ONE of the best things about the festive season is the delicious Christmas dinner we get to tuck into. And the incredible amount of food we have during our feast usually means we have enough left ...

Fertilize winter pansies every two weeks with 15-30-15 fertilizer. "The phosphorus (30), the middle number, stimulates root ...

Insects and mites can rapidly develop into high populations on indoor plants. Many are quite small and go unnoticed until a ...

Good sanitation practices, like cleaning your gardening tools and containers, can avoid this. Chives and other members of the ...

Leave a 2 to 3-foot-wide space between vegetable beds. Cover walkways with mulch or plant a suitable ground cover. It’s more pleasant to walk on a covered surface after heavy rain. Start working on ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network Look closely at this image, stripped of ...

Close-ups of insects aphid pests. Image by Valerii_Honcharuk via Depositphotos. Black aphids on cucumbers. Image by Real_life via Depositphotos. Aphids are common garden insect that can cause ...

This aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum) arrived in Britain in the 18th century and is now very common. Woolly aphids feed on apples and ornamentals that are closely related, such as crab apples, chaenomeles, ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we currently discard around 290 million scrap tires annually. As a way to resolve this excess waste, shredded rubber tires are now sought after ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Firefighters battled a large mulch fire in Fulton Township Wednesday evening. The fire was reported around 7:09 p.m. on 675 Nottingham Road, according to emergency ...