A couple of years ago, my wife and I had a garden built in our back yard. It runs along our fence and is approximately 84 feet long and 8 feet deep with a fruit tree at each end. We had great success ...

Pick up a rock or a pile of old leaves, or dig in your compost heap. You’ll see them. They look like mini armadillos, and they even act like them. Sow (or pill) bugs are Ma Nature’s great digestive ...

What a spring it’s been and gardening has just begun. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension ...

Welcome to summer in Florida. Hot humid weather creates a lush tropical oasis where heat-loving plants thrive - along with the bugs. Less than 1 percent of all insects are pests, so the majority of ...

Question: I took your advice and am treating pillbugs in my garden like slugs. I have drowned them with beer but they keep coming back. My neighbor is giving me his old cans of beer. I had to dig up ...

Strawberries, on the other hand are happy with soil pH between 6 - 7, says Oregon State University's Extension Service master gardeners. (Francine Orr) When the slugs are chomping the hostas or the ...

My neighbor needed to move a pile of bark left over from a wood delivery last fall and, luckily for me, asked whether I wanted to look through it before it was moved. We were, I suppose, looking for ...