LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) - Wouldn’t it be great if our brutal summer heat could make a better vegetable garden? Even more so, what if the oppressive heat could make gardening easier? It can, with a seldom ...

“Oh, my goodness, I feel like I’m cooking!” exclaims my 9-year-old as he helps me pull weeds from a small plant bed. It was still morning but already above 80 F, and the humidity was in full force.

Weeds are much easier to manage before they flower and set seeds. Removing young plants by hand or garden hoe, reduces your garden plants competition for water and nutrients while also reducing new ...

Are you looking for a low-labor, chemical-free method to help eradicate weeds and soil-residing pests in the garden? Solarization and occultation, often referred to as “tarping,” may be just what ...

If you garden in Florida, sooner or later you're going to come up against root-knot nematodes, microscopic roundworms that live in the soil and feed on plant roots. They can devastate many crops _ ...

Soil solarization, a process that uses solar radiation to rid the soil of pests, is most common in regions with high solar radiation and high temperatures during the summer season. An alternative to ...