You can start tomatoes from seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before the last frost date in your area. Use seed-starting trays ...

Thewlis recommends bush tomatoes for a home gardener growing their tomatoes in pots. “These tomato plants exhibit a compact, shrub-like stature reaching a height of three feet. Their stout, upright ...

University of Illinois entomology professor Esther Ngumbi is purposely flooding tomatoes to see how they might respond to ...

Growing plants in containers is great if you have limited space and/or crummy soil, but the downside is that you have to be ...

Don’t throw away the cut stems! There’s still plenty of good you can do with them. ...

This time of year, gardeners everywhere are deciding what to do about all the end-of-season tomatoes that aren't ready to be ...

Harvesting and drying your backyard pot plants doesn't need to be complicated. Here are four easy pointers to help you ...

Tomatoes, a staple crop worldwide, are increasingly threatened by biotic stressors such as viruses, fungi, and bacteria, with ...

Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin gives advice about gardening in Florida including dollarweed, tomatoes, basketgrass, avocado trees ...

Plants and other organisms evolve naturally over time. When random changes to their DNA, called mutations, enhance survival, ...

A geneticist recently discovered the gene that accounts for prickliness across a variety of plants, including roses.

As any avid gardener will tell you, plants with sharp thorns and prickles can leave you looking like you’ve had a run-in with ...