Home & garden, state by state
Indiana tomato transplant dates depend on Indianapolis’s NOAA frost window, and this piece shows how to calculate a personal planting range from catalog maturity numbers.
Michigan’s tomato planting window runs from late April in Detroit to early May statewide, with variety choice and hardening off both critical to success.
Indiana’s tomato transplant window, from NOAA’s Indianapolis frost data, plus variety picks, companion planting and pest management for the growing season.
How to ferment, rinse, dry and store tomato seeds so they germinate well and grow true, plus which varieties will and won’t.
Cold storage damages tomato flesh permanently. Here’s why the fridge fails tomatoes and the counter method that actually keeps them good.
Learn the exact signs a tomato is ready to pick, plus how to ripen green tomatoes indoors before the first frost hits.
Learn to read tomato leaf spots, wilting patterns and fruit rot so you can identify the disease early and stop it before it spreads.
Yellow tomato leaves have several distinct causes. Learn to read the pattern so you treat the right problem instead of guessing.
Tomato flowers that bloom and drop without setting fruit point to heat, cold, poor pollination or too much nitrogen, not disease.
Learn to tell heat-stressed tomato leaves from herbicide drift and viral curling, and know which one still lets you save the plant and its fruit.