Vegetable gardeners everywhere look forward to harvesting tomatoes each summer. But one pest that can ruin the fruits of your labor (literally) is the tomato hornworm. The caterpillars feast on the ...

While squirrels, deer and woodchucks are generally the most destructive consumers of garden tomatoes on Staten Island nowadays, the caterpillars known as hornworms pose a more subtle threat. The ...

A reader of our column from Ashland dropped me an email about these huge green worms in her garden a number of years ago and wondered what she could do about them. She pulled five off her plants and ...

I saw your recent column about tomato fruitworms, and was wondering if this pest also eats leaves. The leaves of one of my tomato plants are being eaten by something. A couple of the branches now have ...

The tomato hornworm that so many gardeners detest has a beautiful future if we let it be. After a winter spent underground and when it is done with metamorphosis, it will become one of the loveliest ...

Tomatoes are one of the easiest plants to grow in your garden. There are several varieties, but whichever you choose to go with, you can generally count on a decent harvest if you give them proper ...