Q. Help! Black Nightshade vine, with the purple flowers, has invaded my flower bed and is proving very hard to eliminate. I’m especially upset that it’s taken root at the base of my beloved David ...

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 ...

With various aspects of sowing the seed, sustaining the seedling and growing a determinate tomato plant discussed in earlier columns, we will now focus on the phase where the plant begins to approach ...

Anyone with a garden has likely seen a black nightshade at one time or another. In the words of Linda Roehm, who gardens in Lomita and sought its identity in an email with a photo, “Little white ...

If the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) is consumed by herbivores, the plant secretes a nectar directly from the wounds that attracts ants and thus protects the plant from further feeding ...