Thousands of petunias, begonias, and tomato plants are now heading out to new homes thanks to an extremely popular local school’s plant sale.

One gardener found a natural way to keep worms away from tomato plants — and all it took was planting some marigolds.

Tomatoes are growing in popularity as a crop in Illinois. “It’s becoming a tomato state,” University of Illinois professor Mohammed Babadoost said. While Illinois is known as being the No. 1 state for ...