There's no one-size-fits-all approach to growing tomatoes. Here's how to figure out whether containers or in-ground beds are ...

Tomatoes are the easiest fruit to grow and have the biggest return on your investment. The plants are easy to grow from seed ...

New work by Alex Cantó-Pastor (left) and Professor Siobhan Brady, Department of Plant Biology, shows how tomato plants protect themselves from drought by waterproofing their roots. The findings could ...

If you're an observant gardener you may have noticed small bumps on your tomato plant stems.Those bumps are the buds of adventitious roots, also known as aerial roots. Adventitious roots can form ...

When water supplies are low, tomato roots produce suberin—the molecule that gives wine corks and waxy potato skins their water-repellent qualities—to control water flow.

Lastly, tomato plants love to grow their roots deep into the earth, to absorb as many nutrients from the soil as possible. It may look like the plant only has a few roots at the very end, but ...

Acidic soils pose a major threat to crop yields due to toxic aluminum ions, especially in sensitive plants like tomato. A new ...

Will tomato plants root in water? When removed correctly, tomato suckers will root in water after around two weeks. 'If using water, change it every few days to prevent bacterial growth,' explains ...

2. In Soggy Soil Slow-draining soil presents a host of problems for tomato plants. Root growth is comprised in the dense soil which leads to limited shoot growth and fruit.

Tomato roots will only grow once the soil temperatures reach around 65 to 70 degrees, usually occurring naturally in mid-May. Remember, it is the root development that drives the top growth.

One year I helped my grandparents plant tomatoes. “I don’t know what you did with those tomato plants,” my grandfather said, “but this is the best darn harvest we’ve ever had.” Here ...

To cope with drought, plant roots produce a water-repellent polymer called suberin that blocks water from flowing up towards the leaves, where it would quickly evaporate.