RUTLEDGE (WATE) – The Grainger County Tomato Festival kicks off Thursday. There will be music and activities at the event. But why do so many Americans love the plant that was once called a “love ...

• Fruit or vegetable? Botanically speaking, a fruit. Horticulturally (and legally), a vegetable. In 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court legally classified the tomato as a vegetable because it is used as one.

Creole tomatoes are not a particular cultivar. When farmers in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes called their tomatoes Creole, it meant they were grown in the rich alluvial soil of the area and ...

Medically reviewed by Marisa Moore, RDN, MBAMedically reviewed by Marisa Moore, RDN, MBA Have you ever wondered if a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable? Botanists classify tomatoes as fruit because they ...

Ninety-five percent of the 29 million U.S. home gardeners who plant vegetables grow tomatoes. They average six plants, which yield about 45 tomatoes per plant. Every man, woman and child consumes ...

Proctor School’s “Big Tomato Day” resumed this year with a virtual presentation and the distribution of tomato plants to the fifth graders. The Topsfield Garden Club has been sponsoring this ...

Janet Kiddoo, a plant lover in Northridge, sent an email regarding a new innovation in tomato growing. Through conventional plant breeding methods — with no GMO (genetically modified organism) ...

Q. We are growing tomato plants in pots and have a plant that is not looking good at all. The stems are turning a dark grey color and the leaf veins are turning grey as well. After a while, the leaves ...

China’s exports of tomato paste to industry powerhouse Italy have collapsed this year after an outcry over alleged use of ...

• Fruit or vegetable? Botanically speaking, a fruit. Horticulturally (and legally), a vegetable. In 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court legally classified the tomato as a vegetable because it’s used as one. ...