Ars Technica has a tutorial on one of my favorite...  ...ts own. The easiest common plant to start with is tomatoes , which is what Jacqui Cheng uses to demonstrate....

tomatoes are grown for their looks and not for t...  ...id growers go wrong in developing taste tomatoes ? Science has the answer, and the culprit i...  ...Sometime before 1930, somewhere in America, a tomato grower noticed a plant that was p...

Why are tomatoes red? Research by Dutch scientists discovered that...  ...the Wageningen UR coordinator of the tomato genome research project. 'We suspect that the met...  ...for plants to survive. A distant ancestor of the tomato plant then reacte...

(YouTube link) There's nothing a tortoise lik...  ...re's nothing a tortoise likes better than a fresh tomato -just ask any tomato gardener! Kevin is no exception, but he desperate...

To-may-to, to-mah-to ... fruit, vegetable - whate...  ...sure: people love it. But if you have only tasted tomatos bought from the supermarket shelves, you're missi...  ...story of the dirty little secrets of supermarket tomato over at NPR: ... the tomatoes you see in those sup...

This chart makes me hungry. From Abstruse Goose. Link -Thanks, Oscar!...

Have you ever wondered why tomatoes , potatoes, and some other plants have hairy stems...

A bacon sandwich is good anytime, but August s t...  ..., but August s the best time for BLTs, when local tomatoes are at their peak. At the fifth annual Tomato Fest in St. Louis, Tom Coghill and 90 volunteers...  ...world record for the biggest bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandw...