Brown and green plant material provide your compost bin with much-needed nutrients. However, certain plants can contaminate ...

Plant diseases are unavoidable — especially in central North Carolina, where our summers are extra hot and extra humid. But that doesn’t necessarily mean our plants are ruined. The News & Observer ...

With the cool, wet weather comes the bane of gardeners — plant diseases. Diseases are generally bad news, whether it’s black spot on your roses, rust on your rhododendrons, downy mildew on your ...

June is prime time for that first main harvest of the many vegetable crops you planted back in late March through April. You did plant a selection of cool-season crops, right? If so, the list of ...

Both are caused by fungi, but they are not spreading between these two trees; serviceberries don’t get black knot and plums ...

Clear out spent vegetable beds, then lightly turn the soil, incorporating compost, well-rotted manure and, if indicated by a ...

I am not complaining about the weather. On second thought, I am going to complain about the weather. I can’t take much more of this cool, cloudy stuff. Bring on the hot times in our region. As ...

Gardening is a year-round job. You can't stop, even in fall, when most plants are dying back or going dormant. Fall ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about controlling the spread of infectious diseases in humans. How often do we consider that some of the same principles can be applied in our gardens?

Q: I have one hopseed bush out of 20 that was planted about seven years ago and died about a week ago after the rain. I am watering them deeply only once a week. Before the rain, they were all doing ...

Math was not my favorite subject in school, so I have always been a little wary of mathematical concepts. But growing roses introduced me to the disease triangle, which is one bit of geometry triangle ...