Don't put away your gardening gloves the minute frost hits. Your blueberry plants still need winter protection. Follow these ...
Mild frost heaving can usually be remedied by gently pressing the base of plants back into the soil with your foot. However, if plant crowns and roots are completely exposed, you may need to add ...
Spring planting in mulch helps control weeds, including reducing the need to weed as much. Few weeds will come up through a 4-inch layer of hay. In spring we plant several crops into hay mulch to help ...
Cool month is ideal for adding bare root deciduous fruit trees, vines, roses and shrubs — and harvesting citrus ...
Celeste Scott plants in different types of mulch and Joellen Dimond talks about diseases of annuals. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Horticulture Specialist ...
Great mulches for winter include bark chips, shredded bark, straw, evergreen boughs and other loose, coarse-textured organic materials. (Rick Wetherbee) For many gardeners, mulch is as common place in ...
When it comes to covers for your garden soil, pine straw may be right. You'll only know for sure once you've compared it to ...
Q: We won’t move to Las Vegas until after June 1, and I am excited about using a raised bed. I’m guessing that’s too late to start a salsa garden, so what are my options? Wait until next spring?
There are three areas in gardening and landscaping that mistakes are often made. Planting, mulching and watering seem like simple chores, but when they are not done correctly plants often suffer.
Come April, garden-lovers are usually most excited about all the things they can plant — everything from fast-growing flower seeds to flowers that grow from bulbs you can plant in spring. Those are ...