Growing tomatoes is universally popular, and every grower envisions healthy plants laden with lots of flowers and fruits.

For some smart companion planting, consider pairing your homegrown tomato plant with this classic herb for a tasty and beneficial growing relationship.

Prevention: Prevent aphids from attacking your tomatoes by introducing ladybugs and lacewings to your garden, as these insects eat aphids. Treatment: Spray your tomato plants with a sharp stream ...

“These bugs will ... particularly bad and out of control, they can ultimately cause the plant to die.” Tomatoes are a popular crop to grow at home, but as Wilson explains, “Tomato hornworms ...

You cannot always be right, but making the right decisions can be a matter of life or death for plants when facing pests in ...

Natural strategies work best in combatting pests such as Colorado potato beetles, striped cucumber beetles, slugs and tomato ... assassin bug, but they are relentless killers of bad bugs, sucking ...

Homegrown tomato lovers, beware. A sneaky pest may be lurking in your garden, which could be why your fruit turns tough, ...

Q. This bug, which I don’t recall ever seeing in my 30+ years of gardening in the northeastern San Fernando Valley, was all over my tomato plants this past summer. My questions are: What is it ...

livestock or plants. Unfortunately, the harmful bugs are the ones we talk about the most. Think mosquitos, termites, ticks, bed bugs, cockroaches, fleas and others in the rogue’s gallery of bad ...

He added that too much salt can have bad outcomes ... to the tomato fruitworm, the team noted. The researchers found that increased salt also changed how the plants smell to these insects.