EXETER – Three years after portions of its gargantuan, 25-acre metal skeleton first rose over a local farm field, construction of the Schartner greenhouse project has yet to resume as the company ...

However, you can still grow in a greenhouse. February is the perfect time to get started on late spring transplants, and it’s also a good time to grow quick-maturing crops for the early spring market.

EXETER – The next few weeks will be pivotal in determining whether farmer Tim Schartner will be growing tomatoes next summer in his proposed million-square-foot greenhouse or if the vanguard project, ...

At the pool I talked to a friend once again about her leggy tomatoes. Over the years I’ve noticed my memory isn’t what it should be. So, I need to be taking notes when I talk to people. My friend ...

Peak tomato season — July through September here on the East Coast — is almost upon us, and the anticipation is palpable. Before we know it, those super sweet, juicy fruits, grown outdoors under the ...

With tariffs pushing prices up, a Cincinnati greenhouse shares how home gardening can keep fresh tomatoes—and cash — in your pocket. With tariffs pushing prices up, a Cincinnati greenhouse shares how ...

For years, the reddest thing consumers found in the supermarket's tomato section in the dead of winter was the face of a produce department manager embarrassed by the sorry state of selection. No ...

Greenhouse tomatoes are a crime against humanity. Ask any foodie — the ideal tomato is grown outdoors in the finest soil; it matures throughout the early and midsummer, just in time for harvest before ...

Researchers collected physicochemical and sensory data in studies investigating the effect of supplemental light quantity and quality on greenhouse-grown tomatoes. Supplemental intracanopy LED ...

It may sound like an oxymoron: a delicious local, winter tomato — especially if you happen to live in a cold climate. But increasingly, farmers from West Virginia to Maine and through the Midwest are ...

AN icy mixture of rain and sleet fell on the glass roof of Greenhouse Two at Backyard Farms here, but as its big blue door slid open and the warm, green, celery smell of tomato plants wafted out, it ...