Tomato Patch: Tomato plants for holiday decorating

Ready for the mantle? Veggie growers will have to admit the University of New Hampshire has come up with a brilliant idea: Tomato…

Tomato Patch: Time for green manure?

Green manure--or something else? I’ve bought many bags of composted manure over the years, and when I opened them in our garden, …

Tomato Patch: Last pickings

The end is near The diseased leaves and vines of Tomato Patch 2011 told me it was time to pick the last of this year’s tomatoes a…

Tomato Patch: Beginning of an early end?

Tomato Patch 2011: An early end? Sometimes the Tomato Patch gets too much of a good thing—rain. Early in the season I searched th…

Tomato Patch: Is it "mealy, mushy" time?

Celebrity tomatoes (and a stink bug) when the temperature was under 50 this morning The thermometer got me to thinking this morni…

Tomato Patch: Ginny's thick & quick tomato sauce

Ready to make sauce My tomato sauces for years were, well, unremarkable.  To be honest, sometimes I thought they were more like t…

Tomato Patch: Do They Have More Fun in Spain?

Tired of weeding your Tomato Patch?  Tired of fighting the stink bugs?  Tired of uprighting tomato cages tilted by a passing hurr…

Tomato Patch: Getting ready for Hurricane Irene

Ready for Irene Just how much trauma can the Tomato Patch take in one week—a 5.9 earthquake on Tuesday and a brush with Hurri…