The first week of March has early blooms popping up all over as crocus, winter pansies and early flowering trees and shrubs sing, “This bud’s for you.” Some of us might indeed be drunk with delight ...

A recent test has shown that drip irrigation is more efficient than furrow irrigation when growing sugar beets. In California, sugar beets are mostly grown only in the low-desert region of the ...

Urea is a common nitrogen (N) fertilizer source for many crops across Minnesota. Sales statistics show that urea is now the most popular N fertilizer source in the state, overtaking anhydrous ammonia ...

Q:I attended your talk "Harvest to Kitchen" at the S.F. Flower and Garden Show. It was wonderful. You put a recipe for Parsley and Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto on your blog, but you mentioned two other ...

How are your vegetables growing? This has been a strange spring. Record May rainfall resulted in some area gardens lush with growth while others struggled with the excessive moisture. The heavy ...

Blueberries do best with an acid fertilizer. Now (Feb.) is the time to fertilize fruit trees and bushes. Photo courtesy of the LSU AgCenter Fertilize grape vines, hardy fruit trees, such as apple, ...

How are your vegetables growing? It has been one strange year, but then again what’s new? The season started out warm and dry and has now swung to cooler and moist. The recent rains and lush growth ...