If you grow tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or other nightshades, there’s a good chance that you’ve encountered large green caterpillars feeding on your plants. Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, ...

Always clean and sharpen tools you won't be using for a while. It's a good idea to wipe the metal blades with an oily cloth. This coats them with a thin layer of protective oil to help prevent ...

Tomatoes are often the staple of any home vegetable garden and there are ample reasons why. The fruit (often mistakenly considered a vegetable) is tasty, relatively easy to grow and is a versatile ...

These buggars can do major damage to your tomato crop. Enlist all the help you can get to battle them! One day last July, my sister was looking closely at our tomato plants and noticed a great deal of ...

It sounds like you have tomato fruitworms to contend with in your garden. I haven’t seen these pests in the tomatoes in my garden at home (our dachshunds eating ripening tomatoes have been a bigger ...

Question for Dan Gill: Something is eating holes in my tomatoes. The holes are round and about one-half inch across. I'm also seeing holes in the leaves of my squash and tomatoes. What do you think is ...

Readers continue to chime in on tomato hornworms, including this handy trick for tracking the critters. “The article about tomato hornworms on Nov. 16 mentions picking them off the tomato plants to ...

CDFA announced Monday it has awarded more than $544,000 to control a costly tomato pest. Project leader Dr. Brian Hogg, of USDA, and collaborators will receive funding for “proactive classical ...