Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

If you're growing your own tomatoes this season, it's time to get creative with some smart tomato trellis ideas. While tomato cages are a familiar choice, there's a whole range of alternative ...

If your tomatoes are starting to fall over, support your plants with a unique solution that eliminates the need for ...

Florida weave for tomatoes is a budget-friendly DIY trellis method for indeterminate and determinate varieties. Marje / Getty Images If you’ve ever tried growing lots of tomatoes at once, you know ...

Anyone who's ever grown an indeterminate tomato plant or sprawling squash vine in their garden knows that many edibles need a strong support system to maximize your harvest. But as easy as it is to ...

Caging your tomato plants provides support while improving plant health.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- My ongoing quest to devise the ultimate tomato plant support saw some progress this summer as I tinkered with last year’s set-up. The ultimate goal is a tomato support system that ...

We joked that the first words out of our children’s mouths would be “Hortonova trellis” because the amount of gardening talk that happens in our house and around the dinner ...

Tomato cages may be classic tools, but there's a better option that's not only cheaper, but more adaptable to different ...

You’ve sowed your tomato seeds, and now the seedlings stand like little green soldiers in your window, patiently waiting to be liberated from their pots and plunked into a warm bed of earth. What they ...

Tom Miner harvests green beans in the rooftop garden at the Hammond Street Senior Center in Bangor in August 2015. Credit: Gabor Degre / BDN This story was originally published in June 2021. For ...