Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in ...

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Niba visits Raleigh City Farm to learn about cross-breeding and growing dwarf tomatoes for urban gardens. Niba also speaks with Dr. Zachary Lippman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who is using ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are evaluating the physiological traits and environmental conditions associated with successful dry-farmed tomato production to better equip West Coast farmers to adapt to a ...

For a simple tomato that you can grow in record time in your garden, look no further than this miniature variety full of ...

Smiling faces filled Jefferson Farm and Garden on Thursday for the 20th year of the Tomato Festival. University of Missouri students worked over the past nine months to grow 194 varieties of tomatoes ...

REEDLEY, Calif. — Amber Balakian remembers growing up on the family farm — going to farmers markets, playing in the irrigated rows of vegetables and eating fresh produce right off the vine. “My ...

A tomato farmer on his farm in Nyeri. Continuous use of pesticides can be harmful to pollinating insects. It is therefore advisable that you select chemicals that are least harmful to these insects.