What’s bugging your tomatoes: 12 tomato troubles
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What’s bugging your tomatoes: 12 tomato troubles

We uncover the top 12 tomato troubles, from whitefly and blossom end rot to fruit fly and blight, with organic controls for each.

Sungold tomatoes in a bowl
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How to grow a rainbow of tomatoes

Peter Vouthas grows 60 tomato varieties a year. A step-by-step guide to growing tomatoes: seed sowing, potting on, hardening off and his top 10 picks.

A basket filled with a variety of colourful tomatoes.
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Grow: tomatoes

Who doesn't love homegrown tomatoes straight off the vine? If you follow these tips you'll have a bumper harvest of these colourful beauties come spring.

Herbs in pots can be moved around your garden as needed.
Build your garden

Sow seeds and save money 

As prices rise and home-spending tightens, growing your own food at home has a fresh appeal, and with the tips here you can easily get started.

Tomatoes growing on a vine.
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Grow more tomatoes

Read on for growing tips from Peter Vouthas, who grows 60 varieties of these family favourites every year, resulting in a garden filled with tomatoes of many different shapes, sizes, colours and flavours.

Ripening tomatoes growing on a vine, surrounded by green leaves.
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Five tips to ensure tomato growing success

With the right care, these juicy, flavour-packed fruits can thrive in your garden, providing fresh produce all season long. These five organic growing tips will get you started.

Bottles tomatoes all ready to be put aside for winter.
Preserving & fermented

Storing harvests for winter

Linda Cockburn writes about different ways to preserve your summer harvests, such as tomatoes, so you can keep on enjoying the results of all your hard work in winter.

Tomatoes are a favourite here at Organic Gardener!
Vegetables

Tomato growing success

You can never have too many tomatoes in your harvesting basket! And with these tips from Helen McKerral you are sure to have plenty to share.

Coloured tomatoes
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Why is a red tomato red?

Tomatoes come in a variety of colours, explains Penny Woodward, with quirky names to match.

One of Cheryl McGaffin's heirloom tomato varieties.
Vegetables

Practical solutions for growing success

Cheryl McGaffin grows a wide range of heirloom tomatoes on her property on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. She shared her top growing tips with our horticultural expert, Penny Woodward.

'Mini Amish' heirloom tomatoes
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Growing heirloom tomatoes

Tomatoes are a favourite in the kitchen and a must-have to grow in a backyard patch, here you can learn how to plant them from seed.

Tomato seedlings
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Growing tomatoes from seed

There are many ways of growing tomatoes from seed, but here is one of the simplest and most common, using punnets or seedling trays.