If you add beneficial fungus and bacteria, you may not need to have the worms. Something like H-Start or EPSI would be a good ...

The best time to prune most of our deciduous trees and shrubs is late winter. One reason is that insect pests and plant ...

With spring ever so close, the urge to have that beautiful garden color can seem nagging. Here are ways to force the start of ...

An area on the outside of a tree trunk that appears to be stained white or looks wet during summer is likely bacterial ...

Winter is a time when your trees are vulnerable, and moisture loss can damage them or worse. But there are a few ways you can ...

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What I did notice, though, was a swath of trees topped with brown leaves across the top of the hill. Some oaks, including chestnut, pin, bur, scarlet and swamp, often retain dry brown leaves in ...

Malnutrition, I saw on this trip, is a vast and under-addressed problem — but also one that we can solve if we commit to it. Nicholas Kristof became a columnist for The Times Opinion desk in ...

Don't take the beautiful, aged trees in your yard for granted. Check-in on them often, especially in winter, to identify ...

“Turbulence was and still is an unsolved problem in the sense that we cannot exactly simulate realistic flows on computers, i.e. we still need a wind tunnel to design an aircraft wing. But ...

The sound of the wind gently whispering through tree leaves during the winter might make you think you've traveled back in time by a couple of months. Why are dried, dead leaves clinging to the ...