. Just when we think we've got our bases covered, we spot a new pest on a plant or run across something odd in the garden. Today I have three answers to fairly common...