Lettuce and tomatoes I always hated tomatoes. The joke in my house was to make BLTs but hold the T—until I tasted tomatoes grown in a backyard organic garden in the heart of Los Angeles. What a difference. Keep the T in those BLTs! Just make sure they’re homegrown, from an organic garden. One night, […]
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Issue Q3 gives you the skinny from Artichokes to Zucchini!
Issue Q3 of The Dirt on Organic Gardening Magazine is out just in time for spring! Fifteen explorations into food, from the sex life of plants to the strange history of corn… From root veggies like potatoes, ginger and sweet potatoes to your favorite savory summer fruit–tomatoes–and a whole lot in between, find out more about […]
Growing tomatoes: determinate vs indeterminate
Knowing how to choose determinate or indeterminate plants is an important part of growing tomatoes. You’ll see these words on seed packets, or on the tabs for tomato seedlings in your local nursery. But what do they mean? And why would you choose one over the other? This is a subject that befuddles many new gardeners, especially when […]
Tomato season! Get those toms growing now!
A friend told me this morning that he had a couple of tomato plants that successfully survived our mild California winter. They were full of flowers, but no fruits. “I’m concerned the flowers are not getting pollinated,” he said. Rattling the cages I reminded him that tomatoes self-pollinate. This means that both male and female organs are […]
