Rubber mulch may seem like a low-maintenance solution, but it can heat up to dangerously high temperatures in the sun.

Mulching is always important as part of any fall gardening checklist, especially if you have newly-planted trees or shrubs.

Plastic use in food production—known as plasticulture—has transformed agriculture and aquaculture globally. Plasticulture gained momentum in the mid-20th century with the development of novel plastic ...

Mark your calendars for these upcoming home and garden events. Introduction to sheet mulching Join the Sonoma County Masters Gardeners on Sunday, June 29, at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 ...

Walter Battle shows how to lay sheet mulch, and Cathy Faust shows how to make strawberry jam. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, UT Extension Area Specialist Walter Battle ...

Microsoft 365 may get all the attention, but the classic Microsoft Office suite also gets useful additions in every release. Here’s how to use the best new features in Office 2021 and Office 2024. For ...

We have endured multiple years of drought and are probably in store for more. For many of us, it makes sense to replace all or part of our lawn area with less water-intensive plantings. If you decide ...

Strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch) is an economically significant crop across the globe prized for its flavorful and health-promoting fruits (Giampieri et al., 2015; Simpson, 2018). The area and ...

Somehow, astonishingly, it’s November. My Jack-o’-lanterns are shriveling, the holidays are speeding toward us and this month’s edition of the L.A. Times Plants newsletter is jam-packed with garden ...

On November 2, a Coindesk report on Alameda Research's balance sheet helped spark the fall of FTX. On Thursday, Sam Bankman-Fried published his version of what the balance sheet looked like in 2021 ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about replacing a lawn with lower- water alternatives. The amount of water needed to maintain a Kentucky bluegrass lawn in Colorado (and the ...