Protect both yourself and your tomatoes from this nasty critter by using row covers over your plants. If you do spot blister beetles — which are black, gray, or red — then be sure to wear gloves when ...

Sadly, they also draw in quite a few cutworms that eat through the foliage, leaving the plant in tatters. The quickest way to ...

some cheap imported tomatoes are grown under polytunnels, picked under-ripe, then artificially ripened with ethylene gas, a plant hormone. Sun-warmed tomatoes picked straight from the vine are ...

While there’s limited scientific support for sound improving plant health, there’s a growing amount of evidence about the benefits of mechanical stimulation, like touch, wind or rain. Researchers ...

Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables to grow, and if you want to pick the biggest, tastiest crop it’s essential to feed your plants. Using a good liquid feed will give you sweet, ripe ...

There are two types of tomatoes — plants that grow in a bush and plants that cascade (which need staking). The bush varieties are self-supporting (no staking needed), produce early in the ...

Perfection Fresh says it will cut jobs due to the impact of a virus that has been detected in its tomato plants. The company is one of three businesses hit by tomato brown rugose fruit virus in ...

Have you ever attempted to slice and dice a bunch of tomatoes for a recipe and ended up with a big pulpy mess? Chowhound recipe developer Miriam Hahn felt your pain and pulled together some tips ...

Italian tomato purée is the most acclaimed variety. For the best flavour, buy tomato purée in jars rather than cans or tubes. There is also a ‘double concentrated’ version of purée ...

Australia's tomato supply chain is bracing for disruption and potential price hikes, while hundreds of jobs have already been lost, following the discovery of an exotic plant virus that has ...

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Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...