Effective pruning also maintains a healthy and vibrant tree, boosts fruit production, and protects against pests and diseases ...

University of Florida researchers are using a combination of individual protective covers and plant growth regulators to help ...

Despite February’s often cool, damp, and dreary days, it is a harbinger that spring is only a month away and can inspire North Bay gardeners to begin planning, preparing and getting an early start ...

Have a rodent problem? It might be roof rats. It's roof rat season in Arizona again. Here's everything to know about them and how to get rid of them.

People use mothballs in many ways, but they're not always safe. To protect you and your household's health, try these alternative solutions instead.

When pistachio hulls split open before harvest, the nuts can be exposed to fungal or insect damage, which reduces profits for ...

Stone towers rise where you least expect them. Wrought iron gates open onto paths that feel borrowed from another century.

A Fallbrook couple says California state agriculture employees went onto their private property and threatened to arrest them over their fruit trees, raising concerns about how far the state will go ...

What started as a backyard dispute over pests ended with Phil and Elizabeth Rupprecht hauling out a chainsaw and cutting down 10 of their own citrus trees rather than let state crews touch them.

Integrated approach can include the use of bait stations, burrow traps, furrow fumigation, and the placement of owl boxes.

An interesting tree of our Rolling Plains region is endemic to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and has close relatives occurring as far north in the Great Plains as Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.