Growing your own produce can be very rewarding, unless your almost-ripe tomatoes start to split and crack. Prevent this frustrating issue with clever watering.

What’s going on, and is there anything I can do about it? Oh, tomatoes in late summer in a warm and wet place like here — they’re not usually happy campers. What you’re describing sounds like either ...

Tomatoes need plenty of sunlight to produce fruit, but too much sun and heat can cause tomatoes to get sunscald. Here's how to prevent sunscald on your tomato plants in the South.