Countless gardeners know the joy of watching well-tended tomatoes evolve on the vine -- and the horror of discovering a brown, leathery spot on the bottom of those precious beefsteak, roma, or ...

One of the current issues plaguing the home gardener right now is blossom-end rot on tomatoes. Often mistaken for a disease, it is primarily a physiological problem. No bacteria or pest causes blossom ...

Avoid these pitfalls for harvestable fruits. For vegetable gardeners, few things compare to biting into the first tomato of summer. But sometimes these fruits, which can be finicky to grow, rot before ...