Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vegetable garden beds covered with plastic to warm the soil - FrankHH/Shutterstock Mealybugs are relentless pests that drain ...

“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.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) - Remember the start of this year’s growing season in East Texas? More rain than we had seen in a good while, and then sometime in July, the rain shut off. That rainy weather ...

Soil solarization is a weed control method, based on time and temperature, where the heat of the sun is trapped under clear plastic. Moist soil is heated and the resulting hot and humid environment ...