Garden centers and retail outlets are having a banner year selling vegetable transplants, especially tomato transplants. Both experienced and novice gardeners long for fresh, homegrown tomatoes. It ...

Peak tomato season — July through September here on the East Coast — is almost upon us, and the anticipation is palpable. Before we know it, those super sweet, juicy fruits, grown outdoors under the ...

At the pool I talked to a friend once again about her leggy tomatoes. Over the years I’ve noticed my memory isn’t what it should be. So, I need to be taking notes when I talk to people. My friend ...

Whether you’re an expert gardener or growing your very first crop, a greenhouse offers endless opportunities to grow plants ...

OWATONNA, Minn. -- If growing tomatoes for commercial distribution was as easy as a few bees, some fertilizer and several handfuls of seeds, it would not have taken more than two years for Jay Johnson ...

EXETER – Three years after portions of its gargantuan, 25-acre metal skeleton first rose over a local farm field, construction of the Schartner greenhouse project has yet to resume as the company ...

AN icy mixture of rain and sleet fell on the glass roof of Greenhouse Two at Backyard Farms here, but as its big blue door slid open and the warm, green, celery smell of tomato plants wafted out, it ...

No more ruining deli sandwiches–and no more shipping bad tomatoes across the country. MightyVine’s hydroponic technology produces ripe, red tomatoes, on land close to the city. “Until someone invents ...

It may sound like an oxymoron: a delicious local, winter tomato — especially if you happen to live in a cold climate. But increasingly, farmers from West Virginia to Maine and through the Midwest are ...

Webster, N.Y. - A proposal for a tomato greenhouse in the Town of Webster is getting some push back from the people who live nearby. Some neighbors say the reason they moved to the rural part of the ...

Kenya: Tucked in Machorwa village, Tulwet, Bureti Sub-County, is Peter Langat’s farm, which has attracted the attention of the community for years. He has been growing pineapples, bananas and ...