Tomatoes

Grow more tomatoes

Read on for growing tips from Peter Vouthas, who grows 60 varieties of these family favourites every year, resulting in a garden filled with tomatoes of many different shapes, sizes, colours and flavours.

Five tips to ensure tomato growing success

With the right care, these juicy, flavour-packed fruits can thrive in your garden, providing fresh produce all season long. These five organic growing tips will get you started.

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.

Why is a red tomato red?

Tomatoes come in a variety of colours, explains Penny Woodward, with quirky names to match.

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

Tomatoes are a favourite in the kitchen and a must-have to grow in a backyard patch, here you can learn 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.

Tending tomatoes

Homegrown tomatoes need regular tending right though the summer to ensure they get what they need from the soil and are pollinated.

Tomatoes in pots

Karen Sutherland tells us how to grow tomatoes in pots.

Modern heirloom tomatoes

Heirloom tomato seeds have many advantages especially as they are non-hybrid plants from which you can collect seeds and regrow plants that generally grow true to type.

Doing the tomato shake

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