Put fall leaves to work in your landscape. This valuable resource makes a great mulch in planting beds, adds organic matter and nutrients to the soil, provides habitat for many beneficial insects and ...

A practical guide to blending fruits, vegetables, and herbs with ornamental plants in Indian gardens to boost freshness, ...

Sawdust is only as garden-safe as its source. Clean, untreated wood is fine, but dust from painted, stained, pressure-treated ...

Explore the garden after dark!

Before winter closes in, do one last thing for all the trees, shrubs and other plants in your garden: Make sure they have a cozy layer of mulch over their roots. “Spread it flat and even, like a ...

If you have a yard full of fallen leaves every autumn, you’re not alone. Instead of bagging them up for trash day, you can put those leaves to work in your garden. Fallen leaves are more than just a ...

This video shows what happens when you use mulch in the garden such as grass clippings, sugarcane, woodchip, poultry litter, cardboard, and even general garden waste. Self Sufficient Me is based on ...

If you live in an area that has received minimal precipitation recently, you're probably worried about your plants. You know they need water, but you can't control the weather, and you may even need ...

What activities should I be doing to get maximum production from my vegetables and maximum beauty from my flowers? It is obvious that we need to pay close attention to our watering with the dry ...

Diagnostics of plant issues is one role of Extension horticulturists. In this article, I’ll share some current issues we’re seeing. But first, I want to let you know after 43 years in the Platte ...