"A good rule of thumb is if you can fit a pencil into a crack, hole or opening, a mouse can get through it. The mice might ...

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You walk outside with your morning coffee, ready to check on those tomatoes that were almost ripe yesterday. Instead, you ...

We asked Neil Sperry, the North Texas horticulturalist and longtime Star-Telegram columnist, how to prepare our yards. He had a lot to say.

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Don't toss your amaryllis plant away once the blooms fade. Here's how to get new growth from its bulb, whether you want it to ...

Question: My garden is being overrun by uninvited cats. They dig up my raised bed vegetables, defecate in the soil and chew on my plants. What can I do to keep them out? Do you have a gardening or ...

Young cacao trees stand in an unlikely spot on the northeastern slopes of the Waianae Range, growing on a windswept point overlooking Oahu’s North Shore. “Our soil, in the summer, becomes a powdery ...