Summer tomatoes are sweet and juicy, but like summer, they are gone fast unless preserved. There are many easy ways to preserve summer tomatoes at home so you can enjoy their flavor when summer ...

Reaching into the freezer or cupboard for the fruits (and vegetables) of your labor in summer garden makes those meals even ...

I love canning, but even I was intimidated by preserving tomatoes. So earlier this month, I bought 50 pounds of plum tomatoes at the farmers’ market to try to tackle my fears. Mainly, I was daunted by ...

In late May, I helped a friend transplant more than 100 tomato starts into her prodigious garden. For my labors I'd get a share of the bumper crop come late August. Hands gloved with soil, I looked ...

Preserve the taste of summer by canning tomatoes. It’s harvest season for Iowa gardens and many of us are up to our elbows in tomatoes and peppers. If you’re finding yourself with enough produce to ...

Across Sacramento kitchens in midsummer, cooks annually see red. The trigger is an avalanche of homegrown tomatoes – or irresistible bargains brought home from the farmers market. In the heart of ...

Would a summer without garden-grown tomatoes really be summer at all? For me, summer is: tomatoes ripening on the windowsill; picking the hornworms off the tomato plants; a huge bowl of tomatoes on ...

Juicy, sweet tomatoes are a staple of summer—and if you grow the fruit at home (or love to stock up at the farmers' market), you probably know what it's like to have an influx of tomatoes in your ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! September has arrived along with college football season, back to school and the fall harvest. I am dedicating this column to my cousin Kim Barrett, who ...

Tomato season certainly has been worth the wait, but what to do with all those red baubles piling up like bocce balls in the garden. Not to worry: We've got lots of ideas for using up this year's crop ...

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It only took a trip to Mile 12, Ketu Market in Lagos, the popular fruit and vegetable market, for us to change the focus of our writing for this week. The sight of rotten heaps of tomato and pepper ...