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 ...

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 ...

Looking for the best way to set up your summer vegetable garden? Greg Pryor explains stakes, trellises and more in this ...

Among the garden staples, tomato plants are some of the fastest growers. While this can be a beneficial trait, it also means that they need support early on to prevent breakage, disease, and crowding.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...