Tomato Casual and Urban Garden Casual were recently featured on “Rick’s RSS” segment on FOX 61 News in Connecticut.

Rick Hancock interviewed Reggie Solomon, about his blogs during the FOX News show’s weekly segment that let’s you know what’s hot on the web and what’s tops in technology.

If you ever wanted to check out Reggie’s backyard garden and tomatoes, here’s your chance.  Many kudos to Rick Hancock for choosing to keep it casual.

By Reggie Solomon

• A Connecticut tomato gardener at Compostings clips his early tomato blooms to keep his plants in good health.

• A mom growing tomatoes at Outer Banks Mom notes her tomatoes are at the “teasing” stage of growth.  I think we all know this stage

• Tomatoes fall off of rooftop garden and still live to see another day.  Roof gardeners Carrie and Lindsay Mariaare at Concrete Gardening share their tomato 911 experience.

• Ann at Redacted Recipes reminds celebrates tomato season and host of summer tomato recipes.

• Renee at Candy Stick Lane enjoys her first tomato sandwich of the summer!  Yes, tis the season

• And thanks to Tracy at Rah Cha Chow for an innovative tomato combination – who knew tomatoes and peanut butter go together?

By Reggie Solomon

• Kathy at I Wet My Plants designs a beautiful garden bed with 16 varieties of tomatoes.

• Carol at May Dream Gardens shares tomato growing tips learned from her father.

• Kathy at Skippy’s Vegetable Garden puts her tomato plants outside but worries about cutworms harming her plants.

• Carie at Concrete Gardening: Urban Gardening Without a Garden, gardens on a rooftop and begins to get her first tomato fruits.

By Michael Nolan

One doesn’t need to look very far to understand Our friend Ben’s love for all things tomato.

I have long held to the theory that tomato love is somehow embedded in the genetic code of all southerners, so it was no surprise to learn that OfB was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee.

From the super-secret headquarters in scenic Pennsylvania, I caught up with the elusive OfB and was able to fire off a few questions.

Who would have guess that what started with a cacti dish garden in the 6th grade would expand into the one-acre Hawk’s Haven, surrounded by Read the rest of this entry »

By Michael Nolan

Here at Tomato Casual there are so many wonderful regular visitors who make this site a warm and welcoming place for one and all.

This week I’m going to put the TC spotlight on one of our best and brightest — Debbie Middleton from Aunt Debbi’s Garden.

A self-described “forty-something” mommy gardener from North Texas, Deb’s blog is a never-ending journey through the loves of her life. As a wife and mother of three boys, two rabbits, two cats and a German Shepherd, I wonder Read the rest of this entry »

By Reggie Solomon

• Our Tomato Casual team is growing like cherry tomatoes in August! We welcome Thomas Cenci, our new Tomato Chef who will help us all enjoy this tender fruit all year long as he did this week with an original recipe for Tomato Beurre Blanc. We also welcome Vanessa Richins who with a bachelors degree in horticulture is helping us decode our beloved gardening catalogs.

• Our Friend Ben at Poor Richard’s Almanac Journal picks his top 10 tomato varieties for beauty, snacking, sandwiches and home green houses and responds to a reader’s question regarding why anyone would want to grow tomatoes rather than buy them at a store.

• Celebrity Chef, Niall Harbison at iFoods.tv, who has cooked up dishes for the likes of Victoria Beckham, Robbie Williams, Bill Gates, U2, Lance Armstrong and Mariah Carey stumbles across our site this week and encourages Tomato Casual readers to share tomato pics and recipe videos with the iFoods.tv community.

• Rodger at My Garden Is My Space, shares some useful tomato growing tips.

• Given that we love “Everything Tomato,” we of course found this site about spaghetti sauce of interest.

• This story at Daily Feed features hardcore tomato lovers lining up an hour before a big heirloom tomato seedling sale, prompting the question, “Are tomatoes the new iPhone?” But of course we all know cell phones and tomatoes don’t mix.