Heat-loving watermelons can be grown outdoors in warmer climates or in a greenhouse in areas that don’t reach those same high temperatures naturally. Wherever you grow watermelon, you strive for them ...

From inconsistent watering to garden pests. Homegrown tomatoes taste like nothing else and add bold color to the garden. But it is frustrating when they don't grow the right way. One common issue you ...

Crop protection refers to everything growers use to keep insects, weeds and plant diseases from destroying their crops. That ...

A new AI-driven sensing platform that can detect crop stress before symptoms appear is being hailed as a major breakthrough ...

A honey bee-killing parasite has been detected in the state's Fleurieu Peninsula and at a second location in the Limestone Coast. The latest discovery follows last week's detection at Salt Creek.

Just when I thought my volunteer cherry tomato plant would continue to thrive into its second year, it became infested with spider mites and had to be removed. Last September, it had sprouted in the ...

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 ...

Yes, this is a hornworm. And yes, it looks a lot like a tomato worm or a tobacco worm. And lucky for this hornworm, it doesn’t feast on tomato leaves. It eats the leaves of several native plants, ...