I have a marinara sauce recipe that calls for two 8oz cans of stewed tomatoes and one 6oz can of tomato paste. Now the farmers market in my area has started up for the spring and my parents also grow fresh tomatoes. How many fresh tomatoes do I need to use to substitute the canned [...]

We successfully grew our first 3 tomatoes! What should I do with them to really showcase the tomato flavor? Doesn’t necessarily have to be a full recipe (unless you want to), just an idea would be fine — thanks!

Had an oak tree stump ground up and now have a large pile of oak mulch. Thinking of tilling it into soil for tomato plants.

Fresh horse manure was mixed in with the soil before I planted my tomato plants. Will that be to strong for the plants since it was fresh or does it really make any difference. My horse got out and and got in to the garden. I got as much picked up as I could but [...]

I make homemade spaghetti sauce, but I want some easy recipes to use garden fresh tomatoes, not BLT’s…but salads, main dishes, anything…

I’m looking for some fresh tomato salsa recipes. Our family planted a bunch of tomatoes and we are going to have so many we don’t know what to do, so we were looking for good salsa recipes. We also have a few yellow bell pepper plants, and jalapeno plants. Anything else we need we can [...]

my mom’s friend told me that she put these in her salsa and i want to make it but i’m not sure how. if you hav the recipe, can you kindly type it here? thanks in advance

Every time I attempt to make a homemade tomato sauce using fresh tomatoes it comes out orange and tasteless.

someone told me when using a sundried tomato recipe its best not to use meat or if i choose to use it i should use crab meat or shrimp. is sundried another word for fresh tomatoes?