While farmers plant millions acres of plants like rye and clover to boost soil health and crowd out weeds, a cover crop does the same thing in the smallest home garden. With cover crops, a vegetable ...

I was recently asked to look at a new-to-the-owner garden where Indian Paintbrush, a lovely native wildflower, was coming up in sheets. That seemed unlikely, since our native Paintbrushes (Castilleja ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Thank goodness for the rain this week. It has turned drier in the area and who would have thought with the extreme wet spring and early summer of 2019. As ...

Eighteen months ago, I covered a large portion of my backyard with the seeds of white clover (Trifolium repens), also known as Dutch clover. This is the classic clover that grows in lawns and is ...

More homeowners are taking an interest in supporting pollinators with awareness of the losses of the insects. According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, many species of bees and other pollinators, ...