Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in ...

WITH DERBY SEASON UPON US, OUR AREA IS A VERY EXCITING BUT BUSY PLACE AT THE MOMENT, AND HERMITAGE FARM IS NO EXCEPTION. OUR SAM CARTER GOT OUT TODAY TO DISCOVER SOMETHING YOU CAN DO IF YOU NEED A ...

“A world without tomatoes,” the novelist Laurie Colwin once wrote, “is like a string quartet without violins.” Taking a somewhat more scientific turn, master gardener Deborah Benoit has written, ...

At first glance, Orobanche ramosa looks like an interesting blossoming plant, one that could add a unique flair to flower arrangements. But it’s a parasitic weed that attaches to roots, sucks out ...

Harvest robots are proving capable of cutting truss tomatoes, although crop characteristics and growing conditions are ...

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HOLLISTON — By his own admission, local farmer Peter MacArthur was going to struggle to pay the inflated cost of oil to heat his greenhouse this past winter and early spring. So he decided to begin ...

Recently, I was visiting my sister at Wrightsville Beach and we were invited to a tomato tasting party. Because I love tomatoes, I was looking forward to attending this summer party. When we arrived, ...

Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight ...