It can be hard to know how to start your backyard garden — how to tend to the fruits, vegetables, herbs and more. Beyond gloves or tools like trowels and shovels, one of the gardening gadgets you’re ...

Jun. 7—It's about time for home gardeners to transplant their tomato seedlings to garden beds in Maine. That means it's also time to provide some support for those growing plants. Shortly after you ...

It’s been said, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better tomato cage, and gardeners will beat a path to your yard.’’ That's the hope of Dave Schemmel, of ...

Tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) may start as tiny, well-behaved seedlings, but it doesn't take long for them to produce a multitude of disorderly vines — not to mention the dozens of pounds of ...

You can find political signs all over the place, and most of the time they’ve been left standing long after an election is over. If you want to get some use out of them, the wire supports can make for ...

If you’re tired of old, flimsy tomato cages, follow this step-by-step guide and make your own sturdy, wooden alternative. It can be folded up for ease of storage and is strong enough, by design, to ...

While “determinate” varieties such as Romas reach only 4 feet tall or so, “indeterminate” varieties – think ‘Better Boy’ and heirloom ‘German Johnson’ – tend to push well past 5 feet. And flimsy store ...

Q: I use 5-foot wire cages around my tomato plants, but the tomatoes grow up over the cages and bend them over until they break. Is there a way to correct this problem for next year? A: That's ...