I feel like spring is slipping away from me; a few of my gardens are still under leaves. At least my cool-season vegetables are planted and the onions are ready for their first fertilizer of the year.

Tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) may be a garden favorite, but they are notoriously picky about their neighbors. Making sure plants that are close together benefit each other can make or break your ...

Since April, readers have been asking why their tomato plants looked so funky. Seriously, people! Tomatoes are heat loving tropical plants. If you haven’t planted tomatoes yet, it’s not too late; they ...

COLUMBUS — Jerry Nissen and Katherine Locke have cultivated their friendship for more than 30 years. Both are plant lovers, and Nissen, now retired, holds a degree in horticulture. This year the two ...

For gardeners who start their own tomato plants, March is time to get busy. There are several good reasons for starting tomatoes from seed: Economy: You can grow a lot more tomatoes from seed for the ...

Summer time means delicious vegetables and it is not too late to plant a few vegetable plants for your own enjoyment. There is nothing that taste better than fresh tomatoes that are vine ripe that you ...

On March 24, at the Siouxland Garden Show, Patrick O’Malley, a longtime Iowa State University Extension & Outreach Commercial Horticulture Field Specialist, will be talking about two diverse ...