Crops are starting to grow faster with warmer temperatures, following a cool and wet spring, with rapid nutrient uptake and ...

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Use a watering can if you are doing a soil drench, and water close to the base of each plant. If you spray on the plant ...

Freeze-dried foods first made their way into space during NASA’s Gemini Program, designed to sustain astronauts on missions ...

Be sure not to leave your orchid in the same pot for too long as the roots can easily become suffocated and rot due to ...

Also, keeping natural predators in your garden as well. Garter snakes, frogs and toads, salamanders, turtles all have snails ...

Gardeners are being urged to use a spoonful of sugar water in their gardens this month as the hot weather returns again. Hot sunny weather had disappeared again in the past week, but in the coming ...

Beleaguered by bitter pit, ‘Honeycrisp’ growers again scrutinize their Calcium treatment levels and distribution.

Char four pigeon carcasses, onions, garlic, carrot, celery, leeks in duck fat or oil or good, salty grass-fed butter. Throw ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but school gardens can offer students fertile ground to learn about technology, from using ...

Perennials. Tall slipper plant (Pedilanthus bracteatus) is a highly drought-tolerant selection from Mexica whose bracts are suggestive of Dorothy’s footwear in “The Wizard of Oz.” These bracts are ...