Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ...

Painting small rocks to look like strawberries is a good way to deter birds and squirrels from munching on your garden fruit.

The Ethics of Cats navigates the tensions between domesticity and wildness, history and the self, these poems shift fluidly ...

Some fruit trees are notorious for producing a big crop one year and a much smaller crop the next. Here's what to know and what you can do about it.

Perennials. Tall slipper plant (Pedilanthus bracteatus) is a highly drought-tolerant selection from Mexica whose bracts are suggestive of Dorothy’s footwear in “The Wizard of Oz.” These bracts are ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

Information about the nematode fauna associated with crops in Brazil is still limited, with existing research mainly concentrated in northern Brazil. As such, the primary goal of the present study was ...

It’s July, and that means it’s time to hit the rewind button and look back at the big stories from last month.

Grow it Green: Keeping fruit trees fruitful Jacqueline Thomas talks with Steph Sosinski of the UNH Cooperative Extension at Apple Hill Farm about some ways to protect and get the most from your ...

When those trees come down, they often bring down power lines and damage equipment." PECO said its added more than 1,400 additional workers to its repair crews, including teams from ComEd in Chicago.

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora) is a large South American shrub or small tree that produces a crop this time of year and makes a wonderful hedge.