SNOW PEA PICKIN': Pick snow peas in the vegetable garden frequently. Ideally, the pods should be harvested when flat before ...

The insects responsible for pollinating cacao’s tiny flowers are, themselves, also tiny, in order to access the flower’s reproductive structures. Biting midges from the Ceratopogonidae family and gall ...

Maharashtra deputy CM Eknath Shinde has called on all residents of Thane, especially students, to plant at least one tree and ...

To do this, find an actively growing but slightly matured shoot on a lemon tree and cut a small section just below the leaf.

Pruning is essential for attractive, healthy trees and shrubs and improves the quality of flowers, fruit and foliage. The ...

If you can't "learn to live with them," Neil Sperry suggests a ground cover that makes mowing around them unnecessary ...

Now is the time for some winter pruning on ornamental shrubs and trees. From December to late March is the perfect time to ...

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

Hazelnuts have long been prized as a tasty and nutritious food. Found in forests statewide in Missouri, they are a favorite wild edible for many people. Squirrels and other small mammals feast on the ...

These pretty, early spring flowers are the first to pop up in the garden. That’s what makes hellebores, winter heath and ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

During their youth, the trees can be sensitive to frost, but they become more tolerant once they reach a height of six to ...