Once you have your theme and menu, Gilony says that "most items can be prepared in advance and kept in the fridge until it’s ...

Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the ...

If you want to save your pelargonium geraniums for another year, you've got three different ways to overwinter these cheerful ...

Want to keep tender herbs, annuals, and veggies alive through winter, but don’t have a lot of space indoors for growing plants? Taking cuttings of your favorite plants in fall and rooting them either ...

This beginners guide shows how to transplant a tomato plant from one garden bed to another with tips on how this can be done at minimal risk to the tomato plant so it has the best chance to do well in ...

One of gardening’s best secrets is that it’s fairly easy to produce your own free new plants by persuading cut branch tips to grow roots. A surprising number of trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses, fruit ...

Just when I thought my volunteer cherry tomato plant would continue to thrive into its second year, it became infested with spider mites and had to be removed. Last September, it had sprouted in the ...

If your garden is ever running low on tomatoes, don't go running to the store for seeds. It's much easier than you think to cultivate more plants from what you already have at home. TikTok user Velina ...

Tomato plants possess a sophisticated system to protect themselves against herbivores: the signaling peptide Systemin triggers a cascade of plant defense responses. A research team from the University ...

I was reading a gardening magazine recently, which proclaimed that September is the most productive month in the garden. With veggies basically jumping into our harvest baskets, there’s little arguing ...

Interbreeding between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 8-9 million years ago gave rise to the modern-day potato (Solanum tuberosum); this ancient evolutionary event ...