No fan of Bradford pears or butterfly bushes, the Master Gardener offers some better alternatives for your yard and the ...

Tomatoes are one of the most popular and versatile crops for gardeners, and you can still get a decent crop if you sow seed ...

Alicia Retes is coming to the Vallejo Springstowne Library this Saturday for Día de los Niños/Libros, telling the indigenous story of The Three Sisters plants through music and puppetry.

Huntsville’s Green Team invites the local community to celebrate Earth Month with the annual Spring Plant and Cleanup Supply ...

As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made ...

Tomatoes are very hungry plants and need to be fed the right nutrients in order to thrive. Ground to Ground founder Shane ...

Gardeners across the region are preparing or updating gardens and anticipating harvesting a bounty of homegrown goodness.

Cornflowers growing in a pot. Neil Hepworth Grow cornflower plants in sun and well-drained soil, sowing seed directly into weed-free ground or into pots, in spring. Thin out the resulting seedlings.

If you've got a bunch of beautiful young tomato plants, the last thing you probably want to do is cut them back, but it will get you more fruit in the long run. According to Tiffany Selvey, House ...

Transplanting tomato plants allows them to benefit from the full spectrum of natural sunlight and outdoor warmth and gives them room to expand their root systems. The spread of roots is made ...

Silicon powers more than electronics: In tomato plants, it fuels a complex defense system that could help farmers use fewer pesticides. Tomato plants on four continents are currently under attack ...