Tomatoes

Storing harvests for winter

Linda Cockburn writes about different ways to preserve your summer harvests, such as tomatoes, so you can keep on enjoying the results of all your hard work in winter. 

Tomato growing success

You can never have too many tomatoes in your harvesting basket! And with these tips from Helen McKerral you are sure to have plenty to share.  

Practical solutions for growing success

Cheryl McGaffin grows a wide range of heirloom tomatoes on her property on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. She shared her top growing tips with our horticultural expert, Penny Woodward.

Growing heirloom tomatoes

Penny Woodward loves heirloom cherry tomatoes, here she explains how to plant them from seed.

Growing tomatoes from seed

There are many ways of growing tomatoes from seed, but here is one of the simplest and most common, using punnets or seedling trays, from our horticultural editor Penny Woodward.

Modern heirloom tomatoes

Penny Woodward talks about modern heirloom tomatoes for you to ponder

Doing the tomato shake

Shake your tomato flowers to help with pollination and set fruit, writes Penny Woodward.

Tomato time again!

You can never have too many home-grown tomatoes, says PENNY WOODWARD.

The hard graft

Grafting your favourite tomato onto pest-resistant root stock will help eradicate tomato disease, writes PHIL DUDMAN.

Tomatoes are smarter than you think

Plants have abilities we can only dream of, reports SIMON WEBSTER.

Miracle Molasses

Molasses makes a handy addition to any gardener’s pest control kit. You can use it to manage chewing pests like caterpillars as well as root knot nematodes. PHIL DUDMAN describes how.