FILLED WEEKEND IN FAIRFIELD. TOMORROW BRINGS THE OPENING OF FAIRFIELD’S 3330 THIRD ANNUAL TOMATO AND VINE FESTIVAL. AND JOINING US THIS MORNING IS MAYOR CATHERINE MOY TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE EVENT.

Before you buy any tomato plants or seeds, you should decide whether you want to grow determinate or indeterminate tomatoes.

For those interested in growing their own tomatoes, it's important to avoid this common pruning mistake that can make or ...

The end of summer gives us one of the season’s most luscious parting gifts: colorful, juicy, vine-ripened tomatoes. Full of real tomato flavor, local varieties taste of summer itself – sun and grass ...

Who says science can't be delicious? Researchers at Rutgers have developed a resilient new variety of grape tomato that's as ...

In June, just days before I started picking fresh tomatoes from my garden, I used my last bag of frozen tomato sauce from last year's harvest. I was craving comfort food, and one of the dishes at the ...

Vibrant, juicy, flavorful tomatoes were the focus of Saturday’s 30th annual Tomato and Vine event in downtown Fairfield. From giant red varieties to palm-sized green and yellow fruit to tiny but ...

This morning’s mail brings the following query from reader Robert Lester Porter: There is a phenomenon in the Chicago area that perplexes me and before I go to an early grave I would like to hear an ...