Hands picking tomatoes from container-grown plants - Dmitrii Marchenko/Getty Images Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are said to be among some of the easiest types of plants you can grow in a home ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A popular gardening competition on Staten Island is branching out this year, offering local growers more opportunities to showcase their green thumbs across 19 distinct ...

Tomatoes are the easiest fruit to grow and have the biggest return on your investment. The plants are easy to grow from seed and can produce hundreds of flowers. They readily self-seed, so many ...

Are we there yet? Like eager kids, gardeners have been asking local nurseries for starts of favorite tropicals since March. Where’s the basil? Why don’t you have any tomato plants? Ironically, these ...