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Tomato is certainly the very first plant every aspiring gardener starts growing. The joy in biting your own tomatoes is simply magical!

Open glass jars of dark russet green tomato chutney on a weathered garden table, spoon resting beside, whole green tomatoes, apples and ginger scattered around

Green Tomato Chutney with Apple, Ginger and Mustard Seed

Sauces, Dips & Spreads
Wide shallow bowl of green runner beans and freekeh with split red and yellow cherry tomatoes, crumbled white cheese, torn basil, chopped almonds, olive oil sheen

Runner Bean and Freekeh Bowl with Blistered Tomatoes and Almonds

Salads & Bowls
Shallow bowl of pale golden risotto flowing to the rim, torn white burrata in the centre, brick-red tomato compote, emerald basil oil drops, cracked pepper

Tomato Water Risotto with Basil Oil and Torn Burrata

Pasta & Grains
Wide shallow bowl of swirled garlic yogurt topped with green purslane leaves, golden bulgur, diced red tomato, cucumber, chopped walnuts, mint and ruby sumac, outdoors on weathered wood

Purslane and Bulgur Bowl with Garlic Yogurt and Walnuts

Salads & Bowls
Rustic cast-iron pan of golden-skinned chicken thighs nestled in glossy red, orange and yellow pepper strips with tomato sauce, scattered parsley, crusty bread beside

Chicken Braised with Sweet Peppers, Tomatoes and Smoked Paprika

Main Dish
Rustic toasted bread slices topped with creamy white bean mash, glistening diced red and yellow tomatoes, torn basil leaves, and a drizzle of vivid green herb oil.

Garden Tomato and White Bean Bruschetta with Herb Oil

Appetizers and Tapas
A bowl of smooth deep-red chilled tomato soup swirled with bright green basil oil, garnished with feathery fennel fronds, beside a spoon

Chilled Roasted Tomato and Fennel Soup with Basil Oil

Soup
Tree tomato

Tree tomato, how to plant and care for Tomato Tree

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Cuor di bue tomato, here a small one

Cuor di bue, the original beefsteak tomato

Gardening
Torino tomato

Torino tomato, the healthiest tomato: 10x more lycopene

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Tomato is a fruit that many think is a vegetable

Tomato, a fruit or a veggie? The final answer.

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New varieties of tomatoes produced every year show how important this king of vegetables is for us

King of vegetables? The Tomato, of course!

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Basket with banana legs tomatoes in it

Banana Legs tomato, long and yellow, like a banana!

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Beefsteak tomato

The beefsteak tomato, a massive tomato ideal for baking

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Saint Pierre tomato

Saint Pierre Tomato, one of the tastiest tomatoes ever

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Marmande tomatoes

Marmande tomato, it harks back to the first industrial tomatoes

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Indigo rose tomato

Indigo rose, a tomato variety for small, black cocktail tomatoes

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Large, green slightly striped primora tomato

Primora tomato, a large, dark, striped variety that looks stunning in salad

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Andine cornue tomato growing on a stake

Andine cornue tomato, a horn-like tomato that’s delicious and productive

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Four roma tomatoes on the vine

Roma tomato, disease-resistant and nearly seedless

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Varieties of tomato in a crate, with each type used differently

Best tomato types for each cooking use, 5 types

Gardening
Three honey moon tomato

Honey Moon tomato, round and firm, and tasty, too!

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Seedless tomato variety

Seedless tomato varieties to grow in the vegetable patch

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Brandywine tomato on the plant

The brandywine tomato, a large beefsteak tomato with smooth flesh

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Black zebra tomato

Black zebra, the darker striped tomato

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Black krim tomato growing on the plant

Black krim tomato, a dark-skinned tomato with a rich, meaty flesh

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Pineapple tomato, a large tomato

Meet the tasty Pineapple tomato, large and round with few pips

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Black necrosis on leaves with a yellow border are the marks of alternaria, or early blight, on tomato plants

Tomato early blight, the dreaded Alternaria fungus: alternatives to beat it

Treating diseases and pests
Tomato suckers, keep or remove them

Tomato suckers: remove or keep? [Battle begins]

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Colorado potato beetle

Potato beetle, strike the striped Colorado beetle early!

Treating diseases and pests
When to harvest tomato

Get the timing ripe! When and how to harvest tomato

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Three green zebra tomatoes

Zebras in the veggie patch Yup! green zebra tomato!

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Tips and tricks to get the pruning of your tomato plants right

Pruning tomato plants, let those shears run loose!

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Envelope with tag showing saved tomato seed

Save seeds from good tomatoes to grow next year

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Cyphomandra fruits hanging from a tree

Cyphomandra, a tree that’s part of the tomato family

Shrubs
Nettle good for tomato

Nettle and tomato – convert weeds into great harvests!

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Tomato growing and ripening in a pot

How to Grow and Care Tomatoes in Pots ?

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Tomato care

Tomato care – watering, fertilizing, companions, pruning…

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Tomato plants with a makeshift tie and stake

How to stake tomatoes – cages, twine or poles?

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Diseased tomatoes infected with tomato blight

Tomato blight, effective organic treatments against downy mildew

Treating diseases and pests
Tomatoes plant

How to grow tomato, the perfect guide

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Tomato growing Smart Tip Tutorial – a 2-minute video guide

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easy enjoyable tomato varieties

Enjoying tomatoes in the garden

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Tomato plant with no disease

Tomatoes without diseases

Treating diseases and pests
no stake tomato

No-stake tomatoes – without cages or stakes, grow tomato directly on the ground!

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Tomato benefits

Tomato: what it contains, how to use it in the kitchen and on the skin

Health
Tomato sowing

Tomato, sow your tomatoes the right way

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Tomato pinworm

Tomato pinworm, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease

Treating diseases and pests