There are few crops more satisfying to harvest than fresh homegrown tomatoes; it is one of the reasons why they are top of many people’s favorite crops to grow at home. So it is important to do ...

Q: We have 17 very healthy-looking tomato plants that have a total of 93 tomatoes on them so far. However, we are seeing little red spiders on the undersides of the leaves. Perhaps they are spider ...

Q: For the past two years I have fought either spider mites or whiteflies on my tomato plants. I have tried home remedies and everything the nursery has recommended, including neem oil. They end up ...

Area gardeners should be close to harvesting tomatoes. Some already may be harvesting cherry tomatoes or larger tomatoes affected by blossom-end rot. There are a number of issues to consider now to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Midsummer in Colorado means blooms, bugs and bursts of rain. Pay attention to all three, and your landscape should have a great rest of the summer. WEATHER ...

Growing a vegetable garden is plenty of work on its own without worrying that your efforts will be ruined by hungry pests. One of the crops where this is the biggest concern is tomatoes, which attract ...

Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) acts as the elicitor molecule of the RNA silencing (RNA interference, RNAi), the endogenous and evolutionary conserved surveillance system present in all eukaryotes. DsRNAs ...

A pest known for damaging tomato plants and other crops has been detected in New Zealand for the first time. Biosecurity New Zealand said two populations of the tomato red spider mite (Tetranychus ...