Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding—and sometimes most frustrating—plants to grow in the garden. Just as the fruit begins ...

With the recent thunderstorms, hail, and higher temperatures, growers may experience widespread bacterial disease problems in ...

Gardening isn't just about beauty. It's about pruning, failure, and cutting losses. Here are gardening lessons that apply to ...

Fungal freeloaders including leaf spots and powdered mildew can greet Oklahoma's gardeners after a wet spring. Ways do exist ...

One of my favorite spring flowers for perennials is the peony. Peonies are a long-lived perennial that you should be able to enjoy for decades. A few years after Sharon and I got married; my parents ...

In Illinois, we track heat accumulation using growing degree days. These help predict when certain insects will emerge or ...

Early and accurate plant disease detection is crucial for sustainable agriculture. This research proposes an Ensemble Residual Sequence Net (ERSN) architecture, combining LSTM and ResNet-50, for ...

I received an email from one of my readers about her Rhubarb or Rheumrhabarbarum. It seems that the stalks on her rhubarb were as thin and weak as they haveever been. Her rhubarb normally does well ...

In July, “June gloom” gives way to summer heat. Days are long. Tomatoes finally ripen. Summer fruits are warm on the tree.

Plants can't survive without water. But too much or too little causes problems. More plants have been killed by improper ...

Whether you lean sweet or savory, we have two options for a morning meal that will help keep your ticker in tip-top shape.