Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Until someone invents a robot that can gauge which leaves to pluck off and when, there’s going to be a strong human element in tomato growing.” BY Eillie Anzilotti A few years ago, as a food industry ...

The vines are 15 feet long right now, on their way to 50. As food banks across Dallas strive to feed thousands ravaged by the recessed economy, volunteers at the Soulfood Greenhouse are working hard ...

BISMARCK-Great River Energy will likely decide by July whether it could profitably power a greenhouse on the grounds of its Coal Creek Station coal-fired power plant that could supply tomatoes that ...

Like most young hustlers, Darius Cheruiyot of Silibwet, Bomet County has tried his hand in almost everything, from being a mechanic to a driver and a boda boda man. But none of those ventures given ...

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 ...

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 ...

Move your potted citruses and other weather-sensitive plants into the greenhouse for protection. In the late winter, usually ...