Successful pruning can improve tree health, boost flower and fruit production, and create an attractive landscape.

Heat-loving watermelons can be grown outdoors in warmer climates or in a greenhouse in areas that don’t reach those same high temperatures naturally. Wherever you grow watermelon, you strive for them ...

Prune annual herbs like basil fully before frost, but leave cold-hardy types to reseed naturally. Lightly trim woody herbs like sage and thyme; save heavy pruning for spring. Use mulch or covers to ...

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Lodi winemakers are struggling with low sugar levels in grapes, affecting demand and profits as cheap imports flood the market. ITS IT INFRASTRUCTURE. LOW SUGAR LEVELS AND GRAPES ARE LEAVING SOME LODI ...

Iowa farmers are near the end of harvest season for corn and soybean crops following yet another week of above-average temperatures in the state.While crop progress and condition reports from the U.S.

Green stem syndrome, is when parts of the soybean plant stay green through maturity and harvest. The plant usually has a green stem that is sometimes accompanied by thick, green, leathery leaves ...

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The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the planet’s hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ...

As summer draws to a close, it’s time to prepare for your garden’s harvest. Gathering herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables is a lot easier when you have the right tools available. A harvesting basket ...