Tomatoes often top the list of plants people want to grow, but lately, more gardeners are stepping away from them.

Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in ...

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Niba visits Raleigh City Farm to learn about cross-breeding and growing dwarf tomatoes for urban gardens. Niba also speaks with Dr. Zachary Lippman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who is using ...

Most cherry tomatoes are indeterminate and will need regular pruning and removal of “suckers.” Cherry tomato plants don’t ...

For a simple tomato that you can grow in record time in your garden, look no further than this miniature variety full of ...

A tomato farmer on his farm in Nyeri. Continuous use of pesticides can be harmful to pollinating insects. It is therefore advisable that you select chemicals that are least harmful to these insects.

REEDLEY, Calif. — Amber Balakian remembers growing up on the family farm — going to farmers markets, playing in the irrigated rows of vegetables and eating fresh produce right off the vine. “My ...