Are nightshades a dietary no-no? Celebs like Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady eschew these veggies, which include things like tomatoes and potatoes. Some wellness experts, too, recommend steering clear.

Two tiny tomatillo fossils have kicked the origin of nightshade plants back to the age of dinosaurs. The fossils, pressed into 52-million-year-old rock, suggest that the nightshade family originated ...

Are nightshades a dietary no-no? Celebs like Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady eschew these veggies, which include things like tomatoes and potatoes. Some wellness experts, too, recommend steering clear.

Q: Nightshade plants began growing in the same raised bed as tomatoes. Will the nightshade poison the soil in the raised bed? After we dig out the nightshade plants, do we need to replace the soil ...

Q: The plant in the photo was growing in our garden. Can you identify it? - Mary Denis, Harwood, N.D. A: It must be a good year for nightshade, based on the number of people who found it popping up in ...

Nature is, it’s often said, red in tooth and claw. But sometimes a claw scratches someone’s back in return for a symbiotic scratch of one’s own. Ants provide many examples of such mutually beneficial ...

Greenhouse, growth chamber, and winter survival studies were conducted at Stoneville, MS from 1996 to 2002 to determine growth, time to first flower, and winter survival of wetland nightshade. At 12 ...

If you grow tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, or other nightshades, there’s a good chance that you’ve encountered large green caterpillars feeding on your plants. Known as the tobacco or tomato hornworm, ...

A reader called to describe a new plant in her yard to see whether I could identify it without seeing it. Her description was not only a good one but hard to mistake for something else, if you have ...

Have you noticed any black nightshade in your corn stalks that you are grazing or plan to graze? If these fields have too much black nightshade, be careful, it might be toxic. Black nightshade is ...