It began as a whim. I was visiting the local feed and seed store in September when I noticed an elderly gentleman intently examining the rows and rows of seed packets on a large rack. My mission was ...

Like yellow in tomatoes, blue in potatoes, purple in peppers and black in beans, red sets a lettuce apart. But unlike these other vegetables, red lettuces are not one color but many. Every hue of ...

I’d like to stay on the topic of trees from last week, but today, I’d like to address the fairly common issue in this area of when red oak leaves turn yellow. If you have this happening in your yard, ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Each spring the PPDL receives several samples of oak trees showing curled, twisted, stunted and/or generally ratty looking leaves. When there are holes in the leaves or leaf ...

Northern red oaks, quercus rubra, are, to me, the cardinals of the oak world: easy to identify. These are beautiful majestic oak trees with rough, furrowed bark. The furrows reveal pale, sometimes ...

You don’t have to hunt deer for very long to realize that oak trees and the acorns they drop each fall are hugely important to deer. If fact, most hunters know that the majority oak trees fall into ...