Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woman picking cherry tomatoes from garden - Supersizer/Getty Images A tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum) can be an attractive ...

Picking tomatoes is a gardener’s delight: ripe tomatoes smell amazing and can be so inviting that you won’t be able to resist taking a bite from one straight off the vine. If you live in a warm ...

A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This ...

Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in odd angles. Leaves hide what you need to see. For farmers facing labor ...

Knowing when to pick tomatoes is simple. All you have to do is wait until the fruits are fully red (or purple, or yellow, or whatever color tomatoes you’re growing). Right? Well, maybe not. Here’s ...

, March 18 -- Researchers have developed an AI-powered robot that can harvest tomatoes more efficiently by deciding the best way to pick each fruit.

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After a lovely winter break, I returned to the office with a stack of seed catalogs begging me to order more seeds. Despite having hundreds of seed packets, I find it hard to throw them away. Indeed, ...

Growing fresh produce for the picking doesn't always mean having a "French Intensive" vegetable garden, a square-foot garden or an acre truck farm. Porches, patios and decks are becoming the vegetable ...

A tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum) can be an attractive addition to any home garden. Both container and ground plants produce interesting green foliage of varying shapes, as well as pretty yellow ...