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

You’ll want to look at determinate versus indeterminate varieties. Determinate tomatoes grow quickly but stop their vertical growth at a specific height, generally around four feet tall. They tend to ...

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

It's almost impossible to get a great tomato in the dead of winter—unless, that is, you grow your own indoors. This year I'm ...

Tomato season is upon us with a tantalizing variety of easy to grow heirloom tomatoes in a range of colours, flavour, and ...

darker varieties. Cooking or processing tomatoes, such as in sauces or canned tomatoes, breaks down cell walls and makes lycopene easier for the body to absorb, boosting its health benefits even ...

But make sure each plant has its own space to grow. There are many different cherry tomato varieties, and there are also determinate and indeterminate tomato plants. Each kind requires specific plant ...

With proper care and perfect weather conditions, you can expect to get vine-ripened tomatoes right up until cold weather ...

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

For thousands of years, plant breeders have taken advantage of these variations to create high-yielding crop varieties. Two recent developments have changed the landscape ... Silencing the genes that ...

“It’s a continuous race against the evolution of new pathogens. We as humans want to eat a lot, but so do insects, birds, ...