Plus, how to prevent it. You've watched your home-grown tomatoes spring up from yellow blossoms to ripe, ready-to-pick fruit. But one day, you find that your gorgeous crop has cracked. Luckily, new ...

Paris Alston: You're listening to GBH's Morning Edition. We are getting a bit of a break today from the wet weather that's become all too familiar this summer. But enjoy it while last because later ...

Growing food in your garden is a labor of love, that's why it's so distressing when your precious homegrown tomatoes start to develop cracks.

After planting your tomatoes at the start of the season and diligently watering them every day since, you'd hope your patience would have paid off with a harvest of ruby red gems by now. The best part ...

At first glance, green tomatoes can be a bit confusing -- aren't they just red tomatoes that haven't yet ripened? Sometimes, but there are actually two distinct categories in which you can place green ...

Have loads of green tomatoes but just don’t know what to do with them? Don’t throw them away — save them! Cynthia demonstrates how you can store unripened tomatoes to eat another day. Modern Gardener ...

Farming is a gamble, something even backyard vegetable gardeners know all too well. This year, some of us beat the typical first frost (32 degrees or below). At the recording station at the Yakima Air ...

This year Carol and I planted two tomato plants in our small garden. For the first time, one was a Roma plant. With this year’s hot weather, they are growing quickly, and we are already enjoying them.