Tomato-planting season is in full swing and we have a few simple tips to make sure you get the best harvest from your plants. Landscape designer and Home & Gardens columnist Marcia Westcott Peck and ...

Recently, I was visiting my sister at Wrightsville Beach and we were invited to a tomato tasting party. Because I love tomatoes, I was looking forward to attending this summer party. When we arrived, ...

Q: I like to grow heirloom varieties of tomatoes but the last few years I have had issues with several tomato diseases in my garden beds. I have purchased grafted tomato plants that have done very ...

In a climate where most plants sprint, tomatoes loiter. We prod. We beg. Hardly ever do we give up. Tomatoes just do that to a person. No longer does our dedication have to lead to disappointment. A ...

If your garden is not big enough for the fruit tree you’d like, this technique may be the answer. It’s handy for healing snapped stems, too ...

In many of the seed catalogs arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock. Tomatoes seem to be the ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a new plant grafting technique that yields more robust and vigorous progeny. The research team, including scientists from Penn State, the University of ...

Please identify this flowering plant. It cascades very prettily over a retaining wall I pass every day, and I’m amazed to see it blooming in winter. Winter jasmine not only flowers very early, but its ...

Novel grafted plants -- consisting of rootstock epigenetically modified to 'believe' it has been under stress -- joined to an unmodified scion, or above-ground shoot, give rise to progeny that are ...

Nothing quite compares to the flavor of a homegrown, vine-ripened tomato, but producing these tasty fruits comes with certain challenges. Tomatoes are susceptible to numerous diseases and ...