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Gardening – the art of killing weeds and bugs to grow flowers and crops for animals and birds to eat.” - Henry Beard and Roy ...

WITH spring finally here and the weather heating up, if you want to ensure your garden is guest-ready, you’ve come to the ...

Saving the leftovers of a popular fruit could be the answer to your gardening woes if you have slugs eating your plants and ...

Strawberries are a popular soft fruit to grow in the garden, with the plants producing abundant harvests of sweet, juicy ...

In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a ...

While most people believe that aphids on flowers must be fought for the blooms to thrive, the opposite is true. Discover why ...

Cabbage ( Brassica oleracea var. capitata) is a versatile vegetable—it's a beautiful addition to a garden and a tasty ...

Oh, the beauty of blooming! I actually worked on a commercial organic flower farm for two years, so I’ve known many kinds of ...

Farmers across America face a counterintuitive problem, according to new research. The very chemicals they spray to kill ...

They work as hard as bees to pollinate our plants, often look and sound like bees but have no sting – yet hoverflies remain ...