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Home Grown Tomatoes News

Demand drives home-grown market

NORMAN — Sweet honey, red tomatoes, fuzzy okra, colorful crafts, coffee and donuts draw shoppers to the Noble Farmers Market each Saturday from May through early October.

Leaf-footed bugs are suckers for fresh tomatoes

As the song goes, “there’s only two things that money can’t buy: that’s true love and home-grown tomatoes.”

Garden Tips: Get to know which insects, diseases threaten tomatoes

Tomatoes, the most popular vegetable grown in home gardens, can be attacked by a number of diseases and insects.

Anything Grows: Nothing like a home-grown tomato

A happy tomato plant is a prolific tomato plant, and that makes everyone happy.

Arnada prepares raised garden

Arnada -- Dreaming of home-grown tomatoes, volunteers in the Arnada neighborhood have spent weekends preparing the ground for the new community garden in the vacant lot between 16th and 17th and E and D streets. Eventually soil will be shoveled into the raised boxes. Neighbors who have requested boxes will pay an annual fee to cover the water bills. Then it will be time to get busy planting.

Greenhouse grown tomatoes: Sembiring never new she had ‘farming in her blood’

Kosciusko and area residents will not have to wait until June or July to be able to have a juicy, Attala County grown, vine ripened tomato for the dinner table. Erin Biggers Sembiring is now harvesting 400 to 450 pounds of tomatoes each week from her greenhouse and offering them for sale locally.

Home grown herbs and edible flowers

In bloom: Leigh McDivitt has a garden with edible flowers at the Three Weeds Hotel in Rozelle. Chefs are skipping markets in favour of their own kitchen gardens, writes Grant Jones.

New index ranks Vermont tops in locally grown food

A committed "locavore," Robin McDermott once struggled to stock her kitchen with food grown within 100 miles of her Vermont home. She once drove 70 miles to buy beans and ordered a bulk shipment of oats from the neighboring Canadian province of Quebec.

Salad days at Durango market

Since locally grown tomatoes, squash and peppers typically are not ripe in May, it might seem a little green for the Durango Farmers Market to begin its season Saturday morning at the parking lot of First National Bank of Durango.

Urban farmers get growing in Parkdale

A Parkdale couple turnsmall yard into a high-yield urban ‘farm’