About Don Nicholas

Don Nicholas

Don Nicholas serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network and GreenPrints. He is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. Don and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches.

Articles by Don Nicholas

Cheers to My Personal Tomato Favorites

Cheers to My Personal Tomato Favorites

Every tomato gardener eventually reaches a point where the question changes. It’s no longer, “Can I grow tomatoes?” It becomes, “Which tomatoes do I always want in my garden?” This chapter is my  …
Troubleshooting Tomatoes with Confidence

Troubleshooting Tomatoes with Confidence

Even after everything you’ve learned—about soil, water, pruning, pests, flavor, and timing—there will be moments when a tomato plant looks at you and says, “Something’s not right.” That doesn’t mean you’ve  …
Tomato Wisdom A to Z

Tomato Wisdom A to Z

Every tomato season teaches lessons that don’t always fit neatly into chapters about soil, watering, pests, or harvests. They’re the quiet truths you learn while tying up vines at dusk. The shortcuts  …
Boosting Yield Without Sacrificing Flavor

Boosting Yield Without Sacrificing Flavor

There comes a moment—usually right around midsummer—when every tomato gardener asks the same question: How do I get more tomatoes… without turning them bland, watery, or forgettable? Because here’s the hard truth: It’s  …
Saving Seeds and Carrying the Season Forward

Saving Seeds and Carrying the Season Forward

Every tomato season ends the same way—plants pulled, beds cleaned, tools washed—but for attentive gardeners, something important remains. Potential. Inside every ripe tomato is next year’s garden, quietly waiting. Seed saving isn’t  …
A Full-Year Tomato Growing Roadmap

A Full-Year Tomato Growing Roadmap

Every great tomato season actually begins months before a single seed touches soil. It begins in winter—when catalogs arrive, plans take shape, and gardeners convince themselves that this will be the  …
Tomatoes for Salads, Sandwiches, and Snacking

Tomatoes for Salads, Sandwiches, and Snacking

Some tomatoes are destined for jars and freezers. Others never make it past the garden gate. These are the tomatoes that get eaten standing up, juice running down your wrist, before you’ve  …
Tomatoes for Sauces, Canning, and Preserving

Tomatoes for Sauces, Canning, and Preserving

There’s a moment every tomato gardener knows well. You walk into the kitchen carrying what you think is a reasonable harvest… and realize you now own far more tomatoes than any household  …
Harvesting Tomatoes at the Perfect Moment

Harvesting Tomatoes at the Perfect Moment

Harvesting tomatoes looks simple—until you’ve grown them yourself. That’s when you realize there’s a narrow window between: Too early Too late Just right And that window moves depending on variety, weather, and  …
Growing Tomatoes for Flavor

Growing Tomatoes for Flavor

If you ask gardeners why they grow tomatoes, they’ll say things like freshness, abundance, or self-reliance. But if you listen carefully—really carefully—you’ll hear the truth underneath it all: They’re chasing flavor. Not  …