Keep tomato plants productive through midseason with sensible pruning, feeding, watering and support. Learn what to remove, when to take off lower leaves and when pinching out an indeterminate plant is useful.

Identify the pests eating or damaging your tomato plants by examining the leaves, stems and fruit. Learn how to prevent and manage problems using physical controls, natural predators and responsible organic methods.

Learn how to recognise blight, leaf spots and other tomato infections, distinguish disease from environmental stress and take responsible action using prevention and organic-growing principles.

Tomatoes can crack, split, develop sunscald or ripen unevenly because of changing moisture levels, strong sunlight, heat and other growing stresses. Learn how to recognise, prevent and manage these common fruit problems.

Small harvests and slow-ripening tomatoes can result from variety, weather, poor light, irregular watering, nutrient imbalance or excessive leafy growth. Learn how to identify the cause and help the crop develop.

Tomato plants may flower without producing fruit because of extreme temperatures, poor pollination, humidity, water stress or excessive nitrogen. Learn what causes blossom drop and how to improve fruit set naturally.

Blossom end rot causes dark, sunken patches at the base of tomato fruits. Learn why disrupted calcium uptake—often caused by uneven watering—is usually responsible, how to prevent it and what to do when it appears.

Use the symptoms on your tomato plant to narrow down the likely cause. This quick diagnostic guide helps distinguish environmental stress, nutrient problems, diseases and pest damage before deciding what action to take.

Learn how to grow healthy, productive tomato plants from sowing and planting through to watering, feeding, pruning and harvesting. This complete guide covers both determinate and indeterminate tomatoes in gardens, containers and greenhouses.