Archive | July, 2011

How to Grow Tomatoes using Hydroponic Gardening System

11 Jul

Hydroponic Tomatoes

Whilst it is true that setting up a hydroponic gardening system is quite a complicated project, hydroponics is a fascinating subject and one that can reap dividends. Better still, it is an environmentally friendly growing method that can be adapted to small areas, even minimal apartment balconies. Basically what it involves is growing plants without […]

Why and How to Prune Tomatoes

7 Jul

Removing suckers

Remove suckers below the first cluster of flowers. While staking and pruning is considered by some commercial tomato farmers to be a waste of money – purely because it is so labour intensive – this doesn’t apply to the average home veggie garden. More often than not home gardens have very limited space and so […]