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

The celebrity tomato is a hybrid cultivar prized for its strong plants, disease and pest resistance, and robust production of ...

There are several soil diseases that affect different areas growing the tomatoes. Southern bacterial rot which is prevalent in our area where as Florida has to deal with Fusarium crown and root rot.

Since its introduction in 1975, Early Girl has remained one of the most popular tomato varieties among home gardeners, and ...

Aside from the red varieties stocked in grocery aisles, tomatoes come in other vibrant hues ranging from green to purple. These colours come mainly from carotenoids, pigments that are also potent ...

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is considered to be one of the most devastating diseases of wheat and barley worldwide. Multiple outbreaks of FHB have affected Delaware growers over the past decade, most ...

In First Fruit, Martineau, as a staff scientist working for the biotechnology startup Calgene (Davis, CA), provides an inside view of the development of the Flavr Savr tomato, the first ...

So often thought of as a summer vegetable fruit, tomatoes actually improve as the summer progresses, so tomatoes bought at the beginning of autumn will have a most intense flavour. The flavour ...