It’s a wonderful time of year when our tomatoes finally grow large and established enough to flower and set fruit. To make the most of our growing window, let’s cover fertilization strategies that will keep your tomatoes happy, healthy, and super-productive without wasting time and money on stuff you don’t need. If you prefer to watch your gardening tutorials, we’ve made the same content into a video as well. Tomato Fertilization at Seedling Stage Newly germinated seedlings don’t need supplemental fertilizers right away because they feed themselves via energy stores in their seeds....

If you love growing cherry tomatoes and want to maximize your harvest with proper pruning, you’ve come to the right place. My goal is to arm you with an evidence-backed cherry tomato pruning strategy that’s easy to employ in your own garden. Rather than try to cover every possible garden scenario and pruning method, I’ll describe to you how I actually prune my indeterminate cherry tomatoes and get straight to my recommendations!...

Clay soil is probably not what you wished for when dreaming up your garden. It can be a real challenge and one that is often ignored in gardening guides. Luckily, there are some straightforward principles and tactics we can show you to turn your clay soil into a plant growing machine! In this article, you’ll learn about the chemical and logistical challenges that clay soil presents and how you can overcome each of them today with a quick trip to your local hardware store and a few bucks in materials....

If you asked me a few years ago how I prune my eggplants I’d have given you a funny look. Who prunes their eggplants? Has this whole pruning craze gone too far? I mean come on, is it truly necessary to prune an eggplant? It turns out we should all be pruning our eggplants because there’s a surprising amount of real research evidence for doing so. And I love, love, love little tricks and hacks that are actually backed up by science to help us grow more food at home....

To get right to the point, the truth is you probably don’t need to prune your pepper plants… at least not in the way commonly suggested. But there’s a little more to the story, so let’s take a closer look to understand why not pruning is the way to go most of the time and a few exceptions to that rule. Pepper Plant Structure As you can see in the image above, pepper plants have a really clear main stem as well as lots of peripheral stems growing out of the leaf nodes....