It may be cold outside right now, but it’s never too early to start planning for the gardening season. The Gates Garden Club ...

Gardening tips for tomatoes.

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without affecting the following year’s two crops. The first crop starts to grow in ...

The general rule is to start seeds about six-eight weeks before moving outside, to give the plants time to grow strong enough to be transplanted. By the numbers: Counting back eight weeks from March ...

Gardeners, here's a peck of suggestions for learning opportunities and yard activities you should add to your February calendar.

Learn when to water, which grasses can go dormant, how to use preemergent, and why aeration with compost boosts lawn health in drought.

Join Budget Girl and friends as they plant a square foot garden and build a DIY tomato cage with bamboo poles and twine for ...

It’s been a good tomato season this year, and reports are that tomatoes are replacing the venerable zucchini overload when it comes to giving produce away. But as we get into the end of September, and ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — With more time available for gardening in retirement, a New Brighton woman has found herself with an 8-foot-tall cherry tomato plant staking its claim in her yard, much like a ...

A man with a tan plaid shirt, holding a bunch of tomatoes that are green and red. - Mint Images/Getty Images Homegrown tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) are a delicious reward for the relatively small ...

This column is written by the UC Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions that recently came into the UC Master Gardener – Yolo County Help Desk. Question: ...