One vendor’s dispute against a 19th-century import tariff led the U.S. Supreme Court to classify the tomato as a vegetable. But botanists disagree.

As global temperatures continue to rise, extreme heat waves pose a significant threat to agricultural productivity. Studies ...

March is prime time for SoCal gardeners who love to grow tomatoes, with three specialty growers having pop-up sales of hard-to-find tomato varieties.

Tomatoes have a general recommendation to space each plant 24 to 36 inches apart in each row. Your rows of planted tomato ...

Growing seeds inside also requires more of an investment because you'll need proper lighting and containers and such. It also ...

Hard frosts will quickly kill tomato seedlings, but the air temperature isn’t the only factor to consider when determining when to plant your tomatoes outdoors. The soil temperature is equally ...

Tomato plant health can be significantly influenced by their common neighbouring plants. While excellent companion plants that can fend off pests and strengthen health exist, some are detrimental ...

Tomato plants are sensitive to cold temperatures. Tomatoes should be planted in late spring after the threat of frost has passed. Wait until soil temperature consistently measures above 60°F.

This means that there can be quite fundamental change in a plant over millions of years, which is quite a short timescale in evolutionary terms.” Introducing the changes that increase the size of beef ...