It's time to start working on managing pests in your fruit and landscape trees this year. Springtime is starting, even if it is delayed a bit from the normal timing. Given the huge differences in ...

[Celebrating seasonal holidays usually pulls us away from routine garden maintenance, often happily so, but as it happens winter holidays happen to coincide with a spray schedule for dormant fruit and ...

Are your garden plants stunted, shriveled, yellowing, or curling at the leaves, despite your best efforts to keep them alive? Check the undersides of the leaves, and you might find the culprit: large ...

Q: Most mornings, my pine tree is a gathering spot for a flock of twittering small finches. They poke and prod in the green needles and then, poof, they all leave in a rush. I have a watering dish set ...

After a few years of watching and waiting for a peach tree I planted to bear fruit, it finally did this year. Unfortunately, it was unable to produce during those first few years because of peach leaf ...

I'm always on the lookout for simple solutions to deter garden pests, and if they can be made at home, even better. So, when a DIY aphid-tackling spray fell onto my radar recently, I was intrigued – ...

Q: We really enjoyed your article about fruit trees. We have a 23-year-old mango tree which is about 15 feet tall and 15 feet wide, it definitely bears more fruit every other year. We have never ...