The hot and humid days we have been having sure makes it hard to want to be in the garden. The plants still need tending though, whether you are a flower gardener or a vegetable gardener. I know for myself, I am too hot, too sticky, and just plain sick of gardening. All winter I dream of ...

I finally can cross an item off of my outside to-do list: I finished redoing the rock and fabric landscaping around my house. My husband and I ended the project by removing the rock on the west side of the garage to fill in around the house. The plan was to seed the area by the garage with ...

A man went to a doctor. He had a carrot in each nostril and a zucchini in each ear. “I know what your issue is,” the doctor said. “You aren’t eating right.” One of my kids told me that joke several years ago. I am feeling like the man in the joke. I have zucchini coming out of ...

Lloyd Groff Copeman is credited with inventing the electric stove over 100 years ago. He founded Copeman Electric Stove in 1912. Five years later, in 1917, he sold this company to the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He had several other inventions on the back burner that were starting to ...

If you happen to notice semi-circular or circular notches in your plant leaves, that would be the work of leafcutter bees. These small bees are important native insects of the western United States. They are often essential pollinators of native wild plants, as they are 15 times better ...

Parents of teenagers often say, “My kids are eating me out of house and home. I can’t believe how much they eat.” Just be glad you are not feeding a hornworm. They eat four times their weight – every day! Imagine if your 150-pound teenage boy had the appetite of a hornworm and you ...