Tomatoes are the favorite food crop of America’s home gardeners. If you need information on selecting tomato varieties or on growing, pruning, and trellising your plants, and protecting them from pests, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got tomato recipes, on this site, too, and many more to offer on our sister site, FineCooking.com.

I like my greens and beans, but tomatoes are at the top of my gardening food pyramid. And I’m not alone. In a 2009 survey, 89% of the home gardeners surveyed in a 2009 National Gardening Association research study said they grow tomatoes, almost double the number growing cukes, the runner-up. So it’s not surprising that tomatoes are popular on VegetableGardener.com, where you’ll find a wealth of information on the topic. You’ll find a sampling below. The most viewed of these to date are marked with a tomato icon.

For an entertaining video overview of planting, pruning, staking, preserving, and cooking with tomatoes, watch Homegrown/Homemade: Tomatoes.

How to select, plant, and prune tomatoes

How to Grow Beefsteak Tomatoes	Growing Trouble-Free Cherry Tomatoes	Selecting and Growing Great Paste Tomatoes	Determinate, Indeterminate, and VFFNTA Tomatoes
Tomatoes for Stuffing	Beyond Beefsteaks	Tomato Trivia, Your Health, and George Clooney	The Best Tomatoes in Town
Video: How to Plant Tomatoes	Video: Early Pruning of Tomato Plants	Video: How to Prune Tomatoes	How to Start Tomato Plants from Cuttings

Perfect Tomatoes Come from Unhurried Biochemistry

A Few Good Bugs to Fight Tomato Pests

The Road to Healthy, Productive Tomatoes

Help Pollinate Your Tomato Plants

How Do You Choose Which Varieties to Grow?

Sweet Treats Lives Up to Its Name

‘Tomaccio’ Tomatoes are All Dried Up

‘Tis the Season for Tomatoes

Canning Tomatoes, Step by Step

2010 Tomato Roundup

2010 Tomato Roundup Winner and Results

It’s Delicious Being Green

Tomato trellises, stakes, and other supports

A Freestanding Tomato Trellis	Build an A-Frame Tomato Trellis (plan)	How to Support Tomatoes	DIY A-Frame Veggie Trellis
Three Garden Structures You Can Build	The (Tomato) Stakes Are High	Old Bedsheets Make Great Tomato Ties

Tomato recipes

Oven Roasted Whole Tomatoes

Green Bean and Cherry Tomato Salad

Herbed Goat Cheese Tartlets with Currant Tomatoes

Carrot Tomato Smoothie

Tomato Vodka

Fried Green Tomatoes

Quick and Easy Homemade Salsa

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