If you grow tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or other nightshades, there’s a good chance that you’ve encountered large green caterpillars feeding on your plants. Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, ...

Tomatoes are often the staple of any home vegetable garden and there are ample reasons why. The fruit (often mistakenly considered a vegetable) is tasty, relatively easy to grow and is a versatile ...

Always clean and sharpen tools you won't be using for a while. It's a good idea to wipe the metal blades with an oily cloth. This coats them with a thin layer of protective oil to help prevent ...

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 ...

Readers continue to chime in on tomato hornworms, including this handy trick for tracking the critters. “The article about tomato hornworms on Nov. 16 mentions picking them off the tomato plants to ...

Vestaron Corporation is a leading agricultural biotechnology company specialising in the development of peptide-based crop protection products. The tomato leafminer has been known to cause yield ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Garden pests are a part of life in gardens. In the heat of mid-summer bugs reach peak populations and plants are often stressed out from the hot weather. It’s often a fatal ...