Gardening

Can you tell me why my tomatoes crack? I water regularly and fertilize with tomato spikes. Otherwise, the plants look healthy. We had the same problem last year, so we changed the variety, but it didn't help. I would appreciate if you could help me....

“Use your head first to rid your vegetable garden of weeds, not your hoe,” says longtime garden-to-table expert Kath LaLiberte. “First you need to know how weeds are getting into your garden,” she says. “Then you can build...

As a boy, Abdi Hassen helped his father nurture and harvest maize, wheat and tropical fruits — until the early 1990s, when his father vanished. "He was disappeared because of his political opinion. I don't know if he is alive or not now," said...

Cosmetics maker Revlon Inc. said it will close two of its plants, located in Maryland and France, and move those operations to reduce costs, cutting 250 jobs. Revlon, whose stock has lost a tenth of its value this year, said it will also reduce the...

Let's hear it for flowers! As a garden writer, on the speaking circuit I often ask audiences why they garden. More often than not, from guys anyway, the response I get is: if I can't eat it, I don't grow it. All the more reason why I was pleasantly...

The winter landscape is full of kinetic sculpture, swaying, swishing, fluttering, rattling. There's drama in the dried stalks, leaves and seed heads of last summer, if we don't rush to tidy them away. Seed heads are the stars. They are far more than just...

For the dozens of years Barbara Wise has been gardening for herself and others as well as teaching and writing about gardening, she has watched plant lovers make the same mistakes. They pick sun-loving annuals, then stick them in the shade. Put...

A recent gathering of “Master Oyster Gardeners” at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science is the latest chapter in a fruitful partnership between VIMS scientists and members of the Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association, or TOGA, according...

High levels of plant nitrate-N can be toxic to livestock and are especially prevalent in plants under stress such as drought. How does fertilizer nitrogen rate influence plant nitrate-N under very dry conditions? The drought conditions at the SE...

Probably without realizing it, many Orlando-area residents have seen through their car windshields the evidence of a dramatic shift in Florida's energy appetite: Rail crossings aren't as tied up with as many coal trains lately. When it comes to...

Sometimes, in an urban setting, like on my own patio, there’s just no room to garden—unless you try something that’s trending in gardening and that’s gardening vertically. With these two particular boxes I’m able to grow a...

4-H Home Arts Grand Champions Indoor gardening — Skyla Heise Vegetable gardening — Andrew Miller Science — Lilli Sutton Health and safety — Skyla Heise Small pets — Abby McDougal Alpaca — Abigail Roberts Junior crafts...