Shoveling snow onto garden beds can protect plants during winter. Snow acts as a blanket, insulating the soil and preventing ...

It’s time to put up your new gardening calendar and give yourself reminders of some of the jobs you’ll need to do through the seasons. Follow this month-by-month bullet point guide to some of the ...

This short video describes how my quail turns mulch into an awesome fertiliser/mulch for my fruit and vegetable gardens. Garden mulch can be expensive but I like to get two uses out of my mulch by ...

Here's a very interesting lemon growing method I saw when travelling overseas in Southern Italy (Sorrento). A lemon farm ...

Whether you are out of rock salt or you never purchased it, you can still use some household items to melt the ice and snow.

Mulch helps suppress weeds, keeps soil moist, and helps regulate soil temperatures. Adding a second layer of mulch after the first frost in the fall will offer plants additional winter protection.

A hard freeze is headed for San Antonio this weekend, and it could undo hours of yard work — and money — homeowners have ...

Meet the roly-poly pill bug, a backyard “bug” that is actually a crustacean cousin of shrimp and crabs living on dry land.

Homeowners who recall the Polar Vortex almost exactly two years ago are finding dire shortages of supplies to prepare their fruit trees, palm trees, and other e ...

For instance, researchers use the backyard sightings that users submit to Project FeederWatch —a joint program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada —to track long-term changes in ...

Have you ever wondered why some gardens bounce back so quickly after winter while others struggle? The secret often comes down to the mulch you choose when the cold sets in. Winter mulching does more ...

Once temperatures drop, garden maintenance usually slows down, but there are many plants that are still responding to changing conditions in the weather. Behind the scenes, roots and soil continue to ...