CHICAGO — WGN’s “Plant Daddy” Tim Joyce is back to share some weekend gardening tips, including the downsides of using banana peels as fertilizer, managing weeds safely, how to counteract herbicide ...

This week while out checking the garden, I noticed many of the youngest leaves on a few of my tomato plants were twisted and their leaf veins were growing into weird patterns. These telltale symptoms ...

That herbicide can remain in the manure for a year or more and can cause herbicide damage when used in the garden. If gardeners are using manure, they should have the conversation with the livestock ...

A couple of years ago in early summer, I visited my garden to admire my beautiful tomato and squash plants. I was devastated. All the new growth was twisty and stunted. On closer observation, some ...

Patsy Hirsch and her husband moved to an Elgin subdivision nearly three decades ago, drawn by a backyard thicket of oak, hickory and cherry trees so dense the canopy blotted out the sun. During her ...

With summer upon us, you're hopefully finding your vegetable plants in good health and in full production. It does seem this year that tomatoes are having a few growing problems. Foliar diseases have ...

A South Carolina nursery is closed after it was broken into and an herbicide was sprayed all over plants, causing an estimated $150,000 in damage. Martin Garden Center owner Reggie Meehan said someone ...