The heat, humidity and random afternoon thunderstorms of Florida summers have arrived on time this year. This can be a blessing for many gardens and landscapes as the daily rains limit our need for ...

Q: I have two oleander hedges getting about six hours of sunlight each day. The leaves are yellowing rapidly and dropping from the plant and getting worse as they get older. My lawn sprinklers water ...

Even with no rain, your garden can still flourish. According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, this summer is projected to be one of the hottest ever. With extreme heat, dry weather usually follows, and ...

JAMIESON, Ore. — Corey Maag’s mid-1990s shift to drip irrigation made him an early adopter of the method now common in the sizable southeast Oregon/southwest Idaho onion growing region. “We kind of ...

Question: I use Jobe spikes to fertilize my fruit and nut trees. Last year I fertilized in mid-February and when I went to fertilize again at the end of May, I noticed the February spikes were not ...

The best fertilizer may be the footsteps of the farmer, as the Chinese proverb says. But all of the fertilizer and shoe leather in the world won’t raise so much as a hill of beans without water. Just ...

This week, the question comes from yours truly (i.e., Dr. Marisa Thompson, regular writer of this column). I’ve heard about subsurface drip as an improved way to irrigate turfgrass, so I invited NMSU ...

Shadow Creek golf course in North Las Vegas, Nevada, features 100 acres of naturalized areas comprised of tall grasses and more than 6,000 planted pine trees. The irrigation system in these ...