In the home garden, aphids may be held in check by a number of natural predators, including lady beetles, minute pirate bugs, ...

Pests are an unfortunate pitfall of many home gardening efforts, but you can smartly set yourself up for success by planting ...

By Shelby Carroll N.C. Cooperative Extension Tomatoes are one of the most popular garden vegetables in North Carolina, and for good reason — they’re versatile, rewarding and delicious. However, ...

These are pests of the cool, wet times of spring and early summer. They hang out in moist, mulched beds and they come out to ...

Pests love eating plants, especially tomatoes. Planting these flowers next to your tomatoes will repel all the bugs that want ...

Expert share everything to plant in the garden in June, plus every single gardening job to tick off during the month.

Chad Smith and his family have owned this Steele, Alabama, tomato farm for more than half of a century. He claims this ...

Other great companions for tomatoes include peppers, spinach, lettuce and carrots, which all contribute to thriving tomato plants. The RHS added: "Companions can give added health to their ...

To help with your spring plant-selecting, here's a collection of plants that have won assorted awards for the 2025 growing season.

They are much smaller, with red or orange and black bodies and black legs ... “It makes the tomato not palatable.” Leaf-footed bugs typically appear when tomato plants begin to bloom. That’s when Keck ...