So now we've proved the obvious: Tomatoes grown in the heat taste better. Not that we didn't ripen tomatoes in the fog of San Francisco -- 'Stupice,' 'Sungold' and 'Snow White,' the latter two cherry ...

Are you curious about how the Czech tomato variety Stupice, which has become so popular here, got to our country? A recent letter from Forest Shomer, founder of Abundant Life Seed Foundation, recounts ...

A few years ago I grew 19 varieties of tomatoes. This year I've seeded a modest eight. Why, you might ask, does a gardener need even eight varieties? Let me offer a defense. Tomato nuts like me want ...

One of the all-time favorite garden crops has to be tomatoes. When gardeners start talking about their gardens, invariably, they will begin comparing how their tomatoes did that summer. Some will ...

Last week we looked at getting onion seeds planted this month. This will give them time to germinate and then grow large enough to transplant in March or April. Onions plants are pretty tough when it ...

If you are starving for home-grown, vine-ripened tomatoes, stand in line - a very long queue extending along the coast of the Bay Area and then some. It's the height of summer, yet most gardeners are ...

SEATTLE — Ciscoe says there are some tricks to growing tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest, and the main one is to avoid this common pitfall: "Sometimes people make a few mistakes - and the biggest one ...